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CITY OF SANTAANA, CALIFORNIA <br />SCHEDULE OF FINDINGS AND QUESTIONED COSTS <br />(CONTINUED) <br />FOR THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2021 <br />2021-001 (Continued) <br />Recommendation: We recommend the City adjust budgeted expenditure levels of nonwork <br />experience WIOA Youth Activities expenditures whenever conditions exist where they do not expect <br />to expend up to budgeted work experience amounts. <br />Views of responsible officials and planned corrective actions: <br />Due to the varying COVID-19 pandemic restrictions and limitations, the program was not able to meet <br />the 20% minimum funding for paid and unpaid work experiences. Worksites were either closed or not <br />accepting remote work for youth. This has continued to be a challenge for the program year 2021-22. <br />In order to prevent future findings, program staff are restructuring subrecipient agreements to include <br />increasing the percentage of expenditure for work experience to be greater than 20% and to <br />encourage meeting enrollment goals in the beginning of Q2 so that the youth can begin their work <br />experience earlier in the contract year. These changes in the subrecipient agreements will also <br />include corrective action plans for subrecipients that do not meet minimum requirements set forth by <br />the City. Program staff will monitor these metrics once they are in place in order to ensure compliance <br />with programmatic requirements. <br />16 <br />