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  • Recommendation Number: 2023-FW-0001-001-B
  • Status: Closed
  • Date Issued: March 03, 2023
Closed Date:
May 31, 2023

We recommend that the Director of CPD’s Office of Disaster Recovery update DRGR’s QPR to include information on the progress towards compliance with the overall LMI benefit based on the total amount of the grant.

Publication Report

2023-FW-0001 | March 03, 2023

CDBG-DR Program Generally Met Low- and Moderate-Income Requirements

We audited the Office of Community Planning and Development’s (CPD) monitoring and oversight of the Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program.  The objective of the audit was to determine whether CPD had effectively and… more

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Community Planning and Development

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2023-FW-0001-001-A
    $666,666.00
    Questioned Costs

    Recommendations with questioned costs identify costs: (A] resulting from an alleged violation of a law, regulation, contract, grant, or other document or agreement governing the use of Federal funds; (B] that are not supported by adequate documentation (also known as an unsupported cost]; or (C] that appear unnecessary or unreasonable.

    We recommend that the Director of CPD’s Office of Disaster Recovery review the one grantee with a grant totaling $666,666 that did not meet the overall LMI requirement and address the noncompliance.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2023-FW-0001-001-C

    We recommend that the Director of CPD’s Office of Disaster Recovery adopt LMI benchmarking to ensure that grantees budget adequate funds to LMI at significant milestones in the grant lifecycle.

  •  
    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2023-FW-0001-001-D

    We recommend that the Director of CPD’s Office of Disaster Recovery make changes to the action plan process so that the action plan calculates an overall LMI percentage.