Follow-Up on DOB Elevator Inspections
Summary
The City of Chicago Office of Inspector General has completed a follow-up to its October 2014 audit of the Department of Buildings’ compliance with the annual elevator inspection requirements set forth in the Municipal Code of Chicago § 13-20-100.
Executive Summary
The purpose of the 2014 audit was to determine the completion rates of annual elevator inspections for 2013, the timeliness of follow-up inspections, the completeness of inspection fee records, and the effectiveness of DOB audits of inspections performed by private inspectors under the Department’s Annual Inspection Certification (AIC) program. Our audit found that,
• DOB and AIC inspectors inspected only 33.9% of the buildings requiring annual elevator inspections in 2013;
• DOB did not routinely conduct follow-up inspections to ensure timely correction of elevator inspection violations;
• DOB failed to create fee records for 18.0% of completed elevator inspections performed by DOB staff, resulting in estimated unbilled inspection revenue of $50,200 over the course of a year;
• DOB had a backlog of 1,004 paper inspection records that had not been recorded in the DOB computer system as of January 2014, representing delayed billings of $186,155; and
• DOB did not use a statistically valid sampling methodology to select AIC inspections for audit.
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