Overview
For all three Massachusetts Public Library Construction Program projects completed during our audit period, the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners (MBLC) did not perform comprehensive post-construction evaluations and thus, in the Office of the State Auditor’s opinion, limited its ability to determine whether each project was conducted so as to fully meet the needs of the community.
MBLC should perform a review of its documentation on file (application, letter of intent, needs assessment, and construction contract, along with the data in its Annual Report Information Survey database) to develop reports to perform post-construction evaluations of projects to determine whether each has fully met the needs of the community.
MBLC officials responded to this issue as follows:
The agency does conduct post-construction evaluations, including walkthroughs of the building site, confirmation that the project is completed as designed, and meetings with library directors and designers.
The recommendation that the MBLC should develop reports of such post-construction evaluations is an item that the agency is already undertaking for future projects, but it is accurate that it was not something that was developed for the three projects completed during the audit period.
| Date published: | July 10, 2018 |
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