Federal program title – Home Partnership Investment Program – HOME loan – CFDA 14.239
Recommendation: CLA recommends the County develop procedures, such as including a compliance checklist in the receivables listing sent to the auditor’s office, to ensure that outstanding loan continuing compliance...
Federal program title – Home Partnership Investment Program – HOME loan – CFDA 14.239
Recommendation: CLA recommends the County develop procedures, such as including a compliance checklist in the receivables listing sent to the auditor’s office, to ensure that outstanding loan continuing compliance is performed timely and documented in accordance with the HOME grant loan provision.
Explanation of disagreement with audit finding: There is no disagreement with the audit finding.
Action taken in response to finding: The Grants department had two employees in FY 22/23. The Grant coordinator and assistant both terminated county employment in fiscal year 22/23 and left virtually no records. Information and materials, they did leave behind were stuffed in boxes and tracking in the electronic workbook was not fully completed. Admin staff trained the Grant employees but was unaware they were not following the process and procedures, and only saving information to their personal computer. Current admin staff requested the documents from prior staff members and they were received, though we are unsure if all were sent. Staff is doing their due diligence and working diligently to get back on track in monitoring activities, and train the newly hired staff. There is insufficient budget to hire the staff needed to fully monitor the Home Program loan efforts.
Name(s) of the contact person(s) responsible for corrective action: Under direction of the County Administrative Officer, the Senior Financial Analyst Suzie Hawkins.
Planned completion date for correcting action plan: Undetermined at this time as the staff continues their current minimal Home Program loan efforts while still maintaining all other duties, and being short staffed. Existing Home Program workload is being closed out as fast as possible.