Sustainability Department: Board-approved response-text memo

Response says

SMCSD partially disagrees: it accepts the MOU delegation but says an HF&H Consultants internal enforcement protocol has existed since June 2024, with outreach, inspections and follow-up to achieve voluntary compliance.

Audit analysis

The response explicitly identifies its accepted and disputed portions and gives a named protocol and date. It does not separately demonstrate all of the finding’s records-based concerns about re-inspections, compliance deadlines, Notices of Violation and penalties. This is engagement scoring, not verification that the protocol existed, was sufficient or was followed; R1 separately proposes further analysis of expanded written procedures.

Response says

SMCSD labels its position partial disagreement, accepts the complaint-procedure requirement, neither agrees nor disagrees that the form failed because it cannot verify the test, and identifies email/telephone alternatives and a newly added direct web link.

Audit analysis

The explicit partial-disagreement label is retained, but the response does not clearly identify a disputed conclusion about publicly accessible written procedures across the reviewed jurisdictions. Alternate channels and a direct link do not independently establish anonymous receipt/investigation procedures for each jurisdiction, or that the earlier form worked. The score concerns the document’s mapping and explanation, not a legal ruling or live website test.

Response says

Requires further analysis. SMCSD describes developing inspection, deadline, notice, citation and appeal procedures with MOU jurisdictions; it will explore funding/cost recovery and prepare the matter for discussion by February 3, 2027.

Audit analysis

The response supplies an analysis scope, funding rationale, partners and discussion date. February 3 is a discussion/analysis milestone, not a promise of full implementation or adoption by the jury’s December 31 deadline. No legal conclusion about deadline compliance is made.

Response says

Requires further analysis. SMCSD says a standardized inspection form is implemented; a public database needs evaluation of public-records exemptions, confidentiality, resources and County systems, with analysis and County Attorney discussion by February 3, 2027.

Audit analysis

Both material parts are distinguished: a claimed completed form and an unimplemented database under analysis. The cited response starts on memo page 2 and continues on page 3, which contains the analysis scope and date. No database implementation by February 3 or independent verification of the form is inferred.

Response says

Will be implemented in the future. SMCSD will coordinate a standardized receiving, routing, investigating and documenting process by June 30, 2027; each jurisdiction controls its adoption decision/timing, and SMCSD will track adoption.

Audit analysis

The future development commitment has an explicit date and scope. It does not promise every jurisdiction will adopt by that date, and the response does not claim the new process already exists. Ongoing adoption tracking has no separate completion deadline.