Austin, TX
United States
Open Recommendations
| Recommendation Number | Significant Recommendation | Recommended Questioned Costs | Recommended Funds for Better Use | Additional Details | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | $0 | $0 | Status as of August 31, 2025 | |
| We recommend that OJP work with Texas OOG to enhance its grant administration policies and procedures to ensure that regular desk reviews and site monitoring of subawards are conducted for all subrecipients in accordance with the VOCA Guidelines and establish a plan to perform site monitoring for those subawards that have not received a site monitoring visit within the last 2 years. | |||||
| 2 | No | $0 | $0 | Status as of August 31, 2025 | |
| We recommend that OJP work with Texas OOG to enhance its subrecipient monitoring to include verification procedures for subrecipient-reported performance data during programmatic reviews. | |||||
| 3 | No | $0 | $0 | Status as of August 31, 2025 | |
| We recommend that OJP work with Texas OOG to revise or to develop and implement a record retention policy that ensures Texas OOG complies with federal grant award requirements. | |||||
| 4 | No | $14,848 | $0 | Status as of August 31, 2025 | |
| We recommend that OJP coordinate with Texas OOG to remedy $14,848 in unsupported personnel costs charged to the VOCA 2022 grant. | |||||
| 5 | No | $0 | $0 | Status as of August 31, 2025 | |
| We recommend that OJP coordinate with Texas OOG to enhance its policies and procedures to ensure that the allocation of personnel costs allocated to the VOCA grants is timely and accurate. | |||||
| 6 | No | $87,476 | $0 | Status as of August 31, 2025 | |
| We recommend that OJP coordinate with Texas OOG to remedy $87,476 in unallowable indirect costs charged to the VOCA 2020 grant. | |||||
| 7 | No | $0 | $0 | Status as of August 31, 2025 | |
| We recommend that OJP coordinate with Texas OOG to develop policies and procedures to ensure that it uses the correct total direct cost base and approved indirect cost rate when calculating indirect costs charged to the VOCA grants. | |||||
| 8 | No | $0 | $0 | Status as of August 31, 2025 | |
| We recommend that OJP work with Texas OOG to enhance its policy and procedures to ensure it accurately reports indirect costs on the FFRs in the quarter the indirect costs were charged to the award. | |||||