Report 2020-111 Recommendation 6 Responses
Report 2020-111: Los Angeles Community College District Personnel Commission: Its Inconsistent Practices and Inadequate Policies Adversely Affect District Employees and Job Candidates, Leading to Concerns About the Fairness of Its Decisions (Release Date: May 2021)
Recommendation #6 To: Los Angeles Community College District
To ensure that its examination process is fair and evaluates all candidates consistently, the Commission should establish a rule by October 2021 to require raters to provide written comments on rating sheets for each candidate, explaining the basis for the score they awarded.
Annual Follow-Up Agency Response From October 2022
The new rating sheet has a mandatory field for comments where raters are required to provide comments about a candidate's strength and weaknesses (fully implemented in July of 2021). This applies to all candidates regardless of whether they pass or fail the exam. In the past examiners were only looking for comments for candidates that a rater failed. Examiners will review rating sheets to ensure that comments are sufficient.
- Completion Date: July 2021
California State Auditor's Assessment of Annual Follow-Up Status: Partially Implemented
The Commission provided a sample interview scoring sheet that directs raters to provide a written comment at the end of the evaluation sheet to "briefly explain" their ratings of the candidate. However, it did not provide evidence that it established a rule requiring such comments for all positions and candidates. Thus, the Commission has not yet demonstrated that it has fully implemented our recommendation.
- Auditee did not substantiate its claim of full implementation
1-Year Agency Response
We contacted the Commission's personnel director who declined to submit a response.
- Estimated Completion Date: None
- Response Date: May 2022
California State Auditor's Assessment of 1-Year Status: No Action Taken
To date the Commission has declined to provide a response. Thus, we cannot determine whether it has taken any action to implement this recommendation.
6-Month Agency Response
Although we contacted the Commission repeatedly to ask it to submit a 6-Month response, it did not do so.
- Estimated Completion Date: Unknown
- Response Date: December 2021
California State Auditor's Assessment of 6-Month Status: No Action Taken
60-Day Agency Response
Although we contacted the Commission repeatedly to ask it to submit a 60-Day response, it did not do so.
- Estimated Completion Date: Unknown
- Response Date: August 2021
California State Auditor's Assessment of 60-Day Status: No Action Taken
All Recommendations in 2020-111
Agency responses received are posted verbatim.