Report 2009-043 Recommendation 21 Responses

Report 2009-043: Board of Pilot Commissioners for the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun: It Needs to Develop Procedures and Controls Over Its Operations and Finances to Ensure That It Complies With Legal Requirements (Release Date: November 2009)

Recommendation #21 To: Pilot Commissioners for the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun, Board of

To ensure that it strengthens internal policies and controls over pilot rates and its finances, the board should instruct the inland pilot to collect and remit the training surcharge and report these collections to the board.

1-Year Agency Response

The board demonstrated that it instructed the inland pilot to begin collecting and remitting the pilot trainee training surcharge and the inland pilot is doing so. The inland pilot has acknowledged the instruction and will commence collection of the surcharge beginning with his next trip. (See 2011-406, p. 101)

California State Auditor's Assessment of 1-Year Status: Fully Implemented

All Recommendations in 2009-043

Agency responses received after June 2013 are posted verbatim.