Report 2019-111 Recommendation 3 Responses
Report 2019-111: Mobile Home Park Inspections: The Department of Housing and Community Development Must Improve Its Inspection Processes to Better Protect Park Residents (Release Date: July 2020)
Recommendation #3 To: Housing and Community Development, Department of
To reduce health and safety risks in parks, HCD should by September 2020 document facility IDs and dates for all inspections and field monitoring visits in CASAS so that staff can readily determine the length of time since each park's last inspection or field monitoring visit and the type of inspection or visit that HCD conducted.
6-Month Agency Response
The collection of Mobilehome Park IDs for inspection types is current practice. Sprint 63, deployed November 19, 2020 included CASAS enhancement to the DR workload report allowing for the reporting of Park IDs for multiple inspection types.
- Completion Date: November 2020
- Response Date: January 2021
California State Auditor's Assessment of 6-Month Status: Fully Implemented
HCD modified CASAS so that inspectors can record field monitoring visits and provided a sample of a workload report that shows it is now documenting facility IDs and dates for all inspections and field monitoring visits.
60-Day Agency Response
Staff Memo 2020-05 issued August 24, 2020 identifies field monitoring selection method and CASAS database reporting requirement.
- Completion Date: August 2020
- Response Date: September 2020
California State Auditor's Assessment of 60-Day Status: Partially Implemented
HCD's staff memo address recording field monitoring, but it does not address recording other inspections (non-MPA inspections). HCD has indicated that it is working on an enhancement to CASAS that will allow the currently-collected facility ID data for these other visits to be included in reported inspection data related to park visits.
- Auditee did not address all aspects of the recommendation
All Recommendations in 2019-111
Agency responses received are posted verbatim.