Mendocino County Grand Jury
• 2015-2016
• Agency Response
Response to:
Proposition 172 Funds
Proposition 172 Funds: a Need for Transparency*
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⚠️ Este contenido ha sido traducido automáticamente. El texto original en inglés es la versión oficial. La traducción puede contener errores.
Findings and Recommendations 4 findings
F1
The current method of budgeting the distribution of Proposition 172 funds to County government public safety is not transparent, either to the public or to the County agencies eligible to receive these funds. The Board of Supervisors agrees that all Proposition 172 funds must be accounted for and budgeted in a transparent manner that readily shows the distribution of such funds to the municipalities and public safety agencies which receive them.
Related Recommendations (1)
R1
The CEO and the Auditor-Controller adopt a method of budgeting Proposition 172 funds to County government public safety in a manner that is transparent to the public and to affected agencies, and employ this method for FY 2016-2017 and subsequent budget cycles. This recommendation will be incorporated into the FY 2016-17 budget as directed by the Board of Supervisors.
F2
This lack of transparency violates the spirit of the original proposition and could be easily rectified by a simple alteration to the format of the County budget. The Board of Supervisors agrees that the format of the County budget be changed to clearly account for the receipt and distribution of all Proposition 172 funds.
Related Recommendations (1)
R2
The new budgeting method clearly demonstrates the full distribution of Proposition 172 funds to County public safety agencies. This recommendation will be incorporated into the FY 2016-17 budget as directed by the Board of Supervisors.
F3
I have reviewed the report and submit my responses to the RECOMMENDATIONS portion of the report as follows: \boxtimes The following Recommendation(s) have been implemented and attached, as required, is a summary describing the implemented actions:
Related Recommendations (1)
R3
The Auditor-Controller resume performing the MOE calculation annually and report on its completion to the Board of Supervisors annually as well. This recommendation will be incorporated into the FY 2016-17 budget as directed by the Board of Supervisors.
F4
The failure to update the MOE calculation annually as required, has placed the County in a position of non-compliance with State requirements. Agree. The Board of Supervisors supports the intention of the Auditor- Controller to update the maintenance of effort calculation, and keep it up- dated, and published annually in the County budget.
No recommendations for this finding
* 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.