Report 2020-111 Recommendation 4 Responses
Report 2020-111: Los Angeles Community College District Personnel Commission: Its Inconsistent Practices and Inadequate Policies Adversely Affect District Employees and Job Candidates, Leading to Concerns About the Fairness of Its Decisions (Release Date: May 2021)
Recommendation #4 To: Los Angeles Community College District
To ensure that its examination process is fair and evaluates all candidates consistently, the Commission should establish a rule by October 2021 to require examiners to create detailed scoring benchmarks that provide raters guidance on how to rate individual evaluation factors.
Annual Follow-Up Agency Response From October 2022
PC accepted this recommendation. Improvements to rating sheets were implemented which provide specific and detailed definition for each rating on the rating sheet (fully implemented in July of 2021)
Implemented during an Open session of the Personnel Commission having been properly placed on a publicly noticed agenda per the procedural rules of the Brown Act.
- Completion Date: July 2021
California State Auditor's Assessment of Annual Follow-Up Status: Partially Implemented
Although the Commission provided a sample scoring sheet for one position, it did not provide evidence that it established a rule requiring the creation of detailed scoring benchmarks. Such a rule would help ensure that scoring benchmarks are created for all positions. Absent such a rule, the Commission has not fully implemented our recommendation.
- Auditee did not address all aspects of the recommendation
1-Year Agency Response
We contacted the Commission's personnel director who declined to submit a response.
- Estimated Completion Date: None
- Response Date: May 2022
California State Auditor's Assessment of 1-Year Status: No Action Taken
To date the Commission has declined to provide a response. Thus, we cannot determine whether it has taken any action to implement this recommendation.
6-Month Agency Response
Although we contacted the Commission repeatedly to ask it to submit a 6-Month response, it did not do so.
- Estimated Completion Date: Unknown
- Response Date: December 2021
California State Auditor's Assessment of 6-Month Status: No Action Taken
60-Day Agency Response
Although we contacted the Commission repeatedly to ask it to submit a 60-Day response, it did not do so.
- Estimated Completion Date: Unknown
- Response Date: August 2021
California State Auditor's Assessment of 60-Day Status: No Action Taken
All Recommendations in 2020-111
Agency responses received are posted verbatim.