Support that $2,687 in payments to the board member for legal services was allowed through a HUD-approved waiver that occurred before the legal services or repay HUD from non-Federal funds.
2020-LA-1001 | January 31, 2020
Community Action North Bay, Fairfield, CA, Did Not Administer Its Continuum of Care Program in Accordance With HUD Requirements
Community Planning and Development
- Status2020-LA-1001-003-AOpenClosed$2,687Questioned 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.
2020-KC-0002 | January 31, 2020
HUD’s Travel Cards Were Used for Illegal, Improper, or Erroneous Purchases and Were Not Always Used When Required
Chief Financial Officer
- Status2020-KC-0002-001-AOpenClosed
Suspend the travel cards for 35 employees who made 166 improper, illegal, or erroneous purchases, if warranted based on the nature of misuse, and coordinate with the related program offices, the Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer, and the Office of Employee Labor Relations to take appropriate disciplinary actions against these employees and their supervisors who did not follow up on the monitoring reports.
- Status2020-KC-0002-001-BOpenClosed
Ensure that ARC has properly updated the monitoring report criteria to include transaction categories that were previously missing from the monitoring reports.
- Status2020-KC-0002-001-COpenClosed
Coordinate with the Office of Employee Labor Relations and the Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer to update HUD’s travel card policy with the table of penalties and disciplinary actions for travel card misuse and provide the updated policy and tiered instructions for disciplinary actions to administrative officers and approving officials.
- Status2020-KC-0002-001-DOpenClosed
Require program offices to report all disciplinary actions taken against employees who made improper purchases.
- Status2020-KC-0002-001-EOpenClosed
Generate a periodic report of travel cards for employees who do not travel and cancel the travel cards if not needed.
- Status2020-KC-0002-001-FOpenClosed
Inform all travel cardholders and approving officials about specific travel program requirements and repercussions for disregarding these requirements.
- Status2020-KC-0002-001-GOpenClosed
Verify with ARC on a regular basis that all travel cardholders have completed their training as required.
- Status2020-KC-0002-001-HOpenClosed
Require justification and approval for selecting a nonrefundable rate in the travel system comments section.
- Status2020-KC-0002-002-AOpenClosed
Generate a periodic monitoring report that would identify employees who did not use their government travel card when required and send this report to employees’ supervisors and the Assistant Secretary of related program offices for proper action.
- Status2020-KC-0002-002-BOpenClosed
Require justification and approval in the travel system comments section when requesting lodging expense reimbursement to the traveler’s bank account.
- Status2020-KC-0002-002-COpenClosed
Update HUD’s travel card policy to require approving officials’ review of travel documents for appropriate methods of payment and work with the Office of Employee Labor Relations and the Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer to prescribe disciplinary actions for not using the government travel card when required.
- Status2020-KC-0002-002-DOpenClosed
Inform all HUD travel cardholders and approving officials about the mandatory use of the government travel card and disciplinary actions for not using it.
- Status2020-KC-0002-002-EOpenClosed
Follow up with the 19 employees identified as failing to use their government travel card and coordinate with the related program offices to ensure these employees receive training, counseling or other appropriate disciplinary action, if necessary, on the mandatory use of the government travel card.
2020-CH-1002 | December 12, 2019
The Wausau Community Development Authority, Wausau, WI, Generally Complied With HUD’s and Its Own Requirements Regarding Housing Quality Standards Inspections
Public and Indian Housing
- Status2020-CH-1002-001-AOpenClosed
Develop and implement adequate enforcement procedures that support its policy and ensure that housing quality standards deficiencies are corrected in a timely manner.
2020-DE-1001 | November 26, 2019
Del Norte Neighborhood Development Corporation
Community Planning and Development
- Status2020-DE-1001-001-AOpenClosed$37,000Questioned 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.
Work with the City of Denver Office of Economic Development to recapture $37,000 in HOME funds not properly used for the affordable housing projects.
- Status2020-DE-1001-001-BOpenClosed
Require Del Norte to develop policies and procedures to prevent ineligible affordability period transfers.
2020-FO-0001 | November 14, 2019
Fiscal Years 2019 and 2018 Financial Statements Audit
Housing
- Status2020-FO-0001-001-AOpenClosed
Ensure that the HECM cash flow model assumptions capture all valid assignments or provide an analysis showing that the model results are not biased due to the exclusion of valid HECM assignments.
- Status2020-FO-0001-001-BOpenClosed
Document and implement policies and procedures to ensure that data observations for key assumptions that are inconsistent with FHA’s understanding of program operations are researched and further analyzed and that all results are concurrently documented and included in the model documentation.
- Status2020-FO-0001-001-COpenClosed
Update the posting models to ensure that refunds relating to payments made in prior years are properly recorded in accordance with OMB Circular A-11.