Nevada County Grand Jury • 1997-1998

Nevada County Eric Rood Administration Building Reason for Investigation*

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Findings and Recommendations 6 findings

Director of general services is responsible for the maintenance of all county facilities.

No recommendations for this finding

There are deficiencies with the emergency lighting system in the Rood Building.

No recommendations for this finding

The emergency lighting problems were identified by the Facilities-Systems Advisors Report submitted to the Board of Supervisors March 1997 by a citizen's group.

No recommendations for this finding

There are no written facility maintenance and inspection procedures for the Rood Building. Maintenance inspection procedures for county facilities are scheduled to be prepared later this year (1998) with help from an outside organization.

Related Recommendations (1)

The Grand Jury recommends that facilities management develop and implement maintenance and safety procedures that will adhere to state and federal guidelines.

Personnel who find maintenance or safety deficiencies report them to their supervisors who forward them to facility management.

No recommendations for this finding

Limited funds and personnel are allocated to the maintenance of county facilities. CONCLUSIONS

Related Recommendations (1)

The Grand Jury recommends that the facilities management yearly budget should be adequately funded for maintenance and materials to correct the above problems.

Conclusions 3

CL1 Page 1

The emergency lighting problem is being corrected at the time of writing this report.
CL2 Page 1

Failure of the County Administrative Office to address known deficiencies in a timely manner led to the injury in this complaint.
CL3 Page 1

Inattention to the Facility-System Advisors Report could put the county at risk to litigation. 27

No Responses Found 2

Government entities assigned to respond to this report. No response documents have been linked in our database.

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