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County auditor flags weaknesses in ARPA workforce grant oversight, issues 10 recommendations
Summary
Washington County Auditor Adams Swanberg presented an audit Dec. 17 finding gaps in policies, contract controls and monitoring for the county's American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) workforce development grants and recommended 10 corrective actions; county management agreed to most recommendations and disputed one about indirect costs.
Washington County Auditor Adams Swanberg on Dec. 17 presented an audit of the county's ARPA workforce development grant that found lapses in grant administration, contract development and monitoring for community partners who received subawards.
The audit, led by senior management auditor Sherry Kirk, concluded the county lacked written grant policies and procedures, awarded and implemented contracts after providers had already begun services, relied on unvalidated partner reporting, and had insufficient financial controls. "What we found was the county did not have grant administration policies and procedures that they needed in order to implement the ARPA grant," Kirk told the Board during the presentation.
The report found contracts were delayed between 123 and 277 days and that eight of nine community partners began work before contracts were executed. The auditors said the county's risk-assessment tool lacked transparent methodology and produced scores that did not reflect program…
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