2026 HOME AUDIT 1. Establish Annual Monitoring Plan ● Action: Create a formalized Annual Monitoring Plan based on subrecipient risk assessments and total annual federal funding. ○ Tiered Oversight: ■ High Risk: Required on-site visits (or deep-dive virtual audits) ■ Medium/Low Risk: Desk reviews and annual check-ins, sampling beneficiaries for eligibility. ■ Funding amount: Activities with $750,000 or more in federal funding (inclusive of all federal assistance) must undertake a single audit in addition to monitoring ● Completion Date: 2/27/2026 ● Responsible: Community Development Division Manager, Community Development Analysts ● Content: The plan will explicitly list which subrecipients are slated for which type of review each year. ● Documentation: Approved Annual Monitoring plan 2. Training and Capacity Building ● Action: All Community Development staff will undergo monitoring training ● Completion Date: 2/27/2026 ● Responsible: Community Development Manager, Community Development Analysts, Community Development Coordinator ● Content: Training will cover compliance requirements, identifying "red flags", confirming beneficiary eligibility, and internal monitoring Standard Operating Procedures and checklists. ● Documentation: Training logs and updated job aids. 3. Implementation & Execution ● Action: Initiate monitoring activities, prioritizing Higher Risk subrecipients identified in the initial assessment, and requesting single audits from subrecipients who received more than $750,000 in federal funding ● Completion Date: 6/30/2026 and on-going ● Responsible: Community Development Analysts, Community Development Coordinator ● Content: Analysts will produce written monitoring reports for each review following established policies and checklists for each program, which the Community Development Manager will sign off on. ● Documentation: Approved monitoring reports will be recorded and accessible for reference