Full details/story:
http://www.hobokenhorse.com/2014/07/hha-audit-findings-spell-trouble-for.html
Among the more than a dozen and a half serious problems delineated in the HHA Audit Report:
- Five vendors were paid over $26,000 where a bid process is mandatory under law
- None of the five vendors fulfilled a required sealed bid requirement
- Two of the five above vendors were paid over $100,000
- "Questioned costs" totaled over $573,000
- Payments to numerous vendors was out of compliance with prices authorized by the HHA Board of Commissioners
- The HHA accounting department was "unable to print a vendors history report"
- One vendor overpaid without contract authorization exceeded $753,000
- The partial period of emergency is no excuse for the excessive unauthorized payments
- All contracts should be properly reviewed when reaching 70% of approved contract expenditure
- Fiscal controls relating to HHA procurement are not "as required" by law
- No emergency procurement reports were filed with the state as required under law
- The HHA is "not in compliance" with state and federal procurement laws and regulations.
- Detailed required bills submitted for payment to the HHA examined lacked required vendor certifications in all examples examined.
- Internal control over aspects of procurement are "ineffective"
- More than $100,000 in expenditures with the illicit use of a credit or store card
- Section 8 files contained major problems and are "materially incomplete"
- Costs deemed problematic connected to Section 8 can't be fully determined due to the lack of required documentation
- The HHA is "not in compliance" with the Housing Choice Voucher Program and the Low Rent Public Housing Program regulations
