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Findings
17 findings
Because of low revenues, the Lanare Community Service District is unable to support itself.
The Board of Directors violated the Brown Act due to a lack of notification of meetings.
The District lacks accounting procedures.
The Board of Directors does not have sufficient expertise to manage the district's daily operation.
No daily operational records have been maintained, therefore the district is not able to determine a level of service needed for present or future water customers.
Current water supplied by the district does not comply with Federal Arsenic Level Standards.
Neither the Fresno County Board of Supervisors nor any other county governmental agency has any legal oversight in governing the Lanare Community Service District.
A potential emergency exists at the Lanare Community Service District because of insufficient funds, mismanagement, water arsenic levels, and the lack of potable water.
The public costs of supporting the unsheltered homeless are very high.
The total costs associated with the unsheltered homeless in Fresno County are not quantified.
Fresno County, cities within Fresno County, and many non-profit and for-profit non- governmental organizations attempt to address problems of the homeless.
There is widespread (almost universal) agreement that the City of Fresno and Fresno County are not coordinating efforts to help solve the problems of the chronic unsheltered homeless.
The Fresno-Madera Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) is an on-line computer system that provides information about the homeless to partner agencies.
The HMIS system is not receiving data from all agencies that provide services to the homeless.
The various efforts currently in place to provide housing for the homeless have not been effective solutions to Fresno’s homeless problem.
“Housing First” programs provide permanent transitional housing and support services for the unsheltered homeless.
“Housing First,” meaning providing housing and supportive social services for the chronically unsheltered homeless, may cost less public money than leaving the homeless on the streets. COMMENDATION The Fresno-Madera Continuum of Care, and its member organizations are to be commended for the help they have provided and continue to provide to the homeless in Fresno and Madera Counties.
