How Do I...Minimize funding clawbacks or adverse audit findings? A curated list of Questions & Answers to help cities minimize funding clawbacks or adverse audit findings. Compliance & Reporting, Due Diligence & Fraud Protection, Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act To what extent can a municipality use IIJA funds to hire employees/create departments to record and report federal fund usage and manage fraud, waste, and abuse? Compliance & Reporting, Program Administration, American Rescue Plan Act, CARES Act, CSLFRF, FEMA, HUD, Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act How should a municipality approach mandatory participation in grant administration? Are there good practices to ensure the best engagement outcomes after requiring or incentivizing grant administration in similar funding opportunities? Compliance & Reporting, Due Diligence & Fraud Protection, CSLFRF What are the best ways for municipalities to avoid negative audit findings and the potential return of CSLFRF funds to Treasury? Community Engagement & Local Partnerships, Compliance & Reporting, Federal Funding Streams, CSLFRF Are all grants to businesses coming from SLFRF grants considered gross income and therefore taxable? (This presumably would require cities to send 1099-Gs to businesses that received grants.) Compliance & Reporting, American Rescue Plan Act, CSLFRF Like direct award recipients, are sub-recipients under ARPA (SLFRF) required to obligate their funds, by contract or other means, by the end of 2024? Compliance & Reporting, Due Diligence & Fraud Protection, American Rescue Plan Act, CSLFRF, FEMA, HUD, Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act What is an Integrity Monitor? Are there good practices for demonstrating the cost-savings function of Integrity Monitors? Are there good practices for determining what percentage of a project’s budget should be dedicated to hiring an Integrity Monitor? Compliance & Reporting, Due Diligence & Fraud Protection, American Rescue Plan Act, CSLFRF, FEMA, HUD, Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act What measures should municipalities implement to ensure that vendor invoices comply with federal requirements? Compliance & Reporting, Federal Funding Streams, American Rescue Plan Act, CSLFRF If a project has multiple funding sources, which funding source governs protocol controls? Community Engagement & Local Partnerships, Compliance & Reporting, Infrastructure & Maintenance Investments, American Rescue Plan Act, CARES Act, CSLFRF, FEMA, HUD, Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act What are good practices for engaging community stakeholders when planning to use Capital Projects funding? Compliance & Reporting, CSLFRF Is it permissible to report expenditures incurred by a sub-recipient prior to the award date? If so, how should "term-start date" be defined? Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Next page Next › Last page Last »