Report of State Auditor 1999

• Year: 1999
• Title: Report of the State Auditor
• CWCB Section: Finance
• Description: Evalation of Actions Taken on the 1998 Colorado Water Conservation Board Construction Fund Loan Program as of December 1999
• Publications - Doc Type: Tech Report

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4 Evaluation of Actions Taken on Colorado Water Conservation Board as of December 1999 I
Program improvements to interested parties, including the members of the Legislative Audit 1
Committee.
Water Conservation Board's Report Response I
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(September 1998):
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Agree. The Board has established programmatic goals and objectives for implementation
of its Construction Fund Loan Program responsibilities in its Long Range Plan,and the staff
presents increasingly better information to the Board at its regular meetings regarding
implementation concerns. More extensive management goals and specific operational
objectives will be developed by July 30, 1999, to provide better means to assure that the I
Program is operating within an appropriate framework. These new goals and objectives will II
be presented to the Board based upon: 1) the review of workload allocation and priorities
that is in progress within the agency,and 2)the comparison of the CWCB program structure I
with other state agencies with similar programmatic responsibilities.
Implementation Date: July 1999. 1
Water Conservation Board's Update (October 1999):
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In progress. The Construction Fund Program goals and objectives are outlined in the CWCB
Long Range Plan that is revised periodically. The Program has developed a mission
statement and individual performance objectives for each employee that follow the overall
goals of the Program and are in line with the Colorado Peak Performance Program
objectives. The CWCB staff delivers progress reports of program improvements at every
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CWCB Board meeting and regularly to the Colorado Water Congress and the Colorado
Water Resource and Power Development Authority.
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Office of the State Auditor's Evaluation of Actions Taken
(December 1999):
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In progress. We noted that the Board has recently made some progress in establishing
shorter-term performance objectives for the Construction Loan Program. In its Fiscal Year
2001 budget request,for example,the Board reported on several new performance measures
of a process-related nature (e.g., number of feasibility studies completed and reviewed,
number of loan applications received and reviewed, and number of loans approved).
Although formulating and reporting on these measures represents progress toward
implementing the audit recommendation, further improvements are still possible. For
example, the Board has not created any goals or objectives to illustrate its performance in I
certain business-related areas which are fundamental to the overall success of the Program
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