Tuscan Homes I and II in Hartford, CT, Was Not Always Managed in Accordance With Its Regulatory Agreement and HUD Requirements
Reclassify and properly record $45,000 in owner advances misclassified as loans.
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Tuscan Homes I and II in Hartford, CT, Was Not Always Managed in Accordance With Its Regulatory Agreement and HUD Requirements
Strengthen controls to ensure that project advances are reimbursed only when the project is in a surplus-cash position.
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Tuscan Homes I and II in Hartford, CT, Was Not Always Managed in Accordance With Its Regulatory Agreement and HUD Requirements
Implement adequate controls to ensure the review of the management agent fee to ensure that it is properly calculated in accordance with the HUD management agent certification and approved prior to payment from project operating funds.
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Tuscan Homes I and II in Hartford, CT, Was Not Always Managed in Accordance With Its Regulatory Agreement and HUD Requirements
Implement adequate controls to ensure that project funds are used only for eligible and supported operating expenses.
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Tuscan Homes I and II in Hartford, CT, Was Not Always Managed in Accordance With Its Regulatory Agreement and HUD Requirements
Obtain a formal agreement and approval from HUD to specify who is authorized to use the project’s community and recreation rooms and what activities are authorized or prohibited. In addition, this agreement must ensure that sufficient legal and liability protections are in place, establish Read More
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Tuscan Homes I and II in Hartford, CT, Was Not Always Managed in Accordance With Its Regulatory Agreement and HUD Requirements
Amend the management agent agreement compensation schedule to remove bookkeeping fees as a fee separate from the 8.9 percent management agent fee.
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Union County, NJ'S HOME Investment Partnerships Program Was Not Always Administered in Compliance With Program Requirements
We recommend that the Director of HUD’s Newark, NJ, Office of Community Planning and Development instruct County officials to reimburse $3,536,974 to the County’ HOME program line of credit for assistance spent on the four activities that were partially terminated or noncompliant with program Read More
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Union County, NJ'S HOME Investment Partnerships Program Was Not Always Administered in Compliance With Program Requirements
We recommend that the Director of HUD’s Newark, NJ, Office of Community Planning and Development instruct County officials to strengthen the County’s administrative controls to ensure that its HOME program is reimbursed for assistance spent on terminated or noncompliant activities.
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Union County, NJ'S HOME Investment Partnerships Program Was Not Always Administered in Compliance With Program Requirements
We recommend that the Director of HUD’s Newark, NJ, Office of Community Planning and Development instruct County officials to provide environmental review documentation, such as environmental assessment and a phase I environmental review, for the activity to support compliance with environmental Read More
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Union County, NJ'S HOME Investment Partnerships Program Was Not Always Administered in Compliance With Program Requirements
We recommend that the Director of HUD’s Newark, NJ, Office of Community Planning and Development instruct County officials to provide procurement documentation, such as proof of advertising, bids received, bid analysis reports, contracts, and other documents, for contracts associated with the Read More
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Union County, NJ'S HOME Investment Partnerships Program Was Not Always Administered in Compliance With Program Requirements
We recommend that the Director of HUD’s Newark, NJ, Office of Community Planning and Development instruct County officials to provide disbursement documentation to support the eligibility of the $435,094 made for the two activities or repay the County’s HOME program line of credit from non-Federal Read More
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Union County, NJ'S HOME Investment Partnerships Program Was Not Always Administered in Compliance With Program Requirements
We recommend that the Director of HUD’s Newark, NJ, Office of Community Planning and Development instruct County officials to impose deed restrictions or other mechanisms approved by HUD on the two properties that received HOME assistance of $597,519 to enforce affordability requirements during Read More
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Union County, NJ'S HOME Investment Partnerships Program Was Not Always Administered in Compliance With Program Requirements
We recommend that the Director of HUD’s Newark, NJ, Office of Community Planning and Development instruct County officials to provide documentation to support that laborers associated with the activity are compensated in compliance with Davis-Bacon wage rates. If documentation cannot be provided Read More
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Union County, NJ'S HOME Investment Partnerships Program Was Not Always Administered in Compliance With Program Requirements
We recommend that the Director of HUD’s Newark, NJ, Office of Community Planning and Development instruct County officials to strengthen the County’s administrative controls to ensure compliance with environmental, procurement, and other program requirements.
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Union County, NJ'S HOME Investment Partnerships Program Was Not Always Administered in Compliance With Program Requirements
We recommend that the Director of HUD’s Newark, NJ, Office of Community Planning and Development instruct County officials to provide HOME program training to County staff to ensure compliance with HOME program requirements.
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Union County, NJ'S HOME Investment Partnerships Program Was Not Always Administered in Compliance With Program Requirements
We recommend that the Director of HUD’s Newark, NJ, Office of Community Planning and Development instruct County officials to reallocate the $573,689 awarded to the ineligible CHDO, thus ensure that the fund is put to better use.
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Union County, NJ'S HOME Investment Partnerships Program Was Not Always Administered in Compliance With Program Requirements
We recommend that the Director of HUD’s Newark, NJ, Office of Community Planning and Development instruct County officials to reimburse $242,269 to the County’s HOME program line of credit for CHDO reserve fund disbursed to the ineligible CHDO.
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Union County, NJ'S HOME Investment Partnerships Program Was Not Always Administered in Compliance With Program Requirements
We recommend that the Director of HUD’s Newark, NJ, Office of Community Planning and Development instruct County officials to provide documentation to support that at least one-third of the Homefirst board were representatives of a low-income community. If documentation cannot be provided, Read More
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Union County, NJ'S HOME Investment Partnerships Program Was Not Always Administered in Compliance With Program Requirements
We recommend that the Director of HUD’s Newark, NJ, Office of Community Planning and Development instruct County officials to reimburse the $536,507 in program income to the County’s HOME program local bank account and record the income in IDIS.
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Union County, NJ'S HOME Investment Partnerships Program Was Not Always Administered in Compliance With Program Requirements
We recommend that the Director of HUD’s Newark, NJ, Office of Community Planning and Development instruct County officials to reconcile the County’s carryover balance of HOME match as of September 30, 2015, for the ineligible HOME match contributions and the understated HOME match contributions.
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