To: Board of Supervisors
From: County Administrative Office
Agenda Section: Departmental
SUBJECT:
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Updated Responses to 2018-19 Civil Grand Jury Reportsend
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RECOMMENDATION(S):
Recommendation
That the Board of Supervisors:
1. Review and modify as necessary the proposed responses to the Civil Grand Jury on behalf of the Board of Supervisors with supporting documentation (Attachments 2 and 4);
2. Approve the documents, as may be modified, as the response;
3. Direct the Clerk of the Board, within 5 working days, to submit the final response with an accompanying Board Order to the 2018-19 Civil Grand Jury and the Presiding Judge of the Superior Court; and
4. Direct the Clerk of the Board, within 5 working days, to submit two copies of all responses to the County Clerk/Recorder, one of which will be forwarded to the State Archivist, together with a copy of the original report.
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SOURCE OF FUNDING:
General Fund
DISCUSSION:
The Civil Grand Jury investigates and reports on the operations, accounts, and records of the officers, departments, or functions of certain public agencies within Humboldt County. The county thanks the Civil Grand Jury for their hard work and efforts that they have put forth in their 2018-19 reports.
The Civil Grand Jury has submitted five reports to the Presiding Judge of the Superior Court. Each department head or agency mentioned in the report is required to respond. On Oct. 1, 2019 your Board heard a presentation with subsequent discussion on each proposed response. Your Board directed staff to return with specific modifications to, "Like, Home? There's No Place" and "Mis-Fortunes of Humboldt County," on Tuesday, Oct. 8. Specifically, staff was directed to bring the "Mis-Fortunes" report back to your Board after reviewing the Auditor's feedback, and based on your Board's discussion staff was to give particular consideration around updating responses to Finding 3 and Recommendation 9. Additional direction ...
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