Score: +6
(6/0/0)
Sacramento County Grand Jury
• 2018-2019
Cosumnes Community Services District:
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Findings and Recommendations 6 findings
F1
CCSD timely complied with the law that it commits the Camden Pointe Quimby fees within five years of their payment. It spent all of those fees for the construction of Phase 1 of MacDonald Park, and possibly for some other parks which would serve the Camden Pointe subdivision. CCSD has fulfilled its legal obligations with regard to those fees.
Related Recommendations (1)
R1
CCSD should educate the district’s residents about the requirements and discretions it has with regard to the Quimby fees which it collects. CCSD should have open discussions about Quimby fees and dedications with its constituents
F2
CCSD timely complied with the law that it commits the Sheldon Estates II Quimby fees within five years of their collection. There is no time limit by which CCSD must spend the Sheldon Estates II Quimby fees to construct Phase 2 of McDonald Park.
Related Recommendations (1)
R2
CCSD should inform the district’s residents what CCSD intends to do with the Sheldon Estates II Quimby fees if the vote on the overlay district fails, at the first Board meeting following the vote.
F3
CCSD residents are understandably frustrated that sixteen years after collecting the Sheldon Estates II Quimby fees, and thirteen years after committing to spend those fees to construct Phase 2 of MacDonald Park, CCSD still retains those fees. Residents do not have a clear understanding of the retention and use of those funds.
Related Recommendations (1)
R3
CCSD should establish an accounting system which specifically tracks each Quimby fee collected from a developer and how that money is spent. This should be
F4
CCSD makes a good faith effort to comply with the California Public Records Act.
Related Recommendations (1)
R4
CCSD should make a good faith and thorough effort, by June 30, 2020, to identify and recreate the records of collected but unspent Quimby Act funds that were lost due to the 2015 fire and inform its constituents of that effort. 28
F5
CCSD makes a good faith effort to keep adequate and appropriate District records to fulfill legal requirements.
No recommendations for this finding
F6
CCSD’s records retention policy requires its records be safeguarded and adequately protected.
No recommendations for this finding
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