FISCAL YEAR OF FINDING: 2023
AUDITOR FINDING:
1. At the time of the award – County did not make subrecipients aware of Federal Assistance Listing Number or title.
2. Risk Assessment could not be provided for 2022 or 2023 to support the level of monitoring.
3. Audited financials for family tree for...
FISCAL YEAR OF FINDING: 2023
AUDITOR FINDING:
1. At the time of the award – County did not make subrecipients aware of Federal Assistance Listing Number or title.
2. Risk Assessment could not be provided for 2022 or 2023 to support the level of monitoring.
3. Audited financials for family tree for 2022 or 2023 were not obtained by the County.
4. Family Tree did not have any case review monitoring performed during 2023 – October 15, 2022.
Criteria:
Condition: During testing, we noted the following: - The Assistance Listings number and Title were not provided to the County's two subrecipients in accordance with 2 CFR Part 200.332(a) - The County did not have a formal documented risk assessment completed for either of the County's two subrecipients in accordance with 2 CFR Part 200.332(b) - The County did not obtain or review one of the subrecipients single audit reports in accordance with 2 CFR Part 200.332(f)
Effect: The subrecipient may be unaware whether the funds are federal or what compliance requirements they are responsible for. In addition, The County may not perform the adequate level of monitoring as formal risk assessments were not completed. Finaly, the County did not review the single audit report and while any finding would not directly be related to the subaward program, failure to review such reports and take appropriate action could result in non-compliance by the subrecipient continuing for an inappropriate length of time.
Cause: The County does not have adequate internal controls over subrecipient monitoring to ensure that the County is in compliance with subrecipient monitoring requirements.
Recommendation: We recommend that the County develop a risk assessment template or form to be completed over each federal subrecipient. The County should provide training to those administering grants over the development risk assessment template or form and the associated monitoring to be performed based on each assessed risk. In addition, the County should develop a subrecipient grant template to help ensure all required information is included within each award. Finally, the County should establish a policy or procedure over obtaining and reviewing audits completed over each of their subrecipients.
CLIENT PLANNED ACTION:
1. On 4/8/24, Jefferson County sent the two ERA subrecipients the Federal Assistance Listing Number. The County policy is to include the Subaward Data Form, which includes the Federal Assistance Listing Number (see attached), as an Exhibit in all subrecipient contracts. This was inadvertently not included in the ERA contract.
2. On 4/8/24, Jefferson County completed a formal Risk Assessments for both The Action Center and Family Tree and placed in the files. The two subrecipients are long-time partners and federal fund recipients and have undergone continuous scrutiny through regular monitoring, and a rigorous draw reimbursement process. Due to this history and knowledge, both partners were determined to be very low risk at the time of ERA awards. Moving forward, the County will complete a formal Risk Assessment for the records prior to the execution of a contract or within 6 months of execution of a contract.
3. The County has now collected the audited financial statements for the two subrecipients and retained them in the files. Subrecipient audits are regularly reviewed as part of the monitoring process to assess for any findings or concerns. Moving forward, the County will obtain the most recent audit reports and place them in the files prior to the execution of a contract or within 6 months of execution of a contract.
4. The County performed a monitoring including the scrutiny of 20% of all case files during the 2022 ERA Program and there were no findings. The County had plans to monitor the ERA2 Program at the time of this audit, after the program was running at full capacity. The County has now moved up this time frame according to the above feedback and is currently undergoing a monitoring of the 2023 cases from the two subrecipients. This process aligns with the previous year, as the program has more time during the early spring months when cases are slower. Monitoring of subrecipients began the week of April 8th.
CLIENT RESPONSIBLE PARTY: Kat Douglas, Community and Workforce Development Director
COMPLETION DATE: 6/25/24