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Trinity County Grand Jury • 2002-2003

Trinity County Grants and Housing Rehabilitation Loan Administration

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Findings and Recommendations 3 findings

F1 Page 59
The Board agrees that while the guidelines for the operation of the CDBG Housing Loan Committee are clearly spelled out in policy statements, changes in advertisements and announcements were required to be made to make them more user understandable.
No recommendations for this finding
F2 Page 59
The Board of Supervisors disagrees with this finding. The operation of the Housing Loan Committee is spelled out in policy. Decisions and voting by the committee are made pursuant to regular parliamentary procedures.
No recommendations for this finding
F3 Page 59
The Board of Supervisors disagrees with this finding. The Board believes that the Housing Loan Committee is made up of a good balance of members from the public and private sector who understand housing finance and local housing finance needs and who represent the demographic and geographic spread of Trinity County. The Board also believes that the Auditor/Controller, with his financial expertise. should be a member of the committee. Since the Auditor is, at present. the acting County Administrative Officer. we see no problem with appeals of Housing Loan Committee decisions being heard by another county department head that is familiar with banking and finance. Appeals are rare.
Related Recommendations (1)
R3
Page 60
The Board of Supervisors disagrees with this recommendation and would refer to our response to Finding #3 as stated above. The Board would, however, change the composition of or the number of members on the Housing Loan Committee if it was discovered that there was a need for additional expertise or if housing needs in a particular area of the county were not being adequately addressed. Since appeals are rare, we feel that those appeals can be heard by a county manager with knowledge of housing loans and banking until the county re-hires a full time CAO. The Board of Supervisors agrees that, under normal circumstances, die county is better served by having a full time County Administrative Officer. However, the County of Trinity has the good fortune to have an Auditor/Controller who has the education, experience and abilities to do the duties of County Administrative Officer on an interim basis. Add to this the fact that our county is suffering California's budget crisis and is having to lay off county employees, the fact that the county's department heads and supervisors are willing to shoulder some of the administrative load and the fact that the staffs in the Auditors office, the Supervisors Office, the Personnel Office and the County Counsel's Office are all able and well trained; all these have caused the Board of Supervisors to decide to not recruit for a fulltime CAO this fiscal year. It should be pointed out, also, that the Board of Supervisors would not ask him to carry, nor would the Auditor except, additional responsibilities that would cause him to be overburdened.

Additional Recommendations 2

These recommendations are not explicitly linked to specific findings.