State & Local Reports

The City of Chicago Office of Inspector General (OIG) has completed an audit of the Department of Streets and Sanitation’s (DSS) enforcement of recycling requirements for commercial and high-density residential buildings (i.e., those with five or more units). The objective of the audit was to determine if DSS ensures that building owners are providing collection services required by the Chicago Recycling Ordinance. In addition, the audit evaluated DSS’ enforcement of reporting requirements for the City’s licensed private haulers—companies engaged in hauling refuse and recyclables from commercial and high-density residential buildings. The required annual reports identify a hauler’s customers, catalog the total amounts and types of materials hauled, and specify which facilities received them.Based on the audit results, OIG concluded that DSS does not ensure that commercial and high-density residential building owners provide recycling services. In addition, DSS does not ensure that private haulers submit complete, accurate, and timely reports detailing the buildings they served, and the amount and type of materials hauled. This data would be useful to the City for establishing recycling goals, monitoring progress towards these goals, and determining waste diversion rates. While recent changes in the global marketplace for recyclable materials have presented challenges for municipal programs, other cities are adapting rather than abandoning recycling altogether.

New York City is one of the world’s premier shopping destinations, topping “best of” lists and drawing visitors from across the globe. The retail sector is a vital part of New York City’s economic and social landscape, with businesses ranging from corner grocery stores to renowned department stores in locations across the City, from neighborhood commercial areas to Manhattan’s major retail corridors. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the retail trade sector unevenly, with online retailers and some essential businesses experiencing growth and other large retail segments seeing falling revenues. The impact has been most obvious in Manhattan, where foot traffic in key corridors initially fell by more than 90 percent and remains below 50 percent of its 2019 levels as tourists, commuters, office workers and residents have responded to pandemic-related shutdowns and public health concerns.

The primary objective of this report is to show Missouri's spending of federal assistance in the month of October 2020 for the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) emergency and the cumulative financial activity since the state began receiving funding in April 2020.

The primary objective of this report is to summarize the unemployment benefits and relief received by Missouri citizens, government entities, and nonprofit organizations related to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) emergency from declaration of the emergency through October 2020. Through October 31, 2020, more than 500,000 Missouri citizens have received assistance totaling nearly $3.8 billion from at least one of the unemployment benefit programs

In accordance with Revised Code of Washington 43.88.027, the Office of Financial Management has prepared this Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) of the state of Washington for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has changed our lives in ways we neverimagined and created much economic uncertainty in its wake.Government-imposed closures and restrictions necessary to prevent widespreadcommunity transmission of the virus have also wreaked havoc on our economy and willhave a lasting impact on state finances. While the federal government provided morethan a billion dollars in pandemic relief to Delaware, our state, like others, has beenmostly on its own to develop mitigation strategies.In July 2020, I led a multistate taskforce to develop a consistent tool for fiscalwatchdogs to assess how each state has approached data collection, reporting, andmonitoring of coronavirus cases, both individually and collectively. The intent was toprovide a way for states to determine the quality of the data they use to make policydecisions, take health actions, and where to invest resources to control virus spread.The Auditor’s Office is currently working together with the Department of Health andHuman Services (DHSS) to undertake this important engagement.Since ensuring data quality is vital to successfully mitigating the health and economic impacts of the pandemic, I felt itnecessary to find other ways to assess the performance of Delaware’s pandemic response. This special report provides acomprehensive review of Delaware’s data dashboard that tracks and analyses coronavirus case data. It comparesDelaware’s dashboard to other states’ dashboards and against 15 indicators that a group led by former CDC Director, Dr.Thomas Frieden, deemed essential for success. The Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health and theAmerican Public Health Association have also endorsed these indicators.My report focuses on the state’s response in the early stages of the pandemic – from the first reported positive case inMarch through June 30, 2020. However, we acknowledge that Delaware has made tremendous improvements since thisperiod. Although we conducted a statewide survey of the long-term care community and engaged with DHSS staff for thisproject, our research was mainly limited to data and materials available online.State officials and health professionals rely on Delaware’s dashboard to make policy decisions. Our hope is that thefindings and recommendations contained in this report help improve ours.Thank you for the opportunity to serve you.Sincerely,Kathy McGuiness, RPh, CFE

The purpose of this document is to describe the general regulatory and internal control framework the City of Sacramento will operate under for the City’s COVID-19 response and all COVID-19 related activities. This document is an essential resource for the City as it identifies key COVID-19 regulatory and internal control information that can aid in maximizing the City’s eligibility for State and Federal resources. This document is a general guide for the City to use.

The purpose of this document is to describe the general regulatory and internal control framework the City of Sacramento will operate under for the City’s COVID-19 response and all COVID-19 related activities. This document is an essential resource for the City as it identifies key COVID-19 regulatory and internal control information that can aid in maximizing the City’s eligibility for State and Federal resources. This document is a general guide for the City to use.