December 9, 2022 Cognizant or Oversight Agency for Audit: Local Area Workforce Development North Central respectfully submits the following corrective action plan for the year ended June 30, 2022. Name and address of independent public accounting firm: Ortiz, Rivera, Rivera & Co., Suite 152, PO Box 70250, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-7250. Audit period: Fiscal year ended June 30, 2022. The finding from the June 30, 2022 schedule of findings and questioned costs are discussed below. The findings are numbered consistently with the numbers assigned in the schedule. FINDINGS AND QUESTIONED COSTS - MAJOR FEDERAL AWARD PROGRAM AUDIT ? Reportable Condition: See condition 2022-001 Recommendation The Local Area must review the expenditures and perform measures to ensure that earmarking expenditure requirements being met throughout the year of each grant. Action Taken The North Central Workforce Development Area is working on public policies to make the Work Experience and Internship activities for the youth program more attractive, during the COVID 19 pandemic may young people did not want to participate in our programs for fear of exposure and getting infected. We are monitoring and identifying strategies to identify participants who need work experience in order to meet the twenty percent mark. Several of the strategies we are using are the following: ? Visiting Schools ? Direct communication with the Educational Region ? Active Participation in the communities With these strategies we are hopeful that we will reach the twenty percent mark. If the Cognizant or Oversight Agency for Audit has questions regarding this plan, please call Gisela E. Ferrer Ruiz, Title I-B Director, at (787) 879-4439. Cordially, Samaris Tejada Cruz Executive Director