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B-178942 1 (1974-03-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabkye0001 and id is 1 raw text is: RESTRICTED - ot to bereleased outside the Generaf Act*w r e' ~ pt oni the basis of specific app: -.4- 0 7'C by the Cl rs'~2 ltonLfsg a record al~ Is kept by ezU tr ,L.ton Section, Publications Branich, OAS COMTOLLER GENERAL OF THE UNIT=Q STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 2048 B-178942 LE ASED Pjhe Honorable Lou Frey, Jr. C /hf House of Representatives Dear Mr. Frey: In response to your June 15, 1973, letter we inquired into the activities and expenditures of the Brevard Manage- ment Information System BMIS), a group established by Brevard County, Florida, under an. Emergency Employment Act of 1971 (EEA) (42 U.S.C. 4871) grant from the Department of Labor to ovid sfor unemloyed aerospace workers. As your letter suggested, we talked to the BMIS direc- tor, a TODAY newspaper reporter, a Labor regional manpower representative, the administrative director of the Brevard County Board of Commissioners, and the former BMIS employee who claimed that the project's operations had resulted in willful and gross mismanagement of Federal funds. We also discussed the matter with other Labor, Florida, and Brevard County officials and with the president of Man- . agement Information Systems of Brevard County, Incorporated (MIS, Inc.), a private consulting firm closely associated with BMIS. In addition, we examined records of the project from its inception through October 1973. BACKGROUND EEA's purpose is to provide public service jobs to unemployed and underemployed persons'during high unemploy- ment and to train them for employment not directly supported by EEA. Aerospace workers who have become unemployed or underemployed as a result of technological changes or shifts in Federal spending are a hiring priority group under EEA. The Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services (HRS) proposed to help Brevard County alleviate unemployment by using EEA funds to expand a planning- programing-budgeting system (PPBS) in Florida. HRS uses

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