Report 2012-037 Recommendations
When an audit is completed and a report is issued, auditees must provide the State Auditor with information regarding their progress in implementing recommendations from our reports at three intervals from the release of the report: 60 days, six months, and one year. Additionally, Senate Bill 1452 (Chapter 452, Statutes of 2006), requires auditees who have not implemented recommendations after one year, to report to us and to the Legislature why they have not implemented them or to state when they intend to implement them. Below, is a listing of each recommendation the State Auditor made in the report referenced and a link to the most recent response from the auditee addressing their progress in implementing the recommendation and the State Auditor's assessment of auditee's response based on our review of the supporting documentation.
Recommendations in Report 2012-037: Department of Housing and Community Development: Awards of Housing Bond Funds Are Appropriate, but Cash Balances Are High and Monitoring Continues to Need Improvement (Release Date: October 2012)
| Recommendations to Finance, Department of | ||
|---|---|---|
| Number | Recommendation | Status |
| 3 | Going forward, to the extent that Finance or HCD believes the State needs to issue bonds in excess of cash needs, it should document an analysis demonstrating the appropriateness of the bond sale amount and the circumstances. |
Fully Implemented |
| Recommendations to Housing and Community Development, Department of | ||
|---|---|---|
| Number | Recommendation | Status |
| 1 | To ensure that it does not exceed the maximum amount specified in state law for administrative costs for the BEGIN Program, HCD should continue to reevaluate, as appropriate, its administrative support costs projection and continue to monitor its future costs. |
Fully Implemented |
| 2 | Going forward, to the extent that Finance or HCD believes the State needs to issue bonds in excess of cash needs, it should document an analysis demonstrating the appropriateness of the bond sale amount and the circumstances. |
Fully Implemented |
| 4 | HCD should continue its efforts to monitor sponsors that receive awards of housing bond funds by requiring staff to follow its procedures related to centrally tracking advances to sponsors under the CalHome Program. |
Fully Implemented |
| 5 | HCD should continue its efforts to monitor sponsors that receive awards of housing bond funds by ensuring that it receives, reviews, and centrally tracks required status reports from sponsors under its CalHome and BEGIN programs. |
Fully Implemented |
| 6 | HCD should continue its efforts to monitor sponsors that receive awards of housing bond funds by, upon finalizing monitoring procedures for the BEGIN Program, ensuring that staff implement and follow them. |
Fully Implemented |
| 7 | As it relates to selecting which sponsors to monitor, HCD should continue its efforts to monitor sponsors that receive awards of housing bond funds by adopting a risk-based, on-site monitoring approach for its CalHome and BEGIN programs. For the CalHome Program, HCD should evaluate the criteria in its risk assessment tool and require staff to use a centralized tracking log for on-site monitoring visits, which should indicate when findings are resolved. |
Fully Implemented |