Greuel Calls for Increased Accountability in City Job Placement Program
LOS ANGELES – City Controller Wendy Greuel today released a performance audit of the Community Development Department’s (CDD) Workforce Investment Act (WIA) grant-funded programs and found that the City is doing a lackluster job of getting unemployed Angelenos back to work. Greuel urged for greater accountability in the City’s job placement program and for officials to adopt standards that go above and beyond the Department of Labor program requirements to help create more sustainable employment opportunities.
“Doing an adequate job does not cut it,” said Greuel. “As long as we have unemployed people in the City, we must not rest. Getting Angelenos back to work has to be a top priority and the City must go one step further by better connecting job training with job placement and retention.”
Greuel reminded City leaders that her audits provide an opportunity to re-envision how the City does business and how to get the maximum effectiveness out of the resources invested. The City’s WorkSource Centers are a prime example. Some of her audit findings include:
· Although the average cost to place a WIA client in a job is consistent for the years reviewed, the employment retention rate is actually decreasing.
· WorkSource Centers’ placement statistics do not demonstrate the most effective and efficient use of WIA funds; despite similar budgets, job placements ranged from 148 to 409 depending on the center.
· CDD does not report performance measures and outcomes in a manner that is readily understood by decision makers and program monitoring practices primarily focus on compliance with WIA guidelines, as opposed to reviewing the cost-effectiveness of the Centers.
· CDD lacks a comprehensive, integrated data system to collect WIA client program data and report results.
“I call upon CDD and the Workforce Investment Board to fully implement the recommendations in this audit to improve its preparation of the City’s workforce and to get the City’s unemployed back to work and trained to compete in the 21st century global economy,” added Greuel.
This latest audit falls on the heels of Greuel’s review of the City’s grant application processes for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which revealed that hundreds of millions in competitive grant funds were not pursed.
Controller Greuel has conducted 50 audits and uncovered $125 million that the City has lost to waste, fraud, and abuse over the last two years.
A copy of the Controller’s letter to the Mayor and Council regarding this audit is attached.
ZUMA DOGG WEIGHS IN WITH ADDITIONAL COMMENTS TO ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA:
Antonio Villaraigosa...TIME TO SIT DOWN, AND KEEP YOUR RACIST TRAP SHUT!!!! I AM HAVING THE FBI SHUT IT FOR YOU, ONCE AND FOR ALL! AND, BY NOW, YOU HAVE THE LAWSUIT NOTICE, I SERVED YOUR MAFIA-PUPPET, PUNK-ASS over ILLEGAL VENICE STREET CURFEW!!! (L.A. TIMES SAYS IT, "GOES TO FAR!") AND YOUR DUMB, CORRUPT, RACIST, DIVISIVE MOUTH IS GOING TOO FAR...for a guy with the FBI PROBING "as wide and as high as needed." ALL YOUR APPOINTMENTS! ALL YOUR PALS! YOU! AND NOW, YOUR DUMB, PUNK-ASS PISSED OFF CONGRESS...SO KEEP A LOW PROFILE, AND KEEP YOUR MAFIA MOUTH SHUT!!! YOU GOT DRUG MONEY LAUNDERED ALL OVER YA! AND, ZD IS COMING AFTER YOU FOR HAVING THE LOS ANGELES HOUSING DEPARTMENT CITE PROPERTY OWNERS WITH BUILDING & SAFTEY CODE! (Only Building & Safety can do that, and ZD is putting together list of plaintiffs, NOW!) HEY VILLAR, SHUT THE FUCK UP, YOU DRUG MONEY LAUNDERER IN A PAIR OF ELEVATOR SHOES!!!! HERE'S THE FULL LETTER FROM CONGRESS, TAKING YOUR SONNY CROCKETT, DRUG CARTEL YACHT TO TASK!!! (You should have used drug cartel money to retro-fit the yacht, NOT FEDERAL STIMULUS MONEY, PUTZARAIOGSA!)
REMEMBER TONY, YOU AIN'T NUTHING BUT A DUMB-PUNK, HIGH SCHOOL OUTCAST: (Folklore has him as a former gang member. Those who went to high school with him, LAUGH and say, "ARE YOU KIDDING??? LOOK AT HIM! He was hanging out with the cheerleaders and hairdresser crowd.") Antonio, your fancy suits paid for with drug cartel money don't buy you a shred of class, or dignity. And the Westsiders LAUGH at the dumb stuttering puppet who does what they tell him to do.
REMEMBER TONY, YOU AIN'T NUTHING BUT A DUMB-PUNK, HIGH SCHOOL OUTCAST: (Folklore has him as a former gang member. Those who went to high school with him, LAUGH and say, "ARE YOU KIDDING??? LOOK AT HIM! He was hanging out with the cheerleaders and hairdresser crowd.") Antonio, your fancy suits paid for with drug cartel money don't buy you a shred of class, or dignity. And the Westsiders LAUGH at the dumb stuttering puppet who does what they tell him to do.
CAUSE GUESS WHAT, PUNK...READ THIS: Now, CONGRESS IS UP YOUR ASS!:
House investigators wrote the Port of Los Angeles yesterday to review the decision to spend almost half a million dollars in stimulus money on retrofitting a luxury yacht with environmentally-friendly engines.
"The Port of Los Angeles owes the public greater transparency about this project and a full accounting of the cost-benefit analysis used to justify spending on this type of project," House Oversight and Government Reform chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., wrote in a letter to the executive director of the port, Dr. Geraldine Knatz.
The Port of Los Angeles spent $489,000 of a $1.5 million grant from the Department of Energy to retrofit a city-owned yacht with "hydro-electric propulsion system," according to Issa's letter, rather than the diesel engines it already had in operation. The yacht is used to conduct tours of the port.
"This is the American people’s money that was borrowed in stimulus," said House Oversight and Government Reform Chair Darrell Issa in a local CBS broadcast. "It was supposed to create net new jobs. Could that half a million dollars have been used better? Was this really just show without substance?"
Full letter here.
VILLAR WILL BE LUCKY TO AVOID PRISON: He's in DEEP! The Mob pushed him TOO HARD...TOO FAR...and he's in too deep. Same with Huizar. And Wesson's deputy with name that rhymes with "Fall Guy."
ANTONIO: LAHD CITING BUILDING & SAFETY CODE TO BE NEXT INVESTIGATION ALL OVER YOU, BRUTHA! The unsettled gadfly is spending all his unsettled gadfly time, making THAT happen, Brutha! Best believe, Brutha! Ya feel me, Brutha! Ask Wesson what's up with ZD, PUNK-ASS BITCH, BRUTHA!
HERE'S ZUMA DOGG WITH THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA (SCARFACE IS JEALOUS, LIL' BRUTHA!)
