We recommend that the Fort Worth Office of Community Planning and Development Director require the City to provide a detailed plan for covering the cost of any potential warranty work needed on these 13 properties for the entire statutory warranty period.

We recommend that the Fort Worth Office of Community Planning and Development Director require the City to support or reduce its match contributions by $2,967,568 and review its HOME match contributions for the past 5 years for compliance with HOME regulations and report the results to the Fort Worth Office of Community Planning and Development.

We recommend that the Fort Worth Office of Community Planning and Development Director require the City to develop and adopt policies and procedures to address HOME match contribution requirements.

We recommend that the Fort Worth Office of Community Planning and Development Director require the City to ensure that the loan agreements are signed and valid legal instruments.

We recommend that the Fort Worth Office of Community Planning and Development Director require the City to develop policies and procedures, to include the review of all subcontractors in SAM.

We recommend that the Fort Worth Office of Community Planning and Development Director require the City to ensure that its staff understands and complies its policies and procedures including HOME income requirements.

We recommend that HUD’s Acting Director for the Office of Block Grant Assistance require the Texas General Land Office to review and update its internal controls throughout the grant cycle to ensure that the procurement and expenditure policies and procedures are implemented and working as designed, including the Federal prohibition of cost plus percentage of cost contracts.

We recommend that HUD’s Acting Director for the Office of Block Grant Assistance require the Texas General Land Office to fill vacancies, ensuring that staffing levels remain adequate to administer Hurricane Harvey disaster grant funds.

We recommend that HUD’s Acting Director for the Office of Block Grant Assistance require the Texas General Land Office to negotiate with SBA to extend its data-sharing agreements for the term of the expenditure requirements set forth in public laws or the Federal Register.

We recommend that HUD’s Acting Director for the Office of Block Grant Assistance require the Texas General Land Office to initiate negotiations with the Texas Department of Insurance to establish data-sharing agreements for the Hurricane Harvey disaster, any open disaster recovery grants, and future disasters.

We recommend that HUD’s Acting Director for the Office of Block Grant Assistance require the Texas General Land Office to ensure that false statement and false claim warnings are included in all of its contract-related forms.

Support the $797,222 in code enforcement costs, including meeting code enforcement and salary and benefits requirements, or repay its program from non-Federal funds.

Develop and implement written policies and procedures to define deteriorated or deteriorating areas, which would apply to its CDBG-eligible target areas, and establish a written plan for using the program, in conjunction with public or private improvements, rehabilitation, or services, that may be expected to arrest the decline in CDBG-eligible target areas.

Develop and implement written procedures and controls to properly track and charge code enforcement officers’ costs among different CDBG activities and other funding sources.

Provide training to code enforcement staff on HUD CDBG regulations and requirements.

Amend its 2015 annual action plan to include the Main Street Revitalization program.

Implement controls and procedures to ensure that all future action plans include all methods of distributing grant funds or amend the plan as required if programs are added after approval.

Support the unsupported amount of match for its subgrantee or repay HUD $54,473 from non-Federal funds (appendix D).

Support sampled retroactive payroll costs totaling $12,109, which correspond to the actual time attributed to grants CA0689L9D011502, CA0880L9D011501, CA0881L9D011501, and CA0945L9D011506, or reimburse HUD from non-Federal funds.

We recommend that the Director of HUD’s New Orleans Office of Community Planning and Development require the Parish to develop and implement a HUD-approved written plan and procedures and take actions that will correct and prevent the deficiencies noted in the finding, improve program administration effectiveness, strengthen the control environment, ensure compliance with HUD regulations and its own policies and procedures, and ensure that it has the continuing capacity to carry out its HOME program activities as required. Implementing this recommendation should ensure that the $216,663 in HOME funding allocated for the Parish’s property rehabilitation program is better used.