Report 2018-110 Recommendation 10 Responses

Report 2018-110: City of Lincoln: Financial Mismanagement, Insufficient Accountability, and Lax Oversight Threaten the City's Stability (Release Date: March 2019)

Recommendation #10 To: Lincoln, City of

To ensure transparency to the public, beginning with its fiscal year 2019-20 budget, Lincoln should specify in its annual budget the amount that it intends to spend for the use of municipal utilities--water, sewer, and solid waste--and the funds that it intends to use to pay for these costs.

6-Month Agency Response

The adopted 2019-2020 Annual Budget, includes a separate line item for each fund that pays for municipal utility use.

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

60-Day Agency Response

The draft 2019/2020 Annual Budget complies with this recommendation. The budget will not be adopted until either the first of second City Council meeting in June 2019 and as such, this recommendation will not be fully implemented until such time.

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

All Recommendations in 2018-110

Agency responses received are posted verbatim.