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Audit: Border-to-border broadband grantees met contract speed goals, but DEED failed to follow state grant-monitoring rules
Summary
The Office of the Legislative Auditor said broadband grant recipients built infrastructure that met contract locations and state speed goals, but DEED failed to follow several Office of Grants Management post-award oversight requirements, including collecting progress reports, conducting required monitoring visits, and completing closeout evaluations.
The Office of the Legislative Auditor reported that grantees in the Border-to-Border Broadband Development Grant Program built infrastructure that met contract locations and state speed goals, but the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development did not follow some required state grant-monitoring procedures.
Mariam Nada, the program evaluation manager for OLA, told the Legislative Audit Commission auditors reviewed broadband grants and found that DEED contracts with a third-party vendor to validate whether infrastructure built by grantees met goals specified in grant contracts. The auditors said, based on that validation, the broadband grantees in the sample built infrastructure to serve contract locations and meet state speed goals.
At the same time, auditors found…
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