Report Title |
Agency |
Recommendation |
Implementation Status |
Competency to Stand Trial Report 14-1
|
Department of Social and Health Services |
The Behavioral Health and Service Integration Administration should provide
accurate, consistent, and timely reporting on the number of defendants referred
for competency evaluations, the number of evaluations completed, and the timelines
in admitting defendants to the hospitals. |
Action in Progress |
Competency to Stand Trial Report 14-1 |
Department of Social and Health Services |
After collecting and analyzing descriptive data about its current operations,
the Department of Social and Health Services should hire an independent, external
consultant to develop 1) a service delivery approach that enables the Behavioral
Health and Service Integration Administration (the Administration) to meet the
statutory targets, and 2) a staffing model to implement the new approach. |
Action in Progress |
Competency to Stand Trial Report 14-1 |
Department of Social and Health Services |
The Behavioral Health and Service Integration Administration should take actions
to comply with additional statutory requirements from SSB 6492. |
Partially Implemented |
Competency to Stand Trial Report 14-1 |
Department of Social and Health Services |
The Behavioral Health and Service Integration Administration, its primary
judicial system partners, including the Administrative Office of the Courts, and
other stakeholders should meet to develop an approach to assure collaboration and
communication among the partners. |
Implemented |
Competency to Stand Trial Report 14-1 |
Department of Social and Health Services |
The Behavioral Health and Service Integration Administration should work with
its judicial system partners, including the Administrative Office of the Courts
and other stakeholders, to develop training specific to their professions, as well
as training material appropriate for cross training. |
Action in Progress |
UW Alternative Public Works Sunset Review
Report 14-3
|
University of Washington (UW) |
UW should identify opportunities to reduce the time to select contractors for
Harborview projects. UW should report the results of its review to the Legislature
and the Capital Projects Advisory Review Board. |
Implemented |
UW Alternative Public Works Sunset Review
Report 14-3
|
University of Washington (UW) |
UW should track use of woman- and minority-owned subcontractors on projects
using the alternative process to determine whether it is meeting its internal
goal. |
Implemented |
UW Alternative Public Works Sunset Review
Report 14-3
|
University of Washington (UW) |
UW should review the other contracting steps that follow contractor selection to
identify opportunities to reduce the time to begin constructing Harborview
projects. UW should report the results of its review to the Legislature and the
Capital Projects Advisory Board. |
Implemented |
Gas Vapor Regulations Report 14-4 |
Department of Ecology, Puget Sound Clean Air Agency, Southwest Clean Air
Agency |
The Department of Ecology and the local clean air agencies should estimate and
publish when Stage II requirements will begin to increase emissions. This analysis
should determine whether keeping Stage II systems helps the regions meet
Environmental Protection Agency's current ozone standard and the costs and cost
effectiveness associated with keeping these systems. |
Implemented |
Highway Maintenance and Preservation Needs
Report 14-5
|
Department of Transportation (WSDOT) |
WSDOT should use best practices to make its bridge estimates as reliable as its
pavement estimates.
|
Action in Progress |
Highway Maintenance and Preservation Needs Report 14-5 |
Office of Financial Management (OFM), Department of Transportation (WSDOT) |
WSDOT and OFM should develop a process to improve stakeholders’ confidence in
its highway estimates.
|
Action in Progress |
State Recreation and Habitat Lands Report 15-1 |
Recreation and Conservation Office, Department of Natural Resources, Department
of Fish and Wildlife, Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission |
The Legislative Auditor recommends that the five agencies develop a single,
easily-accessible source for information about proposed recreation and habitat
land acquisitions, including detailed outcomes and future costs. |
Action in Progress |
Workers’ Compensation Claims Management
Report 15-4
|
Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) |
L&I should institute standards for early phone contact, claim management
planning, and clear documentation in claims management. L&I should provide a
plan to JLARC for how and when it will achieve the standards and provide annual
progress reports describing actions taken to complete the plan. |
Action in Progress |
Workers’ Compensation Claims Management
Report 15-4
|
Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) |
L&I should expand its pilot programs and enhance its claims management
support systems (training, performance measures, and technology) with a focus on
return to work. L&I should provide a plan to JLARC for how and when it will
expand pilot programs and enhance support systems and should provide annual
progress reports describing actions taken to complete the plan. |
Action in Progress |
Unemployment Insurance Training Benefits Report 16-1 |
Employment Security Department |
The Employment Security Department should prepare a plan to identify reasons why
outcomes improve for some training benefits participants and not others, and
determine whether there are opportunities to change the Program to improve
outcomes for all participants. |
Action in Progress |
Unemployment Insurance Training Benefits
Report 16-1
|
Employment Security Department |
The Employment Security Department should develop a plan and associated cost
estimate to improve its administration of the Training Benefits Program, to
include: improving the application form, improving guidance to its Program
partners, improving the timeliness of its decisions, establishing quality
assurance review, and improving its performance measures. |
Action in Progress |
Second Sunset Review of UW's Alternative Process for Selecting Medical Facility
Construction Contractors
Report 17-1
|
University of Washington (UW) |
The UW should establish timeliness goals for selecting a contractor and
beginning construction, and annually monitor its progress in meeting its goals.
The UW should report this information to the Capital Projects Advisory Review
Board (CPARB) by September 2017, and in its subsequent biennial reports. |
Action in Progress |
Second Sunset Review of UW's Alternative Process for Selecting Medical Facility
Construction Contractors
Report 17-1
|
University of Washington (UW) and Office of Minority and Women's Business
Enterprises (OMWBE) |
In consultation with the Office of Minority and Women's Business Enterprises,
the UW should identify the barriers it believes impede its use of certified
minority and woman owned firms and suggest remedies to those barriers. The UW
should report this information to the Capital Projects Advisory Review Board
(CPARB) by September 2017, and in its subsequent biennial reports. CPARB can then
determine whether or not to recommend policy changes to the Legislature. |
Action in Progress |
Unaccompanied Homeless Youth
Report 17-3
|
Department of Commerce (Commerce) and Office of Superintendent of Public
Instruction (OSPI) |
Commerce and OSPI should issue joint guidance to counties and school districts,
and clarify how they can work together to improve estimates of the unaccompanied
homeless youth population. |
Partially Implemented |
Governor’s Interagency Coordinating Council on Health Disparities
Report 17-4
|
The Council |
The Council should submit action plan updates every two years with content that
reflects the entire prioritized list of health disparities. |
Partially Implemented |
Governor’s Interagency Coordinating Council on Health Disparities
Report 17-04
|
The Council |
The Council should include the status of all recommendations and all diseases,
conditions, and health indicators from the prioritized list in its progress
reports. |
Action in Progress |
Puget Sound Partnership 2016
Report 17-05
|
Puget Sound Partnership and Office of Financial Management |
The Partnership should submit a plan to the Legislature that identifies and
addresses needed revisions to the planning and recovery timeframes. |
Implemented |
Puget Sound Partnership 2016
Report 17-05
|
Puget Sound Partnership (Partnership) and Office of Financial Management
(OFM) |
The OFM and the Partnership should submit a plan to the Legislature that details
how they will create a more complete inventory of recovery actions and
funding. |
Action in Progress |
Puget Sound Partnership 2016
Report 17-05
|
Puget Sound Partnership (Partnership) and Office of Financial Management |
The Partnership should submit a plan to the Legislature that details how it will
address the deficiencies in its ability to meet the essential requirements for a
monitoring program, as identified by JLARC staff. The plan should also address how
the Partnership will improve and clarify links between monitoring and
planning. |
Partially Implemented |
Fees Assessed for Forest Fire Protection
Report 17-06
|
Department of Natural Resources (DNR) |
DNR should clarify the definition of forest land and implement a process to
consistently apply the definition across the state. |
Action in Progress |
Fees Assessed for Forest Fire Protection
Report 17-06
|
Department of Natural Resources (DNR) |
DNR should coordinate with county officials to create consistent policies for
administering the assessment. DNR should develop consistent guidance for county
officials to address parcel changes that impact the assessment. DNR should solicit
input from county officials to ensure that they can efficiently and effectively
implement the guidance. In addition to guidance, DNR should develop a policy
regarding communications with county officials. |
Action in Progress |
Measuring Outcomes of Land Acquisitions and Regulations
Report 18-01
|
Office of Financial Management (OFM) and Recreation and Conservation Office
(RCO) |
OFM and RCO should develop and submit a joint plan to the Legislature detailing
the actions, costs, and timelines needed to comply with statutes that direct them
to measure performance of land acquisitions and related grant programs.
- RCW 43.41.270 directs OFM to assist natural resource agencies in developing
outcome-focused performance measures for administering natural
resource-related and environmentally based grant and loan programs.
- RCW 79A.15.065 directs RCO to develop outcome-focused performance measures
to be used for management and performance assessment of grant programs.
- Neither requirement has been implemented.
|
Implemented |
Measuring Outcomes of Land Acquisitions and Regulations
Report 18-01
|
Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW),
and State Parks and Recreation Commission (State Parks) |
DNR, WDFW, and State Parks should provide the Legislature with a plan detailing
the resources necessary to report stewardship needs. Consistent with OFM’s
planning guidance, this reporting should include: the current state of
agency-managed lands, the desired state, and actions needed to achieve the desired
state. OFM’s guidance suggests agencies answer four key questions:
- Where are we today?
- Where do we want to be in the future?
- How do we close the gap?
- How will we know if we are succeeding?
|
Implemented |
Wildfire Suppression Funding and Costs
Report 18-02
|
Department of Natural Resource (DNR) |
DNR should refine its collection of key data elements and seek input from the
appropriate Legislative committees. The Department of Natural Resources (DNR)
should identify the key data elements it needs for internal management and for
responding to the most common information requests. This will likely revise the
current list of data collected, and some information may no longer be needed. The
agency should propose its list of data elements to the appropriate legislative
committees of the House and Senate to ensure the data will meet legislative needs.
DNR should plan to periodically review this list internally and with the
Legislature on an ongoing basis. |
Agency did not respond to request for status update |
Wildfire Suppression Funding and Costs
Report 18-02
|
Department of Natural Resource (DNR) |
DNR should improve the accuracy and reliability of the key data elements it
collects Wildfire Suppression Funding and Costs. After DNR has refined the
data elements it will collect (as described in the prior recommendation), it
should implement agency-wide policies and procedures for data entry and validation
to ensure that the data collected and reported is accurate and reliable. |
Agency did not respond to request for status update |
Wildfire Suppression Funding and Costs
Report 18-02
|
Department of Natural Resource (DNR) |
DNR should develop a systematic and verifiable way to identify the costs of
individual fires. There are a variety of ways that DNR can achieve this,
from simple to complex. For example, methods could include a single
spreadsheet-based index of all project codes, adding fields to existing databases,
or creating an interface between the financial and fire data systems. DNR also
should consider having a consistent set of fields for the spreadsheets used to
track fire codes at the regions. Any approach should ensure that the list
of codes is consistently maintained and updated throughout the fiscal year to
improve the efficiency and accuracy of reporting. |
Agency did not respond to request for status update |
DES/OFM Approach to Assessing Contracting Options
Report 18-03
|
Department of Enterprise Services (DES), Office of Financial Management
(OFM) |
Department of Enterprise Services (DES) should collect and retain evidence of
contractor and DES cost and performance data associated with the pilot projects
and any additional contracts entered through this statutory process. |
Implemented |