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B-130515 1 (1972-05-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabkhi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE U ATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 2054 /( i U0 RELEASED ,,,oo.°. B-130515 Dear Mr. de la Garza: This is the first of two reports in response to your re- quest of December 2, 1971, and ilater agreements reached with you. This report deals with ourLexamination of selected fi- nancial transactions of the Cameron County Community Projects, Inc. (Agency),--Brownsville, Texas;, for the 1-year period A-il 1, 1968, through March 31, 1969. During this period the Agency was granted $793,000 and $520,300 by the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) and the Department of Labor, re- spectively. Our test of the records revealed that, during the 1-year period, the review and approval procedures for financial trans- actions were inadequate. We examined all expenditures during May 1968, totaling about $32,000, for programs funded by OBO. In addition, we examined all available documents for travel expenditures paid from OEO and Labor funds for the 1-year period. About $25,100, or 81 percent, of the $31,000 in the May 1968 expenditures for items other than travel was supported and recorded in the records. We found that the remaining $5,900 of such expenditures were questionable for the follow- ing reasons. --Receiving reports did not contain evidence of receipt of goods or services. --Time and attendance records were not complete and/or were not approved. --Pay adjustments were not noted to show authority for and computation of the adjustments. --Expenditures were not supported by any documentation. We examined 367 OEO travel vouchers totaling about $13,200 and 132 Labor travel vouchers totaling about $6,000. Financial or procedural deficiencies were identified with about $4,900, or about 26 percent, of these expenditures, as follows:

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