Open Recommendations

Provide documentation to support the $811,325 in code enforcement costs (activities 591, 619, and 645), including meeting code enforcement and salary and benefit requirements,4 or repay the program from non-Federal funds.

Develop and implement a targeted code enforcement strategy that specifies deteriorating or deteriorated areas where code enforcement would be expected to arrest decline. The strategy should include a description of public or private improvements, rehabilitation, or services that would help facilitate code enforcement and also include performance metrics to track progress.

Develop and implement policies and procedures to ensure that code enforcement salaries and benefits are charged and documented in accordance with program requirements.

Provide documentation to support $285,496 in graffiti abatement expenditures or repay the program from non-Federal funds (appendix D).

Develop and implement procedures and controls to ensure that graffiti abatement expenditures, including salaries and benefits, are accurately charged to CDBG grants and properly supported.

Rec. A.4: The DoD OIG recommended that the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Operations) update the Army accounting systems once the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller), Office of the Deputy Chief Financial Officer issues the DoD standard general ledger transactions and guidance for recording foreign currency exchange rate gains and losses, as required by DoD Regulation 7000.14-R, "DoD Financial Management Regulation," volume 6a, chapter 7.

Disallow and recover $1,663,952 in Federal costs awarded to Madison;

Rec. 7.a: The DoD OIG recommended that the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Environment, Safety, and Occupation Health update DoD Instruction 6055.17 to require DoD Components to complete risk assessments at all locations worldwide to determine whether locations require an emergency management program and report the results of the assessments to the responsible combatant command. The update should also include instructions for determining which DoD Components are responsible for completing the risk assessment and determining whether a location requires an emergency management program.

Rec. 7.c: The DoD OIG recommended that the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Environment, Safety, and Occupation Health develop an assessment process to ensure that DoD Components are effectively and consistently applying and integrating the DoD Emergency Management Program.

Develop a method for using the Do Not Pay portal during the underwriting process to identify delinquent child support and delinquent Federal debt to prevent future FHA loans to ineligible borrowers to put $1.9 billion to better use. Status

Revise the single-family handbook to comply with regulations that prevent loans to borrowers with delinquent child support subject to Federal offset.

Enforce the indemnification agreement in the attached settlement agreement to prevent an estimated $95,769 loss to HUD. This represents an amount due HUD from MetLife for indemnifying and holding HUD harmless for any and all losses HUD incurs or has incurred in connection with FHA loan number 137-4740973.

We recommended that CMS establish mechanisms to better monitor the appropriateness of outpatient physical therapy claims.

We recommend FTA recovers $76,572 from the Authority, if applicable.

Implement written procedures to include the confirmation of match funds as part of its annual monitoring reviews of each subgrantee.

Develop and implement a written plan for its subgrantees to provide and submit supporting documentation for match funds at the end of each grant term.

Identify retroactive payroll for remaining grants (CA1162L9D011504, CA1024L9D011501, CA0694L9D011508, and CA0693L9D011508) and provide adequate documentation to support the cost or repay HUD from non-Federal funds.

Develop and implement additional procedures and controls to ensure that payroll costs charged to the grant reconcile to actual hours worked on the grants.