Base Year/Reporting Year Change Policy

Working Group Progress

The first working group meeting was held in March 1996. The focus of this meeting was to identify and categorize the types of accuracy problems. The meeting minutes included an extensive table that summarized these problem types and categories. Although most of the problems identified are relevant to urban/rural jurisdictions throughout the state, it should be noted that these problems are compounded in the Los Angeles area due to the large number of waste haulers/landfill operators servicing this densely populated area, and the difficulties in distinguishing jurisdictional boundaries.

The next working group meetings (one in Northern, and one in Southern California) were held in June 1996. The focus of these meetings was to develop some initial assistance for jurisdictions working on their first annual reports which were due on August 1, 1996. Subsequently, a guidance document was mailed to all jurisdictions with instructions on where to begin investigating data problems and included examples of specific data correction methods that jurisdictions could use.

The next working group meetings were conducted in October 1996. The focus of these meetings was to discuss alternative solutions for base-year and reporting-year data problems that could not be corrected. This was in response to concerns some jurisdictions were expressing regarding barriers they faced to correcting their base-year or reporting-year data, such as the unavailability of source information and the time/cost intensiveness of the investigative process.

The focus of the most recent meetings, held in January and February 1997, was to develop a proposed list of acceptable/unacceptable base-year and reporting-year revision methods, with specified criteria for the acceptable methods. Staff had analyzed the types of base-year and reporting-year revisions submitted in the annual reports prior to the meetings and provided an initial evaluation to the working group for discussion purposes. Based on the working group discussions, the list of methods were revised and sent to all working group members, interested parties, and LGTAC for a final review and comment period.

A discussion of the comments received during the final review and comment period, and Board staff’s response, will be available at the time of the March 17 LAPC. Based on this and the Board’s direction, staff can proceed to finalize their analyses of jurisdictions’ goal achievement calculations for 1995 as reported in their 1995 annual reports. Staff will continue to work with jurisdictions that need further assistance in correcting base-year or reporting-year data.

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Last updated: October 26, 2007