Liberal Forum

During OLA’s audit, which spanned from July 2022 to December 2024, auditors visited different program sites, reviewed finances and spoke to BHA staff members. Within that time period, BHA managed 830 unique grant agreements that received $426 million in state and federal funding. Among the findings:

• BHA paid nearly $1 million to grantees for work performed before BHA completed its grant agreements.
• A majority of the grant recipients surveyed had missing or past-due progress reports.
• One grantee could not provide OLA with detailed invoices or data to support a payment of nearly $700,000 from BHA for a single month of work. The BHA grant manager who approved the payment left the agency a few days after approving the grant. The former BHA grant manager now works for the same grant recipient for whom they approved the nearly $700,000 grant. 
• In a survey, the majority of staff said they did not receive sufficient training to manage grants.
• BHA paid nearly $300,000 to 11 grantees for unsupported costs and reimbursement requests with errors.
• BHA was not able to demonstrate that it had conducted required site visits to monitor how grant funding was disbursed.

Judy Randall, the state’s legislative auditor, noted that her team identified a number of documents BHA either backdated or created after the audit began. Because of this, OLA said they could not fully rely on documentation provided by the department. “It is frankly unacceptable for the agencies we audit to do this type of activity,” Randall said. “In the 27 years I’ve been with OLA, I have never seen this before.”

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/0 ... dhs-grants

the **** took questions...was axed about resigning...he was defiant blaming the fedrul gubment and he's here until the end of his term "for the people because he cares about them"...

 

apparently he doesn't care about the citizens he stole their money from and lost...