Audit of the Office of Justice Programs Victim Assistance Grants Awarded to the Montana Board of Crime Control, Helena, Montana

Submitting OIG:

Department of Justice OIG

Date Issued:

Thursday, June 6, 2024

Agency Reviewed / Investigated:

Department of Justice

Submitting OIG-Specific Report Number:

24-073

Component, if applicable:

Office of Justice Programs

External entity, if applicable:

Montana Board of Crime Control

Location(s):

Helena, MT

United States

Type of Report:

Audit

Questioned Costs:

Funds for Better Use:

Number of Recommendations:

Report updated under NDAA 5274:

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24-073.pdf	5.68 MB

Recommendation Number	Recommendation Status	Additional Details
1	Open	https://oig.justice.gov/reports
Work with Montana BCC to enhance its existing policies and procedures to include clearly defined, measurable, and VOCA-compliant subrecipient monitoring requirements for the timing and frequency of desk reviews and on-site visits.
2	Open	https://oig.justice.gov/reports
Work with Montana BCC to design and implement a monitoring plan that clearly demonstrates how planned and completed activities will fulfill its risk-based monitoring requirements.
3	Open	https://oig.justice.gov/reports
Work with Montana BCC to enhance its existing policies and procedures to provide substantive guidance on the nature and scope of activities monitoring personnel are expected to perform and to ensure desk reviews and on-site visits are adequately documented and the records maintained.
4	Open	https://oig.justice.gov/reports
Work with Montana BCC to reassess its existing policies and practices for reviewing subrecipient expenditures to ensure Montana BCC has adequate controls in place for the review of subrecipient expenditures to ensure they are properly approved, allowable, and adequately supported.
5	Open	https://oig.justice.gov/reports
Work with Montana BCC to enhance its existing policies and procedures to address the issuance of management decision letters and ensure corrective action is taken on related subrecipient single audit report findings.
6	Open	https://oig.justice.gov/reports
Work with Montana BCC to enhance its existing policies and procedures to ensure subrecipient Performance Measurement Tool (PMT) data is verified as complete and accurate.

Recommendation Number

Recommendation Status

Significant Recommendation

Additional Details

Open

https://oig.justice.gov/reports

Work with Montana BCC to enhance its existing policies and procedures to include clearly defined, measurable, and VOCA-compliant subrecipient monitoring requirements for the timing and frequency of desk reviews and on-site visits.

Open

https://oig.justice.gov/reports

Work with Montana BCC to design and implement a monitoring plan that clearly demonstrates how planned and completed activities will fulfill its risk-based monitoring requirements.

Open

https://oig.justice.gov/reports