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, Fund Planning & Allocation, American Rescue Plan Act If a city decides to use Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (“CSLFRF”) for payments to individual residents impacted by the pandemic, is there any documentation that confirms that the funds are non-countable against existing benefits? Compliance & Reporting, American Rescue Plan Act Can a municipality alter its use of ARP funds after it has designated a project in quarterly reporting to Treasury? Would this be allowable if ARP funds expended on the originally planned project were reimbursed with city funds? Compliance & Reporting, American Rescue Plan Act Are subrecipients of ARP funds required to submit an official attestation form prior to award? Compliance & Reporting, American Rescue Plan Act If money is given to a nonprofit as beneficiary to compensate for lost income and the nonprofit spends that money on capital projects, must a municipality report on the expenditures as capital projects? Compliance & Reporting, American Rescue Plan Act When designating a disproportionately impacted class, how can the class be structured and what data is needed to justify this designation? Community Engagement & Local Partnerships, Compliance & Reporting, American Rescue Plan Act Can a municipality use CSLFRF funds to improve a park falling within a Qualified Census Tract ("QCT")? How will the municipality need to document and justify such expenditures of CSLFRF? Compliance & Reporting, American Rescue Plan Act Is housing subject to capital justification elements in the Final Rule? If so, where a city used ARP funding for gap financing for affordable housing, would the capital justification apply to only the city investment or to the total project? Compliance & Reporting, Fund Planning & Allocation, American Rescue Plan Act Is a municipality required to go through a competitive procurement process in order to transfer CSLFRF funds to its economic development agency (a 501(c)(3)) for ARP-eligible programming? Compliance & Reporting, Fund Planning & Allocation, American Rescue Plan Act Can a municipality use ARP funds to pay for ARP-eligible expenses in the general budget, creating a general fund surplus that can be used to fund any activity, without regard to ARP eligibility? Compliance & Reporting, American Rescue Plan Act What documentation will cities need to provide to show that city expenses are in response to the “public health emergency with respect to COVID-19 or its negative consequences”? Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Next page Next › Last page Last »