The City of Fresno, CA, Did Not Administer Its Community Development Block Grant in Accordance With HUD Requirements
Repay the program $19,919 from non-Federal funds for ineligible antigraffiti program salary costs.
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The City of Fresno, CA, Did Not Administer Its Community Development Block Grant in Accordance With HUD Requirements
Support the eligibility of the $1,107,000 in after school program costs, including meeting the limited clientele national objective, or repay the program from non-Federal funds.
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The City of Fresno, CA, Did Not Administer Its Community Development Block Grant in Accordance With HUD Requirements
Support the eligibility of the $218,028 in antigraffiti costs or repay the program from non-Federal funds.
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The City of Fresno, CA, Did Not Administer Its Community Development Block Grant in Accordance With HUD Requirements
Support the eligibility of the $55,000 subrecipient drawdown or repay the program from non-Federal funds.
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The City of Fresno, CA, Did Not Administer Its Community Development Block Grant in Accordance With HUD Requirements
Develop and implement written code enforcement policies and procedures to meet CDBG requirements or amend the funding for another CDBG-eligible project. Improving code enforcement controls will result in $428,373 in funds to be put to better use.
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The City of Fresno, CA, Did Not Administer Its Community Development Block Grant in Accordance With HUD Requirements
Execute contractual agreements with each CDBG recipient department to ensure compliance with all Federal guidelines.
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The City of Fresno, CA, Did Not Administer Its Community Development Block Grant in Accordance With HUD Requirements
Develop and implement written policies and procedures for specific departments, update and implement CDBG-specific written policies and procedures, and provide formal training and technical assistance to the Development and Resource Management Department employees to ensure that they understand Read More
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The City of Fresno, CA, Did Not Administer Its Community Development Block Grant in Accordance With HUD Requirements
Develop and implement a monitoring program within the City’s Development and Resource Management Department to ensure that it periodically monitors and provides guidance to its subrecipient(s) and City departments on how to administer CDBG funds.
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The City of Hattiesburg, MS, Did Not Always Administer Its HOME Investment Partnerships Program in Accordance With HUD's and Its Own Requirements
Require the City to support $441,202 ($370,729 $20,000 $50,473) or reimburse its program from non-Federal funds for commitments and expenditures not adequately supported.
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The City of Hattiesburg, MS, Did Not Always Administer Its HOME Investment Partnerships Program in Accordance With HUD's and Its Own Requirements
Require the City to reimburse its program $33,258 from non-Federal funds for inappropriate costs incurred before the written agreements were executed.
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The City of Hattiesburg, MS, Did Not Always Administer Its HOME Investment Partnerships Program in Accordance With HUD's and Its Own Requirements
Recapture and thereby put $32,019 to better use, which the City did not commit by its 24-month statutory commitment deadline in fiscal year 2015 funding for activity 1464.
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The City of Hattiesburg, MS, Did Not Always Administer Its HOME Investment Partnerships Program in Accordance With HUD's and Its Own Requirements
Require the City to develop and implement HOME procedures, including training for the City’s employees, to ensure that (1) commitments are accurately entered into IDIS to maintain data integrity and (2) the HOME program is administered in accordance with HUD’s and its own requirements.
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The City of Hattiesburg, MS, Did Not Always Administer Its HOME Investment Partnerships Program in Accordance With HUD's and Its Own Requirements
Verify that the remaining 14 (Footnote 5 - As detailed in the Scope and Methodology section of this report, we reviewed 23 of the 37 commitments entered into IDIS by the City.) commitments made during the period January 1, 2013, through December 31, 2017, were properly supported with written Read More
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The City of Hattiesburg, MS, Did Not Always Administer Its HOME Investment Partnerships Program in Accordance With HUD's and Its Own Requirements
Require the City to follow its newly developed policy regarding the execution of a written agreement that is signed and dated by all parties before the commitment of any funds in IDIS.
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The City of Hawthorne, CA, Did Not Administer Its Community Development Block Grant Program Cost Allocations in Accordance With HUD Rules and Requirements
Provide adequate supporting documentation for the $1,628,130 in unsupported salary and benefit costs or repay the CDBG program from non-Federal funds.
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The City of Hawthorne Inappropriately Used Nearly $1.6 Million in HOME Funds for Section 8 Tenants
Reimburse its HOME program $1,595,113 from non-Federal funds for HOME funds that were inappropriately used on Section 8 housing assistance payments.
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The City of Houston, Houston, TX, Faced Challenges in Administering Its Hurricane Harvey Program and Risked Losing Its Funding
We recommend that the Director of the Office of Block Grant Assistance require the Texas GLO to include milestones and appropriate consequences for not meeting those milestones in future subrecipient agreements to ensure that expenditure deadlines remain on track. Implementing this recommendation Read More
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The City of Houston, Houston, TX, Faced Challenges in Administering Its Hurricane Harvey Program and Risked Losing Its Funding
We recommend that the Director of the Office of Block Grant Assistance require the Texas GLO to provide its plan to ensure that processes are in place to assist those participants transitioning from the City’s programs to the Texas GLO’s programs.
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The City of Houston, Houston, TX, Faced Challenges in Administering Its Hurricane Harvey Program and Risked Losing Its Funding
With HUD’s approval of action plan amendment 8, we recommend that the Director of the Office of Block Grant Assistance require the Texas GLO to provide its plan to continuously monitor the City’s pace and performance in its remaining Hurricane Harvey CDBG-DR program and take appropriate action to Read More
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The City of Houston, Houston, TX, Faced Challenges in Administering Its Hurricane Harvey Program and Risked Losing Its Funding
With HUD’s approval of action plan amendment 8, we recommend that the Director of the Office of Block Grant Assistance require the Texas GLO to set performance and financial milestones, including approval of the City’s projects and obligation and expenditure of funds, for all programs and Read More
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