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CED-79-113 1 (1979-07-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaazpb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: tZJTR1Ci ED - Mo to be r eamsed Qotside the General Accounting Office except on the basis of specific approval by the Office of Congressional Relations, UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIVISION B-114835 The Honorable Joseph M. McDade Ranking Minority Member Committee on Small Business House of Representatives Dear Mr. McDade: JULY 24, 1979 110204 In an April 23, 1979, letter, you requested that we C examine certain operations of the Small Business Administra- tion's (SBA's) program for Small Business DaeleQpnment CentersV (SBDCs) at California State University, Chico, California; the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia; and the University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine. .,i ; Our review of the SBDCs covered March 1977 through..., March 1979. We used proforma telephone questionnaires to obtain selected clients' perceptions (117 total clients) on the assistance they received and to obtain perceptions of some private firms providing services similar to the SBDCso Because of a limited scope and inconclusive results, we cannot assess the overall effectiveness of the SBDC program. As arranged with your office, this letter merely summarizes the observations we made during our briefing with your office on June 29, 1979. Enclosures I through XV contain the results of our review which were presented at the briefing. OBSERVATIONS (1) Information developed at the three SBDCs is not strongly positive or negative. Although we found that SBDCs are using SBA funds for program purpose , only 20 to 30 percent of expenditures examined at V 3NanW af Athens, respectively, were used for direct services to clients. (See enc. XV.) Client responses to our questionnaire tended to be in favor of the program, while private firms providing similar services tended to express concerns about the program. (See encs. VIII to XI.) CED-79-113 S(077930) IIOLQV RELEASED

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