The County did not administer its CDBG program in accordance with applicable HUD requirements.  It did not comply with HUD requirements in meeting national objectives and performance goals and failed to recapture CDBG funds for canceled activities that did not meet a national objective.  As a result, it had no assurance that more than $4.6 million in expended CDBG funds achieved the intended national objective or met program requirements.  In addition, the County also did not accurately report CDBG financial and program information to HUD in accordance with federal requirements.  It failed to report CDBG program income for four activities, inaccurately reported program income for 2007, and reported inaccurate status and accomplishments of CDBG activities to HUD.  As a result, there is a lack of assurance that the County reported accurate CDBG financial and program information to HUD.

OIG recommended that the Director of the Miami Office of Community Planning and Development require the County to (1) provide documentation to support that CDBG program requirements were followed and national objectives and performance goals were met for eight activities or reimburse its program $4 million from nonfederal funds, and (2) recapture $649,143 expended for eight activities that had been canceled.  In addition, the Director should require the County to (1) ensure that CDBG program income is properly reported for four activities, and (2) implement and enforce written policies and procedures to ensure effective performance and compliance with HUD regulations for meeting CDBG national objectives and performance goals and reporting program information and income to HUD.

 

 

 

If you are an "artsy-fartsy" type, or if you will serve "champaign and caviar" (or throw similar high end shindigs that the "wannabe aristocrats" can't afford--or are too cheap--to throw for themselves) and give lip service to the "grand plan" of an "Olde Tyme" playground for the illuminati, they are more than happy to "encourage your doing so" by funnelling big bucks your way that they happen to find "tucked away in some of our other funds"!!!  After all, once the taxpayers send it off, it doens't really belong to them any longer and only the elite really know the best uses for it.

 

They are doing us all a huge "favor" by steering OUR money into the pockets where it does the most good.  We just don't have the "smarts" to understand how smart they are!!

 

We should leave all of this up to them, and stay out of their way.  We are fortunate that they "ALLOW" us to attend a meeting occasionallly, but ONLY if we "RSVP" first!!!  (If the rest of us weren't all just part of the great unwashed, and if we had some "couth", we would understand that!)