Report I2019-2 Recommendation 15 Responses
Report I2019-2: Investigations of Improper Activities by State Agencies and Employees: Inefficient Management of State Resources, Misuse of State Time and Inaccurate Attendance Records, and Inadequate Supervision (Release Date: April 2019)
Case Number I2017-0905
Recommendation #15 To: Water Resources Control Board
The State Water Board should require Employee A's supervisor to continue to monitor and examine weekly time reports for Employee A and other subordinate employees to ensure that they account properly for all of the time worked and the leave taken.
Agency Response From September 2019
The State Water Board reported that it completed the six-month review of the supervisor's monitoring of time and work report summaries for his subordinate employees, which showed that the supervisor ensured that the subordinates properly accounted for their time worked and leave taken.
California State Auditor's Assessment of Status: Fully Implemented
Agency Response From June 2019
The State Water Board provided a written response to us and stated that in response to our recommendation, it implemented a six-month review period for the supervisor to continuously monitor and examine time and work report summaries for his employees to ensure that these employees continue to properly account for their work and leave. The State Water Board stated that it expects to finalize this review in October 2019.
California State Auditor's Assessment of Status: Partially Implemented
Agency Response From February 2019
The State Water Board provided us with work report summaries to substantiate its efforts thus far in overseeing the supervisor's continued monitoring and examination of his employees' time reports for the first and second quarter of 2019. State Water Board has provided work report summaries for the employees for the period of January 1, 2019 through May 31, 2019, to substantiate that the supervisor is ensuring that these employees continue to properly account for their work and leave.