Open Recommendations

Require Snohomish County to develop and implement written policies and procedures to provide subrecipients with the necessary federal funding information, which will help promote appropriate management of federal funds that complies with the Uniform Guidance and the DOJ Grants Financial Guide.

Require Snohomish County to develop and implement written policies and procedures for subrecipient monitoring, to include financial monitoring and performance monitoring, to ensure Snohomish County monitors subrecipients in accordance with the Uniform Guidance.

Ensure that Snohomish County performs financial monitoring as required by the Uniform Guidance and the recently developed and implemented Snohomish County's monitoring policy.

Require Snohomish County to develop and implement written policies and procedures to ensure subrecipient performance reports are reviewed for accuracy.

Require Snohomish County to develop and implement controls to ensure that only allowable and supported costs are charged to the COSSUP grant.

Remedy $14,075 in unallowable questioned costs associated with the following issues:
a. $2,537 in unallowable fringe benefit costs.

Remedy $14,075 in unallowable questioned costs associated with the following issues:
b. $2,053 in unallowable client flex fund costs.

Remedy $14,075 in unallowable questioned costs associated with the following issues:
c. $7,335 in unallowable other non-personnel costs.

Remedy $14,075 in unallowable questioned costs associated with the following issues:
d. $2,150 in unallowable indirect costs.

Ensure the CVG PD, in conjunction with the Airport Board, updates procurement policies and procedures to verify vendors for all qualified purchases are registered in SAM.gov and are not suspended or debarred.

Ensure the CVG PD, in conjunction with the Airport Board, updates the property management policies and processes to fully comply with OMB's Uniform Guidance requirements, and that the CVG PD updates its equitable sharing property records based upon those requirements.

Verify that Leo Baeck Education Center corrects the instances of material noncompliance detailed on pages 22 to 25 of the audit report.

We recommend the San Diego Sector Chief, Border Patrol, CBP, implement and regularly monitor quality assurance mechanisms at short-term holding facilities to ensure detainee high-dollar currency amounts and other valuable property are itemized, documented, securely stored, and transited with detainees when they are transferred, repatriated, or released.

We recommend the San Diego Field Office Director, OFO, CBP, implement and regularly monitor quality assurance mechanisms at short-term holding facilities to ensure detainee high-dollar currency amounts and other valuable property are itemized, documented, securely stored, and transited with detainees when they are transferred, repatriated, or released.

We recommend the Office of Chief Medical Officer, CBP, ensure the medical contractors are following the Migrant Foreign Medications Validation Guidance and identify corrective actions to reduce the number of CBP-purchased prescriptions that are discarded.

We recommend the San Diego Sector Chief, Border Patrol, CBP, complete the scheduled antimicrobial coating project of the Chula Vista Border Patrol station holding rooms.

We recommend FEMA’s Administrator communicate non-Federal cost share requirements to grant recipients.

We recommend FEMA’s Administrator obtain the necessary supporting documentation or begin the process to recover $199,083 in Federal reimbursements resulting from $281,045 in unallowable costs for two PSGP recipients to meet their respective cost shares.

We recommend FEMA’s Administrator modify the applicant risk review process to use histories of past noncompliance and document the risk analysis and determination when assessing an applicant’s overall risk level.

We recommend FEMA’s Administrator modify the applicant risk review process to use histories of past noncompliance and document the risk analysis and determination when assessing an applicant’s overall risk level.

We recommend FEMA’s Administrator, in consultation with the Coast Guard, develop and implement a formal plan that includes required actions, projected milestones, and necessary support to track and measure PSGP’s performance in strengthening the security and resiliency of the Nation’s ports against emerging threats.

We recommend the Senior Vice President, Generation Projects and Fleet Services, establish steps to verify implementation estimates include the complete scope of work and are developed using definitive costs.

We recommend the Senior Vice President, Generation Projects and Fleet Services obtain additional support for the five project change requests with insufficient details to determine if the approval amounts should be revised.

We recommend the Senior Vice President, Generation Projects and Fleet Services take steps to reinforce the (1) need for adequate support before approving project change requests and (2) requirement for project change requests to document project estimate revisions.

We recommend that the Senior Vice President, Generation Projects and Fleet Services, in conjunction with the Office of the General Counsel, educate the appropriate individuals on the importance of not sharing confidential contractor information.