Recommendation R4
Improve the financial management practices beginning with immediately balancing the budget and bolstering internal control processes. Complete all annual financial reports on time. Based on Finding: F-1, F-3, F-4, F-5, F-8 Implementation: July 1, 2027 Financial Impact: Moderate
Jury report: Banning: A City Alarmingly Mismanaged · PDF page 15
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Banning Mayor Richard Royce
Agency plans to implementPlans budget and control improvements, with qualified efforts toward annual reporting by July 1, 2027.
Read official response · PDF page 32Pages 32–33 describe an anticipated September budget action and efforts dependent on reporting/audit work. These are qualified plans, not an adopted balanced budget or a guarantee that all reports will be current.
- Pursue the described budget, internal-control and annual-report improvements. Owner: Banning Mayor Richard Royce. Timing: Financial-report work targeted toward July 1, 2027, subject to the qualifications and external reporting dependencies in the response; September 2026 budget action is anticipated, not independently verified..
This review evaluates the response document. Implementation claims have not been independently verified.
Banning Mayor Pro Tem Cindy Barrington
Agency plans to implementPlans budget and control improvements, with qualified efforts toward annual reporting by July 1, 2027.
Read official response · PDF page 32Pages 32–33 describe an anticipated September budget action and efforts dependent on reporting/audit work. These are qualified plans, not an adopted balanced budget or a guarantee that all reports will be current.
- Pursue the described budget, internal-control and annual-report improvements. Owner: Banning Mayor Pro Tem Cindy Barrington. Timing: Financial-report work targeted toward July 1, 2027, subject to the qualifications and external reporting dependencies in the response; September 2026 budget action is anticipated, not independently verified..
This review evaluates the response document. Implementation claims have not been independently verified.
Banning Council Member Colleen Wallace
Agency plans to implementPlans budget and control improvements, with qualified efforts toward annual reporting by July 1, 2027.
Read official response · PDF page 32Pages 32–33 describe an anticipated September budget action and efforts dependent on reporting/audit work. These are qualified plans, not an adopted balanced budget or a guarantee that all reports will be current.
- Pursue the described budget, internal-control and annual-report improvements. Owner: Banning Council Member Colleen Wallace. Timing: Financial-report work targeted toward July 1, 2027, subject to the qualifications and external reporting dependencies in the response; September 2026 budget action is anticipated, not independently verified..
This review evaluates the response document. Implementation claims have not been independently verified.
Banning Council Member Leroy Miller
Agency plans to implementPlans budget and control improvements, with qualified efforts toward annual reporting by July 1, 2027.
Read official response · PDF page 32Pages 32–33 describe an anticipated September budget action and efforts dependent on reporting/audit work. These are qualified plans, not an adopted balanced budget or a guarantee that all reports will be current.
- Pursue the described budget, internal-control and annual-report improvements. Owner: Banning Council Member Leroy Miller. Timing: Financial-report work targeted toward July 1, 2027, subject to the qualifications and external reporting dependencies in the response; September 2026 budget action is anticipated, not independently verified..
This review evaluates the response document. Implementation claims have not been independently verified.
Banning City Manager Elizabeth M. Gibbs
Agency plans to implementPlans budget and control improvements, with qualified efforts toward annual reporting by July 1, 2027.
Read official response · PDF page 32Pages 32–33 describe an anticipated September budget action and efforts dependent on reporting/audit work. These are qualified plans, not an adopted balanced budget or a guarantee that all reports will be current.
- Pursue the described budget, internal-control and annual-report improvements. Owner: Banning City Manager Elizabeth M. Gibbs. Timing: Financial-report work targeted toward July 1, 2027, subject to the qualifications and external reporting dependencies in the response; September 2026 budget action is anticipated, not independently verified..
This review evaluates the response document. Implementation claims have not been independently verified.