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Community Planning and Development

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2023-FW-1002-001-A
    Closed on Julio 30, 2024

    We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary instruct the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority to develop and implement procedures, including financial controls, to enhance its tracking of payments made with CDBG-DR funds and payments made with FEMA funds to ensure that payments are not made for the same invoices, match requirements are not exceeded before closeout, and a thorough review is conducted for award increases and cost reasonableness.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2023-FW-1002-001-B
    Closed on Octubre 20, 2023

    We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary instruct the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority to enforce its subrecipient agreement requirement to submit monthly status reports.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2023-FW-1002-001-C
    Closed on Julio 30, 2024

    We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary instruct the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority to develop and implement procedures to ensure that all Match Program activities are monitored, and guidance is provided to its Match Program recipients.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2023-FW-1002-001-D
    Closed on Octubre 20, 2023

    We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary instruct the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority to develop and implement detailed policies and procedures to guide staff in reporting performance outcomes in the QPR and on its disaster recovery website.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2023-FW-1002-001-E
    Closed on Julio 30, 2024

    We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary instruct the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority to revise its policies and procedures to include requirements to document its basis for activities’ meeting the national objective, including the rationale for the service area used and a list of acceptable documents to support that the area was primarily residential for the low- and moderate- income area benefit national objective.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2023-FW-1002-001-F
    Closed on Julio 30, 2024

    We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary instruct the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority to conduct training for Authority staff on the newly developed or revised policies and procedures

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2023-FW-1002-001-G

    We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary work with the Authority to assess the risk of potential improper payment for projects PW273 and PW100 and vouchers 576322, 583423, and 578761.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2023-FW-1002-001-H
    Closed on Julio 30, 2024

    We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary require HUD program staff to provide technical assistance to the Authority to address deficiencies noted throughout the audit report.

Community Planning and Development

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2023-FW-1003-001-A
    Closed on Octubre 20, 2023

    We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary instruct the Authority to develop and implement monitoring policies and detailed procedures to guide the Authority’s CMU staff in assessing activity performance to meet the subrecipient monitoring requirements and establish written performance metrics to progressively achieve the performance outcome for those activities the Authority administers.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2023-FW-1003-001-B
    Closed on Octubre 20, 2023

    We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary instruct the Authority to revise subrecipient agreements to include performance metrics and milestones tailored to the activity in sufficient detail to enable the Authority to collect information to effectively assess the activity’s performance.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2023-FW-1003-001-C
    Closed on Octubre 20, 2023

    We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary instruct the Authority to revise the monthly status report template to allow the subrecipient to report its current progress against the established performance metrics.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2023-FW-1003-001-D
    Closed on Marzo 31, 2024

    We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary instruct the Authority to develop a tracking process to ensure that the Authority issues monitoring reports and receives responses to these reports within the timeframe required by its policy. This process should also include a referral to management when the timeframe requirements are not met.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2023-FW-1003-001-E
    Closed on Marzo 31, 2024

    We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary instruct the Authority to develop detailed procedures to ensure that the corrective action tracking process is consistently followed to ensure proper resolution.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2023-FW-1003-001-F
    Closed on Marzo 31, 2024

    We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary instruct the Authority to develop and implement policies and detailed procedures to establish the CMU’s responsibilities related to verifying that the CDBG-DR activity meets the stated national objective.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2023-FW-1003-001-G
    Closed on Marzo 31, 2024

    We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary instruct the Authority to develop and implement policies and detailed procedures to identify the risk analysis process for monitoring all CDBG-DR-funded activities during the course of the activity and require that the monitoring files document the basis for why an activity is or is not monitored.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2023-FW-1003-001-H
    Closed on Marzo 31, 2024

    We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary instruct the Authority to train the CMU staff on the newly developed policies and procedures and obtain technical assistance from HUD as needed.

Other

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2023-IG-002-1
    Prioridad
    Priority

    We believe these open recommendations, if implemented, will have the greatest impact on helping HUD achieve its mission to create strong, sustainable, inclusive communities and quality affordable homes for all.

    HUD (a) identify all contracts related to its programs that pre-date July 1, 2013 and that have not yet been modified to include Section 4712 whistleblower protections; and (b) review all contracts entered into on or after July 1, 2013, to ensure they include a clause that requires contractors to comply with Section 4712.


    Status

    As of June 2024, we have not yet reached agreement on a management decision with HUD over the corrective action they propose to take to address the recommendation.


    Analysis

    To fully address this recommendation, HUD must (a) identify all contracts related to its programs that pre-date July 1, 2013 and that have not yet been modified to include Section 4712 whistleblower protections; and (b) review all contracts entered on or after July 1, 2013, to ensure they include a clause that requires contractors to comply with Section 4712.

    Implementation of this recommendation will ensure that Section 4712 whistleblower protections will apply to all individuals working for HUD contractors.

  •  
    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2023-IG-002-2
    Prioridad
    Priority

    We believe these open recommendations, if implemented, will have the greatest impact on helping HUD achieve its mission to create strong, sustainable, inclusive communities and quality affordable homes for all.

    Seek voluntary cooperation from program participants to proactively modify pre-2013 contracts for the purpose of including a clause requiring compliance with Section 4712.


    Status

    As of June 2024, we have not yet reached agreement on a management decision with HUD over the corrective action they propose to take to address the recommendation.


    Analysis

    To fully address this recommendation, HUD must provide evidence that it has sought voluntary cooperation from program participants to proactively modify pre-2013 contracts for the purpose of including a clause requiring compliance with Section 4712.

    Implementation of this recommendation will ensure that Section 4712 whistleblower protections will apply to all individuals working for HUD contractors.

  •  
    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2023-IG-002-3
    Prioridad
    Priority

    We believe these open recommendations, if implemented, will have the greatest impact on helping HUD achieve its mission to create strong, sustainable, inclusive communities and quality affordable homes for all.

    Use its best efforts to include a clause requiring compliance with Section 4712 at the time of major modifications to contracts with program participants with whom HUD is unable to gain voluntary cooperation.


    Status

    As of June 2024, we have not yet reached agreement on a management decision with HUD over the corrective action they propose to take to address the recommendation.


    Analysis

    To fully address this recommendation, HUD must provide evidence that it has taken steps to ensure that it is including a clause requiring compliance with Section 4712 at the time of major modifications to contracts with program participants with whom HUD is unable to gain voluntary cooperation.

    Implementation of this recommendation will ensure that Section 4712 whistleblower protections will apply to all individuals working for HUD contractors.

  •  
    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2023-IG-002-4

    HUD seek legislative authority to expeditiously include Section 4712 protections within contracts for which HUD believes it must otherwise wait until there is a major modification.