Report 2006-108 Recommendation 5 Responses

Report 2006-108: California Institute for Regenerative Medicine: It Has a Strategic Plan, but It Needs to Finish Developing Grant-Related Policies and Continue Strengthening Management Controls to Ensure Policy Compliance and Cost Containment (Release Date: February 2007)

Recommendation #5 To: Regenerative Medicine, California Institute for

To provide increased accountability over the grants award process, the institute should ensure that the grants review working group follows the new procedures to record its votes to recommend funding for stem cell research grants, and that it maintains those records.

6-Month Agency Response

In 2006 the institute developed new procedures designed to ensure every voting action is recorded. Shortly after, it implemented those procedures during its grants working group meetings held during November 28 through November 30, 2006, and January 8 through January 10, 2007. The institute now retains these records as part of its documentation of the grant award process. (See 2008-406 p. 196)

California State Auditor's Assessment of 6-Month Status: Fully Implemented

All Recommendations in 2006-108

Agency responses received after June 2013 are posted verbatim.