Report 2018-037 Recommendation 10 Responses

Report 2018-037: California Department of Housing and Community Development: Its Oversight of Housing Bond Funds Remains Inconsistent (Release Date: September 2018)

Recommendation #10 To: Housing and Community Development, Department of

To ensure that it maximizes the benefit of the funds it has invested in CAPES's development and to support its ongoing efforts to improve CAPES's usability, HCD should, by January 1, 2019, perform an assessment of those programs that do not fully use CAPES.

6-Month Agency Response

The assessment is 100% complete. A tracking tool is being developed to assist in understanding the assessment, by outlining which fields are currently used by which units, and identifying the need for training in areas where units are not fully utilizing CAPES modules. Further analysis and refinement of the tracking tool was completed 3/15/19.

California State Auditor's Assessment of 6-Month Status: Fully Implemented

60-Day Agency Response

The assessment is 50% complete. Information from each section indicating which data fields are currently used in CAPES to manage programs and undertake functions is complete. Data will next be analyzed against program requirements to determine gaps.

California State Auditor's Assessment of 60-Day Status: Pending

All Recommendations in 2018-037

Agency responses received are posted verbatim.