FINDING 2024-003 Finding Subject: COVID-19 - Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds - Reporting Contact Person Responsible for Corrective Action: Dana Gault, Controller Contact Phone Number and Email Address: 765-382-3762 dgault@cityofmarion.in.gov Views of Responsible Officials: We concu...
FINDING 2024-003 Finding Subject: COVID-19 - Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds - Reporting Contact Person Responsible for Corrective Action: Dana Gault, Controller Contact Phone Number and Email Address: 765-382-3762 dgault@cityofmarion.in.gov Views of Responsible Officials: We concur with the finding. Explanation: While the City concurs with the finding that funds were reported as expended in the April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024 program reporting period, while in fact, these funds were merely transferred from the City’s American Rescue Plan Act Local Fiscal Recovery Fund to accounts for the City’s Redevelopment Commission and Airport Authority, and were not actually expended during said program reporting period from the accounts to which they had been transferred. The City wishes to make it clear that the City made the relevant transfers appropriately and did so to advance permissible programs and projects under the Award Terms and Conditions of the City’s Local Fiscal Recovery Fund Program award. At all times, the City maintained awareness of the funds in question and the status of the programs and projects being undertaken by the Redevelopment Commission and Airport Authority, respectively. The only matter with which the City concurs is the finding that, for purposes of reporting in the City’s Project and Expenditure Report, these funds were in fact transferred to allow the Redevelopment Commission and Airport Authority, respectively, to expend the funds, and that this transfer was reported as an expenditure of such funds in error. Description of Corrective Action Plan: The Deputy Controller will prepare the report and the Controller and the Financial Advisor will review and approve the current reporting period dates and data are correct. We will update the INTERNAL CONTROL to require that the Deputy Controller, Controller and Financial Advisor will include in their preparation and review, identification of the specific expenditure underlying any report of expended funds to avoid future incidents of a transfer of funds being mischaracterized as an expenditure of funds. Anticipated Completion Date: December 31, 2025