Report 2010-125 Recommendation 22 Responses

Report 2010-125: State Lands Commission: Because It Has Not Managed Public Lands Effectively, the State Has Lost Millions in Revenue for the General Fund (Release Date: August 2011)

Recommendation #22 To: Lands Commission, State

To ensure that it manages delinquent leases in an effective and timely manner and collects all the amounts owed to it, the commission should conduct and document cost-benefit analyses when it contemplates either referring a delinquent lessee to the attorney general or pursuing the delinquent lessee through other means.

1-Year Agency Response

The commission’s draft procedures regarding delinquent lessees specify that a management team will make a determination regarding pursuing a delinquent lessee after weighing available resources. According to the commission’s chief counsel, while its draft procedures did not use the phrase “cost-benefit analysis,” the analysis of whether to pursue a trespass or lease compliance issue includes the elements of a cost-benefit analysis in addition to policy and legal considerations. (See 2013-406, p. 202)

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

All Recommendations in 2010-125

Agency responses received after June 2013 are posted verbatim.