Metro Tuesday March 2 Work Session Item: Auditor Identified Problems with Follow Up on Functional Plan Reporting Changes.

The Tuesday March 2nd. Metro Council work session includes an agenda item to discuss a just (Feb 22nd.) released Metro Auditor's report on Metro's failure to follow up on changes in performance reporting for the Urban Growth functional plan, following a Metro suspension of performance reporting in November of 2007. (This included suspension of reporting of changes in the supply of affordable housing units).

The Auditor's report can be found HERE.

The last annual performance reporting from Metro on the Urban Growth Functional Plan was published in September 2005, reporting progress as of 2004; a Metro web site with that Urban Growth Report functional plan compliance reporting is HERE.

The Metro 2004 compliance report HERE notes that as of 2004:

"Compliance for Title 7 [The Affordable Housing Title'] was at 62% and only four local governments have met all of the Title 7 reporting requirements."

The Metro response to the poor rate of reporting was to adopt new reduced reporting requirements for local governments, including reporting of changes in the supply of affordable housing. HOWEVER, Metro failed to follow up on this reporting requirement and effectively stopped any reporting on changes in housing supply by suspending reporting in November of 2007 (for a planned two year period).

The Metro Council packet for the meeting is HERE; the meeting is scheduled to start at 1PM, with this agenda item scheduled for discussion at 1:15 PM.

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.