Plumas County Grand Jury • 2005-2006

Grand Jury Report 2005-2006*

Published: September 29, 2006 32 pages
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Findings and Recommendations 8 findings

F1
The Board of Supervisors failed to establish the Audit Committee by November 1, 2005 as they agreed to do in their response to the 2004- 2005 Grand Jury report.
No recommendations for this finding
F2
At the Board of Supervisors meeting of April 4, 2006, it was commented that an Audit Committee still had not been established. At the Grand Jury meeting of April 6, 2006, a request for the nomination of two Grand Jury members to the Audit Committee was received from the County Counsel's office.
No recommendations for this finding
F3
As of the writing of this report, June 8, 2006, the Audit Committee still does not appear to be established or functioning.
No recommendations for this finding
F4
The assigning of a full-time Facilities Services maintenance person has been a great improvement to the productivity of the jail staff. The deficiencies noted in the 2004/05 Grand Jury Report have been mostly taken care of with the exceptions of the Control Room. The working area of the staff has been redone. The maintenance person has started bringing the jail to the newer standards set by the Board of Corrections. Work maintenance logs are now available and accessible. Still needed at the last jail tour were the logs for fire safety, sprinkler and fire extinguisher (these were started, not finished).
No recommendations for this finding
F5
The Control Room still remains a crowded maze of wires and there is no known completion date. See the Board's Response to Finding #4, Plumas County Jail, from the 2004-2005 Grand Jury Final Report: "Agree. However, the County notes that a RFP (Request For Proposal) with specifications is being done for the repairs in the control room wiring. This RFP is estimated to be completed by December 2005."
Related Recommendations (1)
R5
The public deserves to have access to Board of Supervisors meeting content in a timely and efficient manner. The time utilized by the Board Clerk to type minutes from a tape recorder could be better spent on other assignments. Board minutes do not have to be approved before dissemination to the public if noted, "Not approved". Today's technology is such that the Board meetings can be audio-recorded on disc, and digitally transferred to paper. This can then be readily placed on the internet. The discs can be copied and disseminated for a fee to those citizens who wish to hear the board meeting content, and for those who do not have internet access. It is not acceptable for individual Supervisors to imply that the public is "not really interested" or to claim that the public will "take things out of context".
F6
Some Supervisors are not fulfilling their obligation to attend community advisory meetings on a regular basis nor to provide appropriate oversight of county departments, such as Facility Services.
Related Recommendations (1)
R6
Some Supervisors are not fulfilling their obligation to attend community advisory meetings on a regular basis nor to provide appropriate oversight of county departments, such as Facility Services. Re
F7
The cemetery district's records indicate that the specific plot originally sold to the complainant is now owned by the board member CS.
No recommendations for this finding
F8
The PCD Secretary has a letter to PCD from the Plumas County Auditor- Controller's office, dated 12/2/04, which reports that the $300 warrant issued was stale dated and had been cancelled, with the funds transferred into the unclaimed trust fund.
No recommendations for this finding

Additional Recommendations 5

These recommendations are not explicitly linked to specific findings.

* 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.