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Contract: 90ET0478-03 & 90ET0478-01-C3 CARES Assistance Listing Number: 93.569 Criteria: Uniform Guidance requires CSBG grantees to determine that there is reasonable assurance that the CSBG funds provided to subrecipients are adequately protected, and that services were provided to the community as expected. Condition: During performance of audit procedures related to UG requirements, it was noted that the Association did not perform monitoring of its RPIC subrecipients during either FY21 OR FY22 Cause/Effect: The last evidence of monitoring was in 2018. In March 2020, COVID-19 was declared as a national pandemic and many businesses closed, or had restricted operations, which limited the ability to perform adequate monitoring procedures. There was no evidence that efforts have been made to recommence monitoring of OKACAA?s subrecipients during FY21. For FY22, OKACAA did establish a timeline for monitoring in their Corrective Action Plan, however, this timeline did not allow for monitoring to commence until FY23. Because of the failure to monitor for two fiscal years, OKACAA is out of compliance with UG requirements. Recommendation: A Management Letter was issued in FY ?20 addressing this issue. Failure to properly monitor OKACAA?s subrecipients has the potential to allow serious errors or irregularities such as fraud to occur and go undetected due to a lack of adequate oversight. SAUNDERS & ASSOCIATES, PLLC recommends that in addition to the time table for monitoring of subrecipients established by management, OKACAA ensure monitoring is conducted annually as required by Uniform Guidance. Reply: See Corrective Action Plan.