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06E ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action Agenda ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Item No. V:15 Meeting Date: MAY 6, 1985 SUBJECT: CETA REPAYMENT DEPARTMENT: COUNTY MANAGER PUBLIC HEARING: __Yes X No ATTACHMENT(S): INFORWTICIst CONTACT: MANAGER'S OFFICE, X501 TELEPHONE NUMBER: NO Hillsborough - 732-8181 Chapel Hill - 968-4501 Mebane - 227-2031 PURPOSE: TO consider repaying Fiscal Year 1978-79 di ]lowed Comprehenr sive Employment and.Training Act (CA) costs to the N. C. Department of Natural Resources and Comaunity Development (MD). NEED: In October 1983 NRCD auditors conducted a financial, audit of County CETA contracts covering fiscal years 1978 through 1983. Auditors questioned $1.5 million of expenditures because of insufficient documentation. During calendar year 1984 the finance staff reviewed five years of voluminoug COM records and net with NRCD periodically to reduce a major portion of the questionable costs. In February 1985 NRCD informed the County $7,453 of costs remain disallowed. The specific cost relates to 1978-79 OJT subgrantee contracts in which County initiated contract provisions stipulated a reimbursement rate greater (80% to 100%) than the prescribed federal reimbursement rate (50%). The subgrantees paid CETA participants the correct amount, however, the subgrantees received 30% to 50% more funds than required by federal regulations. Although the finance staff and NRCD have been engaged in numerous conversations since February, the disallowed costs have not been resolved or reduced. IMPACT: All avenues for dal have been exhausted. NRCD has requested repayment of funds.• RECOMMENDATION: Authorize expending $7,453 from Commissioners Contingency Account to repay NRCD for 1978-79 disallowed CETA costs.