Tehama County Grand Jury
• 2017-2018
• Agency Response
2017-18 Tehama County Grand Jury Final Report
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Note: Missing finding numbers detected: F9, F10, F11, F12, F13, F14, F15, F16, F17, F18, F19, F20, F21, F22, F23, F24, F25, F26
Findings and Recommendations 9 findings
F1
The Auditor’s Office must be audited annually. Then a report must be issued.
Related Recommendations (1)
R1
The 2017 – 2018 Grand Jury recommends that the annual financial report be annotated to include the commissioning remarks of the State Controller or agency who is requesting the report, with ad- ditional confirmation that the report is required to be issued annually, and that a third-party audit is also required annually.
F2
This requirement is commissioned from the State Controller.
Related Recommendations (1)
R2
For at least the last seven years, the same audit firm contracted for the third-party audits. The 2017- 2018 Grand Jury recommends that the best value selection criteria format also require that the in- cumbent audit firm cannot conduct more than two audits in a row. This could potentially result in the identification of other patterns or anomalies not seen or noted by the previous auditor. 18
F3
The selection of the third-party auditor is made through a solicitation process. It includes a baseline of credentials and requirements for interested bidders, and the determination of the successful bid- der is based on best value to the County.
Related Recommendations (1)
R3
The 2017 – 2018 Grand Jury recommends the Auditor/Controller correct the deficiencies in the Civil Trust Fund.
F4
The auditor has the same access to county records as the general public, inclusive of all public rec- ords and documents during the course of their audit. The Grand Jury found this acceptable.
Related Recommendations (1)
R4
The Grand Jury recommends that the 2018-2019 Grand Jury continue to follow up on the correc- tions as noted in R3, relating to the deficiencies noted in the Civil Trust Fund.
F5
While reviewing the 2015-2016 Audit and Finance Committee report, independent audit recom- mendations, and the subsequent 2016-2017 excerpts above, the Grand Jury found that no apparent progress has been made on the reconciliation and correction of deficiencies in the Civil Trust Fund.
Related Recommendations (1)
R5
Ensure that school districts are following McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act and have a local liaison appointed to assist and inform homeless students of their rights and of county resources.
F6
The Point-in-Time count, a snapshot of the homeless population, taken January 24, 2017 reported 12 homeless individuals under the age of 18 in Tehama County.
Related Recommendations (1)
R6
Encourage the stakeholders group to add homeless youth and unaccompanied minors ages 13-18 to their areas of focus. 27
F7
There were 506 declared homeless youth enrolled in Tehama County schools during the 2016-17 school year. SARB has lost track of 13 to 15 students from the 2016-2017 school year with “no clue” where these students are now.
No recommendations for this finding
F8
Tehama County agencies have resources and assistance programs for homeless individuals who are over 18 years of age or for those who are pregnant or parenting teens.
No recommendations for this finding
F27
Roughly 50% of the population is from Tehama County. F2. The Juvenile Detention Facility is housing youths from Glenn, Lake, Siskiyou, and Trinity Counties at a cost to the sending county of $100 per day per youth. F3. The revenues generated by housing out-of-county youths has generated approximately $500,000. These funds have been used to add additional staff and offset operating costs. F4. Each youth, once in the facility, is evaluated mentally and physically within 90 hours. F5. The Probation Department has partnered with the Tehama County Senior Nutrition Program adding one staff member to the Juvenile Detention Facility. The Juvenile Detention Facility provides approximately 150 meals for the Senior Nutrition Program daily. F6. The waste of food as identified in previous Grand Jury reports has been addressed. F7. Juvenile Detention Facility staff members are receiving more than the minimum required annual training resulting in more effective supervision of the youths.
No recommendations for this finding
No Responses Found 1
Government entities assigned to respond to this report. No response documents have been linked in our database.
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