Report 2007-037 Recommendation 3 Responses

Report 2007-037: Department of Housing and Community Development: Awards of Housing Bond Funds Have Been Timely and Complied With the Law, but Monitoring of the Use of Funds Has Been Inconsistent (Release Date: September 2007)

Recommendation #3 To: Housing and Community Development, Department of

The department should continue its efforts to consistently monitor sponsors' use of housing bond funds by giving high priority to finalizing and implementing monitoring procedures for the CalHome and Emergency Housing programs, which do not currently have such procedures in place.

1-Year Agency Response

The department stated that it has finalized the design of its monitoring program of the CalHome program and that on-site reviews by CalHome staff are continuing. In regards to the Emergency Housing Program, the department says that in January 2008, it finalized its monitoring procedures and that on-site monitoring has begun. (See 2009-406 p. 241)

California State Auditor's Assessment of 1-Year Status: Fully Implemented

All Recommendations in 2007-037

Agency responses received after June 2013 are posted verbatim.