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Special Test – Wage Rate Requirements Criteria – 29 CFR part 5, “Labor Standards Provisions Applicable to Contracts Governing Federally Financed and Assistance Construction”, requires contractors to submit a copy of the payroll and statement of compliance (certified payrolls) weekly. Payrolls should be reviewed by the City to ensure compliance with the wage rate requirements. Condition – Two of three projects’ certified payrolls tested had no evidence of review by the grant administrator. Cause – Procedures have not been designed and implemented to ensure all certified payrolls are reviewed. Effect – The City is not always reviewing certified payrolls to ensure compliance with Federal regulations pertaining to wage rate requirements. Recommendation – The City should implement procedures to ensure certified payrolls are reviewed. The reviews should be documented by the initials or signature of the reviewer and the date of review. Response and Corrective Action Planned – The City will begin to request that ALL supporting documents of an ECIA claim accompanies the claim. This will include (but is not limited to) the certified payrolls, the contractor invoices, time analysis worksheets for ECIA personnel being charged to the grant and reporting from ECIA’s tracking systems. Conclusion – Response accepted.