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Grants office reports improved controls and warns HUD cuts could halt programs serving thousands
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Commissioner Deborah Lannon told council the Department of Grants and Community Development improved reimbursements and monitoring, reported no HUD findings last year, and cautioned that proposed federal changes to CDBG/HOME/HOPWA would jeopardize services to low‑income residents.
Atlanta — Deborah Lannon, commissioner of the Department of Grants and Community Development (DGCD), told Atlanta City Council the department has reduced reimbursement turnaround times, strengthened monitoring and has no HUD monitoring findings in the past program year, but warned that proposed federal budget actions put critical entitlement funds at risk.
Lannon said DGCD processed more than 900 subrecipient reimbursements last year with an average turnaround of 22 days, a sharp improvement from prior years when reimbursements sometimes took many months. She credited updated compliance and monitoring practices and a merged program/fiscal team that assigns one analyst per contract for contracting and reimbursement duties.
DGCD oversees four HUD entitlement funds —…
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