| Block Grants for Community Mental Health Services |
Mental Health did not require counties, as part of their suspension and debarment certifications to the State, to ensure lower-tier entities with which they entered into covered transactions were not suspended or debarred. Mental Health also did not require counties to pass the requirements down to each person with whom they entered into a covered transaction. |
2005-06 |
| Fully corrected. Mental Health has included the federal requirements in the draft state fiscal year 2009-10 Planning Estimate and Renewal Application. |
124 |
| Block Grants for Community Mental Health Services |
Mental Health does not facilitate peer reviews. |
2006-07 |
| Partially corrected. Mental Health has consulted with the California Mental Health Planning Council (MHPC) on this issue. As a result, the MHPC has agreed to conduct the independent peer reviews as required by federal law. The MHPC is in the process of planning the independent peer reviews. |
151 |
| Block Grants for Community Mental Health Services |
Mental Health does not use the correct Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) title in its correspondence to the counties. Further, Mental Health lacks a procedure for following up with counties that have delinquent U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-133 audits. |
2006-07 |
| Fully corrected. Mental Health has revised the title in the draft state fiscal year 2009-10 Planning Estimate and Renewal Application Instructions to reference the CFDA title Block Grants for Community Mental Health Services (known as the Community Mental Health Block Grant). Mental Health has implemented procedures to follow-up with counties that have not submitted their OMB Circular A-133 audits, and take appropriate actions. |
136 |
| Block Grants for Community Mental Health Services |
Mental Health’s accounting procedures do not specifically identify the segregation of duties related to the preparation and approval of the annual Standard Form SF-269A. |
2006-07 |
| Fully corrected. Mental Health has implemented procedures to ensure segregation of duties for approval and preparation of the SF-269A. |
127 |
