Finding Text
2022-002 Compliance with FEMA Reporting Requirements
Federal Program: Public Assistance - Disaster Grants, Assistance Listing Number 97.036
Criteria: Reporting requirements of the Public Assistance - Disaster Grants mandate that quarterly performance reports be submitted to the grantor within 30 days after the end of each quarter.
Condition/Context: The Office submitted the quarterly report for the quarter ended March 31, 2022 after the 30-day deadline. Reports for the remaining quarters were not submitted.
Statistically Valid Sample: N/A
Cause: Reports were not submitted timely for the first quarter of 2022 and not submitted after this quarter due to turnover in staff responsible for grant reporting.
Questioned Costs: None.
Recommendation: We recommend that the Office implement procedures to ensure that all reports are properly submitted by the required deadlines.
Views of responsible officials and planned corrective action: The Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office is delinquent in filing quarterly performance reports. The task of filing the reports fell on the Internal Auditor/FEMA Auditor. This employee retired May 2021 and has not been replaced as of this filing. We have requested that our Attorneys who taken the lead with communications and submissions to FEMA and GOHSEP file all of the delinquent reports and continue to file them until these critical positions are filled.