Office of Inspector General – BGA Policy 2025 Budget Snapshot

Departmental Highlights

Snapshot: Appropriation & Staffing Changes from 2024 Budget

• The OIG has a mandatory budget floor to ensure that it cannot be underfunded. Since 2015, the OIG budget has been required to be at least 0.14% of annual appropriations, not including pension payments and intergovernmental agreements entered into by the OIG. (However, even though the city lumps pension and benefit costs together in the finance general category rather than breaking them out by department, OIG's pension and benefits costs are considered part of the department's budgets for purposes of the floor calculation only.)
• OIG added new budgeted positions for a senior equity officer, finance associate, and director of special investigations. Two project managers, two analyst positions, an investigator, and an administrative assistant were removed from the budgeted positions.
• Most year-over-year appropriation changes at OIG were relatively modest, with an additional $342,614 in salaries and wages on payroll the largest increase and -$327,234 and -$106,053 declines in the software maintenance and licensing and IT maintenance categories, respectively, the largest decreases.

Historical Context

The Office of Inspector General has expanded several times in both administrative scope and budgeted staff and appropriations over the years, as various updates to its establishing ordinance strengthened the role of the department.

The OIG has a mandatory budget floor to ensure that it cannot be underfunded. Since 2015, the OIG budget has been required to be at least 0.14% of annual appropriations, not including pension payments and intergovernmental agreements entered into by the OIG. (However, even though the city lumps pension and benefit costs together in the finance general category rather than breaking them out by department, OIG's pension and benefits costs are considered part of the department's budgets for purposes of the floor calculation only.)

From 2011-2024, the department budget grew at an average rate of 10.9% per year. Departmental budgets overall increased an average of 6.1% per year over the same time period, while the total city budget including Finance General appropriations grew at an average rate of 8.5% annually.

The department's budgeted workforce grew at a rate of roughly 5.7% annually from 2011-2024. Overall budgeted positions for the city remained relatively flat across the same time period, with minor year-to-year fluctuations averaging out to an overall growth rate of 0.04%.

The 2024 budget proposal holds OIG's budget almost flat, with a 0.12% increase over the previous year's appropriations and a net decrease of three budgeted positions.

Staffing

OIG added new budgeted positions for a senior equity officer, finance associate, and director of special investigations.

Two project managers, two analyst positions, an investigator, and an administrative assistant were removed from the budgeted positions.

Appropriations

The OIG is primarily funded through the corporate fund, with smaller but substantial appropriations from the sewer, water, and airport funds as well.

Largest Appropriations

The bulk of OIG's expenses are personnel-related, with salaries and wages making up the bulk of the department's budget.

Change from Previous Year

Most year-over-year appropriation changes at OIG were relatively modest, with an additional $342,614 in salaries and wages on payroll the largest increase and -$327,234 and -$106,053 declines in the software maintenance and licensing and IT maintenance categories, respectively, the largest decreases.

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