City Council Audit Subcommittee
The Piedmont City Council directed its Audit Subcommittee to examine the City's handling of the construction of the Piedmont Hills Underground Assessment District. This page is designed to keep the public informed of the Subcommittee's work.
City Council Audit Subcommittee meetings are broadcast on KCOM and are also available for viewing on the Streaming Video page, under the heading Other Public Meetings.
If you would like updates on the work of the City Council Audit Subcommittee, please send a message to webmaster@ci.piedmont.ca.us and specify that you'd like information on the City Council Audit Subcommittee's work.
 
Roster
Mayor John Chiang
Councilmember Jeff Wieler
Judge Ken Kawaichi, Resident Representative
 
Draft Preliminary Report
- Draft Preliminary Report contains edits ordered at the August 23rd meeting
 
Meeting Materials
- 03/31/2010 - Agenda, Scope of Evaluation Process, correspondence received, and Minutes
- 05/13/2010 - Agenda, Memo from Vice Mayor Chiang, California Code Provisions, Flow Chart, and Minutes
- 07/08/2010 - Agenda, Request from League of Women Voters Task Force, correspondence received, and Minutes
- 07/21/2010 - Agenda and Minutes
- 01/26/2011 - Agenda, Draft Report section from Mayor Barbieri, Draft Report section from Vice Mayor Chang, Draft Report section from Judge Kawaichi, correspondence received, and Minutes
- 03/15/2011 - Agenda, Correspondence, and Minutes
- 08/23/2011 - Agenda, Draft Final Report, Judge Kawaichi's Preliminary Comments on the Draft Final Report, Draft Final Report with edits by Vice Mayor Chiang, Judge Kawaichi's Specific Recommendations by Topic, correspondence received, and Minutes
- 09/22/2011 - Agenda, Draft Preliminary Report, correspondence received, and Minutes.
 
Primary Source Documents
- Memo to City Council on 20A Funds - June 30, 2006
- Memo to City Council on 20A Funds - May 7, 2007
- Underground Utility Policy - 07/15/2007 Revision
- Final Engineer's Report for Piedmont Hills Underground Assessment District - 05/04/2009
- Piedmont Hills Underground Assessment District Bid Documents Please Note: This is a large document and will take several minutes to download
- Contract with Valley Utility
- Change Orders 1-25
- Change Order Summaries and Accompanying Emails These documents were used by the city to track the "credits" for the project. Each summary has a line titled “Less Contract Items Deducted” or “Less Estimated Contract Items Deducted”. This is the line item used to calculate the “credit”. On most summaries no worksheet was attached, however, please note the handwritten material attached to the October 12, 2009 and December 11, 2009 submissions.
- Payment Requests 01-10 Please Note: This is a large document and will take several minutes to download
- Payment Requests 11-20 Please Note: This is a large document and will take several minutes to download
- Payment Requests 21-30 Please Note: This is a large document and will take several minutes to download
- Payment Requests 31-38 Please Note: This is a large document and will take several minutes to download
- Payment Requests 39-41
- Payment Requests 42-44
- Payment Requests 45-47
- Payment Requests 48-49
- Payment Requests 50-59
- Payment Requests 60-61
- Payment Requests 62-64
- Retention Payment Request 1
- Retention Payment Request 2
- Bid Received from Ranger Pipeline
- Bid Received from Valley Utility Services
- Bid Received from Synergy Project Management
- Bid Received from Underground Construction
- Bid Received from Smith Denison Construction
- Bid Received from St. Francis Electric
- Bid Received from Tennyson Electric
- Bid Received from Angelo Utilities
- Bid Received from MCH Electric
- Exhibit 1-A(1)
- Exhibit 1-A(2)
- Exhibit 1-B(1)
- Exhibit 1-B(2)
- Exhibit 1-C
- Exhibit 1-D(1)
- Exhibit 1-D(2)
- Exhibit 1-E
- Exhibit 1-F(1)
- Exhibit 1-F(2)
- Exhibit 1-G(1)
- Exhibit 1-G(2)
- Exhibit 1-H(1)
- Exhibit 1-H(2)
- Exhibit 1-I(1)
- Exhibit 1-I(2)
- Exhibit 1-J(1)
- Exhibit 1-J(2)
- Exhibit 1-K
- Exhibit 8-A(1)
- Exhibit 8-A(2)
- Exhibit 8-B(1)
- Exhibit 8-B(2)
- Exhibit 8-C(1)
- Exhibit 8-C(2)
- Exhibit 11-A
- Exhibit 11-B
- Exhibit 11-C
- Exhibit 12-A(1)
- Exhibit 12-A(2)
- Exhibit 13-A
- Exhibit 13-B
- Exhibit 14-A
- Exhibit 14-B
- Exhibit 15
- Exhibit 16
- Exhibit 17-A
- Exhibit 17-B
- Exhibit 18 (Emails Regarding Engineering Services
- Exhibit 19 (Piedmont Hills Sequence of Events
- Exhibit 20 (Contingency Calculations - Sept. 2009)
- Judge Kawaichi's Analysis of League of Women Voters Questions

