Audit shows state agencies received more than $1.6B of North Carolina s direct CARES Act funding by Nyamekye Daniel, The Center Square | March 31, 2021 07:00 PM Print this article
North Carolina spent more than $1.6 billion from its first round of federal coronavirus relief on supporting state agencies, a state audit released Tuesday shows.
The North Carolina Office of State Budget and Management disbursed the funding to state agencies from the $3.6 billion the state received in direct aid from last March s federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, the report showed.
The General Assembly passed the 2020 COVID-19 Recovery Act in May, allocating the federal funding to help states respond to the pandemic. The Office of the State Auditor reviewed how the money was accounted for, allocated, and disbursed through Dec. 31, 2020.
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In accordance with Section 12 of Chapter 11 of the Massachusetts General Laws, the Office of the State Auditor has conducted a performance audit of certain activities of the Chelsea Soldiers’ Home (CHE) for the period July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2019. For our audit of nursing overtime, we narrowed our scope to include only instances of premium overtime.
We conducted this performance audit in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain sufficient, appropriate evidence to provide a reasonable basis for our findings and conclusions based on our audit objectives. We believe that the evidence obtained provides a reasonable basis for our findings and conclusions based on our audit objectives.
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MARSHALL The COVID-19 pandemic left a lot of questions for local governments – including questions about how to make financial plans for 2021. Financial data for local governments show that across Minnesota, cities and counties have been planning to keep their budgets as stable as possible and control spending, the Minnesota Office of the State Auditor said last week.
It’s a pattern that holds up for Lyon County and the city of Marshall, local officials said. The pandemic and its effects on businesses and taxpayers were some of the uncertainties local governments faced this year.
“I think when we adopted the budget for 2021, we definitely had that in mind,” said Lyon County Administrator Loren Stomberg. The farm economy wasn’t looking great at the beginning of the year, and Lyon County commissioners were also clear about not wanting large levy increases, Stomberg said.
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