Open Recommendations

Conduct a feasibility study of capturing cost savings resulting from the Regional Transfer Hub initiative and, based on the results, implement tracking of costs related to the initiative.

Enforce corrective actions for contracted transportation with late departing transportation.

Establish quantifiable key performance indicators (in coordination with Vice President Processing Operations), including acceptable impacts to service and a trailer utilization target, specific to the Regional Transfer Hub initiative.

Monitor performance of the Regional Transfer Hubs against established goals.

Require Snohomish County to develop and implement written policies and procedures to ensure performance measures are calculated correctly and that source documents to support reported performance measures are retained.

Remedy $11,322 in unsupported questioned costs associated with the following issues:
a. $3,361 in unsupported client flex fund costs.

Remedy $11,322 in unsupported questioned costs associated with the following issues:
b. $7,961 in unsupported other non-personnel costs.

Work with Snohomish County to review historical subrecipient reimbursement requests to identify similar unallowable and unsupported costs and to remedy any questioned costs that are uncovered as a result of the review.

Require Snohomish County develop and implement written policies and procedures to accurately prepare Federal Financial Reports.

Take appropriate action to ensure that the applicable Snohomish County officials responsible for executing the award adhere to the award requirements, to include compliance with the grant award conditions.

Confirm Snohomish County has complied with the three tested award conditions related to grant training, SAM.gov reporting, and pre-publication review of grant-funded materials.

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.

Rec. 1.a: The DoD OIG recommended that the Commanding General, Marine Corps Logistics Command, direct the Commander, Blount Island Command, to update and implement quality assurance procedures to validate the contractors maintenance of prepositioned equipment aboard the USNS Dahl and all other maritime prepositioned ships in the U.S. Indo Pacific Command area of responsibility that are covered by the contract, including the requirement for the contractors to provide Blount Island Command officials the records supporting the maintenance results in the shipboard semi-annual start up reports; verification of the accuracy and completeness of the records supporting the maintenance results in the…

Rec. 1.b: The DoD OIG recommended that the Commanding General, Marine Corps Logistics Command analyze and document the impact to the battery life of the 3,175 batteries, valued at approximately $1 million, due to not recharging the batteries when they reach the threshold of 12.65 volts.