California Faces Losing $93M in Weatherization Funds

Washington, Feb 4 – State agencies should set realistic performance goals and proactively establish standard procedures for managing American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to avoid such obstacles California faces in implementing its Recovery Act Weatherization program. As of Dec. 1, 2009, no homes in the state had been weatherized using Recovery Act funds even though the U.S. Department of Energy six months earlier made some $93 million available to the state Department of Community Services and Development.

If the state does not meet certain program milestones by Sept. 30, 2010, it may lose the remaining $93 million of its total $186 million Weatherization program award, according to the California state auditor.