Auditor: centralize grant tracking after missing items and ARPA testing

Mar 11, 2026

Auditors tested Lake County's large federal awards (including about $1.7M of ARPA funds), found grants missing from the federal-awards schedule and recommended centralizing grant management so finance can track and report timely.

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Dimitri Cherniak said the audit team reviewed the county's schedule of expenditures of federal awards and found missing grants and reporting weaknesses that complicated compliance testing. "We tested a lot of your, coronavirus state local fiscal recovery funds that you spent in 2024, which was 1,700,000," Cherniak said, identifying the ARPA funds as a major item tested.

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