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Join us for a double-header Council Session tomorrow!. 4 PM: Special Session on Homelessness Response including our new audit on the Homeless Response Team. 6 PM: Regular Meeting where the Budget Office has an information item on the Financial Condition audit recommendations.

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There is now no publicly accessible inspections data on their website.

🍽️ Restaurant Inspections Update:. While the Environmental Health Division has made progress on some recommendations, the Division removed the inspections data from the Open Data Portal taking a step back on transparency.

Tune in for tomorrow's City Council meeting @ 6 PM to hear more about our FY 2026 Audit Plan and updates on the Restaurant Inspections audit. Visit the @berkeleyca.gov website for more information on attending the meeting virtually or in-person:

RT @EastBayTimes: Berkely’s Homeless Response Team has room for improvement, audit finds

📌The audit includes six recommendations and recommends annual progress updates to ensure improvements in coordination, transparency, and outcome tracking. 📘 Read the full report from the Berkeley City Auditor’s Office: 10/10.

🗣️City Auditor @JennyTheAuditor:“Addressing homelessness is complex. These recommendations support the HRT in building on its work by improving coordination, data sharing, and public transparency.” 9/10.

✅ To strengthen the City’s response, the audit recommends:.• Documenting coordination and data procedures.• Using a shared mapping tool.• Expanding public reporting of outcomes.• Assessing staffing needs 8/10.

🏙️From Feb 2022 to Jan 2024, Berkeley saw a 45% reduction in unsheltered homelessness—a major milestone driven by City efforts, including voter-supported tax measures. 7/10.

📊While the HRT tracked some outcomes like trash removal, key measures—such as shelter enrollments and coordinated entry assessments—were not consistently reported. Public reports were also hard to find. 6/10.

📉The team also didn’t have written procedures for collecting data on encampments, which limited the information they had to guide their work. 5/10.

🚫The HRT paused some coordination with service providers during legal action and had limited access to Alameda County’s shared data systems used by other service providers. 4/10.

📉The HRT operated within a complex regional system with limited city and county resources, including staffing, equipment, and legal constraints. These limitations made it harder to respond to encampments and connect residents to services. 3/10.

🏙️ There were 844 unhoused residents in Berkeley during the audit period but only 320 shelter beds based on 2024 Alameda County and shelter data. The City managed access to just 56 beds; Alameda County managed the rest. 2/10.

📢New Audit released today:.“Homeless Response Team: Opportunities Exist to Strengthen Procedures and Better Track Outcomes” finds that resource limitations, coordination challenges, and limited outcome reporting impacted encampment response efforts.📝1/10

Our FY 2026 Audit Plan is out!. In the next year, we plan to audit:.🚪 Homelessness (report to be released in July),.📑 Contracts,.🏘️ Rent Stabilization Board, and.💵 Berkeley's fiscal condition. Read more at

Today we observe #Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of hundreds of years of slavery in the United States. Last weekend, our Berkeley community celebrated with the 38th Annual Berkeley Juneteenth Festival, the longest continually running celebration of its kind in California.

Congratulations to all the audit offices that also won this year! 🎊. This is our office's fourth award since @JennyTheAuditor became Berkeley’s City Auditor. Check out all our award-winning reports at

🎉@ALGA_Gov recognized our Restaurant Inspections audit as one of the top of 2024! 🏅. The judges acknowledged our team's impact and rigor, awarding our audit the "distinguished" recognition. Check out the report @