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Outside Audit Finds Santa Monica Far Outspent Peer Cities for Services

Outside Audit Finds Santa Monica Far Outspent Peer Cities for Services

01/18/2018 5:18 PM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

January 18, 2018 -- From police protection to City libraries, planning, housing and buses, the City of Santa Monica generally far outspent comparable peers in Southern California on a per capita basis in the last fiscal year, an outside audit has found.

A draft of the audit, which was presented to the City Audit Subcommittee in November, found that Santa Monica residents paid more than $900 each for policing in the past fiscal year, more than $800 for public bus service and nearly $250 for “facilities maintenance.”

Preliminary findings from the audit by Moss Adams shows the operating costs per capita for thec city of 93,834 almost always far exceed the 11 other municipalities used for comparison purposes across a wide swath of City services.