Report 2023-133 Recommendation 7 Responses

Report 2023-133: City of Anaheim: It Has Not Properly Managed Tourism-Related Contracts and Millions of Dollars in Related Funds (Release Date: January 2024)

Recommendation #7 To: Anaheim, City of

To improve Anaheim's oversight of the tourism district assessment contract with Visit Anaheim, the city should by January 2025 seek to renegotiate with Visit Anaheim to revise the contract to ensure that the contract does the following:

-Requires Visit Anaheim to develop a plan for oversight of any subcontractor and provide documentation of this oversight annually to the city.

6-Month Agency Response

This will need to be an administrative regulation adopted by the Visit Anaheim Board. An amended and restated agreement is being discussed between the City and Visit Anaheim to require a plan for oversight of subcontractors and to provide documentation on this oversight annually to the City.

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

60-Day Agency Response

This will need to be an administrative regulation adopted by the Visit Anaheim Board. The City will further engage with Visit Anaheim to require a plan for oversight of subcontractors and to provide documentation on this oversight to the City into the operating agreement by January 2025.

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

All Recommendations in 2023-133

Agency responses received are posted verbatim.