Follow-up to OIG’s Audit of the Department of Planning and Development’s Administration of the Neighborhood Opportunity Fund Small Grants Program

Executive Summary

Based on the Department’s responses, OIG concludes that DPD has fully implemented two of the corrective actions related to the audit findings, substantially implemented another, and partially implemented the fourth.

Based on the results of the audit, OIG recommended that DPD improve its procedures to ensure completion of all grantee selection steps and retention of related records. In addition, OIG recommended that DPD define measurable program goals and develop performance measurement procedures that would facilitate the assessment of progress toward those goals. Finally, OIG recommended that DPD ensure that it collects the contractually required quarterly performance reports from the third-party program administrator. In its response to the audit, DPD described corrective actions it would take.