Yolo County Grand Jury
• 2014-2015
• Agency Response
Yolo County Response to: Yolo County Environmental Health Services Division: Has the Food Truck You're Visiting Been Inspected?
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Findings and Recommendations 1 findings
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Food truck operators who are out of compliance are not ticketed or fined. Yolo County Environmental Health Director and County Counsel response: The respondent agrees with the finding.
Related Recommendations (1)
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By October 1, 2015, the Director of Planning, Public Works and Environmental Services, in conjunction with County Counsel, shall determine and implement the necessary steps to enable inspectors to ticket or fine food truck operators who are out of compliance. Yolo County Environmental Health Director and County Counsel response: The recommendation will not be implemented because it is not warranted. The goal of the program is to protect public health and safety by assuring safe food handling practices. Issuing tickets and fines will not achieve this goal. Instead, through education and communication, the Environmental Health Division helps business return to and stay in compliance. Failure to return to compliance results in additional follow-up inspections, compliance conferences, administrative hearings, permit revocation and closure of the facility. Environmental Health charges food facility operators for follow-up inspections, compliance conferences and administrative hearings. The charges are based on the county cost to administer the enforcement action. These charges have the same effect a ticket or fine would, which is to financially impact the business to encourage compliance.
Comments 1
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CO1The following statement in the Grand Jury’s report also requires clarification: “…at the June 2015 Woodland event, out of the 11 trucks participating, six did not have a current Yolo County permit.” A review of Environmental Health records verified all 11 trucks at the event did have a valid permit with Yolo County. It is unknown whether the Grand Jury was looking for stickers on trucks or if they asked operators for a copy of their permits. As a result of the Grand Jury’s report, it has come to our attention that some of the operators that participate in the permit reciprocity program were not mailed a sticker at the time of permit issuance; and issue which is now being addressed. Page 3 of 3