Office Of Justice Programs Technical Assistance And Training Program

Audit Report No. 04-40
September 2004
Office of the Inspector General


Appendix 3

Technical Assistance and Training Grants
Summary of Audit Findings - BJA


Grantee/Grant NumberFindingsQuestioned
Costs
American Prosecutors'
Research Institute
2000-PP-CX-K001
N/AN/A
Search Group, Inc.
1999-MU-MU-0005

  • Unsupported disbursements
  • Imputed interest as a result of advances drawn down in excess of the funds necessary for immediate disbursement
  • Did not receive prior approval for budget transfers exceeding 10 percent of the grant award
  • Did not accurately report total spending on the FSRs

$25,00033

4,602
$ 29,602


N/A


N/A

National Council of Juvenile &
Family Court Judges
98-MU-VX-K016
  • Grantee did not submit all of its progress reports timely
N/A
National American Indian
Court Judges Association
2000-IC-VX-0026

  • Unsupported other direct costs
  • Unallowable other direct costs
  • Unallowable personnel salaries
  • Unallowable fringe benefit costs

  • Requests for draw downs were not in accordance with the OJP Financial Guide
  • Grantee did not submit all its Financial Status Reports and Progress Reports timely

$ 3,439

1,608

15,812

11,062
$ 31,921

N/A


N/A

Fund for the City of New York
98-DC-VX-K007

  • Three of the eighteen Financial Status Reports were untimely
  • Three of the nine Progress Reports were untimely
  • Grantee incorrectly budgeted certain costs related to compensated employee leave
  • Grantee did not ensure that its personnel and fringe benefit budgets complied with applicable laws, regulations, and guidelines

N/A


N/A


N/A

Doe Fund, Inc.
2001-DD-BX-0055

  • Two of the seven Financial Status Reports were untimely
  • Three of the four Progress Reports were untimely
  • Internal controls over the authorization and approval of grant expenditures were inadequate
  • Grantee did not provide support for 9 of the 53 sampled expenditures charged to the agreement

N/A


N/A


N/A


$ 24,832

Grantee's name withheld due
to ongoing investigation
  • Numerous findings. The entire grant is being questioned pending the outcome of an OIG investigation


$ 3,162,580

Strategic Information
Technology Center
(University of Arkansas)
1999-LD-VX-0001
  • Grantee did not maintain complete and accurate inventory records for the property purchased with grant funds


N/A

School Violence Resource
Center (University of
Arkansas)
2000-DD-VX-0026

  • One of the six Progress Reports due since the inception of the grant was submitted late
  • Early in the grant the grantee erroneously reported indirect costs on a cumulative basis

N/A



N/A

Inter-Tribal Integrated Justice
Pilot Project
(University of Arkansas)
2001-LD-BX-K005

  • Grantee did not maintain complete and accurate inventory records for the property purchased with grant funds
  • Two of the three Progress Reports due since the inception of the grant were submitted late

N/A



N/A

TOTAL - BJA$ 3,248,935



Footnotes

  1. Questioned costs are expenditures that do not comply with legal, regulatory, or contractual requirements, or are not supported by adequate documentation at the time of the audit, or are unnecessary or unreasonable. Questioned costs may be remedied by offset, waiver, recovery of funds, or the provision of supporting documentation.