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Accounting Office except on the basis of specific approval
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COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON DC 20548
B-130515 O61 RELEASED
JUL 2 1970
Dear Mr. Gonzalez
In accordance with your request of March 16, 1970, and subsequent
arrangements made with your staff, we have reviewed the administration
by the Economic Opportunities Development Corporation of San Antonio and
Bexar County, Texas--a community action agency funded by the Office of
Economic Opportunity (OEO)--of grant funds provided three neighborhood
service corporations. The corporations, which were established to oper-
ate multipurpose service centers in designated areas within the city of
San Antonio and Bexar County, were provided grant funds in January 1970
for a 3-month period at about $33,300 each.
7 ]P In April 1970, the Economic Opportunities Development Corporation
authorized the establishment of four additional neighborhood service
corporations. The seven corporations were to be funded at a total of
about $532,000 for a 10-month period ending March 31, 1971.
Our examination was directed toward (1) evaluating the controls
over, and the propriety of, the expenditure of grant funds by the first
three neighborhood service corporations established, (2) determining the
extent of coordination with other social service agencies in the area,
and (3) investigating certain matters brought to our attention.
W eaudited the three corporations' expenditures through April 1970,
reviewe appl cable OEO and Economic OppoituniLties Development Corpora-
tion procedures, regulations, correspondence, and other pertinent docu-
ments and records, and interviewed individuals associated with OEO, the
Economic Opportunities Development Corporation, the three neighborhood
service corporations, and certain other persons who we had reason to
believe had information pertaining to the matters under review,
The goals of the multipurpose neighborhood service centers are to
promote and fac!it ateefiEctive involvement of ne hborhood residents
in the solution of neighborhood problems and to implement a system
whereby existing antipoverty programs, public and private, are
--extended to the disadvantaged,
--coordinated with one another;
--responsive and relevant to the range of community, family,
and individual problems, and](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobabkkq0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)