Report 2018-037 Recommendation 12 Responses

Report 2018-037: California Department of Housing and Community Development: Its Oversight of Housing Bond Funds Remains Inconsistent (Release Date: September 2018)

Recommendation #12 To: Housing and Community Development, Department of

To ensure that it maximizes the benefit of the funds it has invested in CAPES's development and to support its ongoing efforts to improve CAPES's usability, HCD should, by January 1, 2019, formally direct staff working on those programs to enter data into CAPES and then use those data to manage the contracts and staff workloads associated with the programs.

60-Day Agency Response

Formal direction to all DFA management has been provided. In addition, HCD has updated the user guide and mandatory training is scheduled for each section. Bi-weekly operational meetings have been initiated and CAPES data is being utilized to inform management. Each quarter, additional reports will be incorporated into the meetings for discussion and enhancement of ongoing management oversite and monitoring of programs.

California State Auditor's Assessment of 60-Day Status: Fully Implemented

All Recommendations in 2018-037

Agency responses received are posted verbatim.