We recommend that the Director of HUD’s Newark, NJ, Office of Community Planning and Development require the County to strengthen its policies and procedures to ensure that environmental reviews and environmental review exemptions are completed and documented before HOME funds are committed.

We recommend that the Director of HUD’s Newark, NJ, Office of Community Planning and Development require the County to strengthen its policies and procedures to ensure that activity address information in IDIS is current as required.

Submit all supporting documentation showing the eligibility and propriety of the $47,720 in unsupported matching contributions towards the ESG program or reimburse the ESG program from non-Federal funds.

Reconcile the data included in its CAPER with the data in its financial management system and correct any inaccurate information reported to HUD.

Develop and implement policies and procedures to ensure that its required matching contributions are properly supported.

Develop and implement policies and procedures to ensure that it reports data through its CAPERs using data from its own financial management system instead of data from HUD’s information system.

Adequately support or reimburse its NSP3 grant subrecipient $53,760 from non-Federal funds for the disbursements not adequately supported.

Update its records retention policy to meet HUD’s records retention requirements and notify its NSP subrecipients of the documentation retention requirements for the NSP grants.

Develop a retention strategy for its subrecipients to ensure that documentation is readily available for review.

Deobligate all obligations marked for deobligation during the departmentwide OOR, including as much as $11,463,971 in 189 program obligations and $13,640 in 10 administrative obligations marked for deobligation as of September 30, 2017.

Review the 1,110 identified inactive retained obligations with remaining balances totaling $229,327,332 and close out and deobligate amounts tied to obligations that are no longer valid or needed.

Close out and deobligate the remaining balances on 2,741 expired homeless assistance contracts of $159,437,069.

Deobligate all obligations marked for deobligation during the departmentwide OOR, including as much as $264,476 in 108 administrative obligations marked for deobligation as of September 30, 2017.

The OIG has determined that the contents of this recommendation would not be appropriate for public disclosure and has therefore limited its distribution to selected officials.

The OIG has determined that the contents of this recommendation would not be appropriate for public disclosure and has therefore limited its distribution to selected officials.

The OIG has determined that the contents of this recommendation would not be appropriate for public disclosure and has therefore limited its distribution to selected officials.

The OIG has determined that the contents of this recommendation would not be appropriate for public disclosure and has therefore limited its distribution to selected officials.

The OIG has determined that the contents of this recommendation would not be appropriate for public disclosure and has therefore limited its distribution to selected officials.

The OIG has determined that the contents of this recommendation would not be appropriate for public disclosure and has therefore limited its distribution to selected officials.

The OIG has determined that the contents of this recommendation would not be appropriate for public disclosure and has therefore limited its distribution to selected officials.