Score: +6 (6/0/0)
Mariposa County Grand Jury • 2020-2021

Interim Report June 2, 2021 Mariposa County Civil Grand Jury 2020/21 Investigation of Public Works*

Published: June 02, 2021 6 pages
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Note: Missing finding numbers detected: F7, F8, F9, F10

Findings and Recommendations 7 findings

F1
Historically, the county Human Resources department has not been regarded as a safe, unbiased or effective resource for employees.
Related Recommendations (1)
R1
The Board of Supervisors should ensure that the HR department be restructured, and effectively empowered to protect the best interests of the county, and its employees of the publication of this report. [the MCCGJ learned in May, 2021 that corrective actions are underway]
F2
Employees of the Public Works Department have resigned, or retired due to an unchanging hostile work environment.
Related Recommendations (1)
R2
The Board of Supervisors should investigate the allegations of favoritism, and a hostile work environment in the PWD of this report.
F3
Many employees are unwilling to speak to the Grand Jury for fear of retaliation.
Related Recommendations (1)
R3
The Sheriff's Office should audit, and investigate specific allegations of the falsification of timecards and if verified, the BOS should take corrective actions up to, and including termination and prosecution, of the publication of this report.
F4
Multiple allegations of timecard falsification were made.
Related Recommendations (1)
R4
The Board of Supervisors should make changes in the PWD management structure and establish a work environment improvement plan to increase unity, and effectiveness of the Public Works teams of the publication of this report.
F5
Multiple allegations of OSHA, and safety protocol violations were alleged.
Related Recommendations (1)
R5
The PWD should establish a policy and procedures manual, specific to the PWD of the publication of this report. The manual should be made available upon request. REQUIRED RESPONSE: Pursuant to Penal Code sections §933, and §933.05, the Grand Jury requires a response from the following governing bodies of the publication of this report: Board of Supervisors
F6
After repeated requests for PWD policies and procedures, the PWD director indicated there were none.
No recommendations for this finding
F011
Kirsty Lebovitz Mike Henderson à Belair Art Lehr (electronic) Art Lehr Liana Belair Tom Habeck (electronic) Tom Habeck Adam Andersen Pam Leonard (electronic) Pam Leonard
No recommendations for this finding

Agency Responses 2

Government agencies' official responses to this report's findings and recommendations. Click on a response to see the structured breakdown.

* This report's PDF did not contain easily extractable text and required Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for analysis. There may be minor errors in the extracted findings and recommendations due to OCR limitations with scanned documents.