The Comptroller of Puerto Rico issues a qualified opinion on the fiscal operations related to the selection, awarding, and administration of the proposals, the professional services, the disbursements, and the personnel of the Manatí-Dorado Local Workforce Development Area. A qualified opinion is issued when the instances of noncompliance, individually or together, are significant but not pervasive.
The Report reveals that an employer laid off five participants under an on-the-job training contract (On the Job Trainning), without informing the reasons to the ALDL Manatí–Dorado, as required by the federal regulation. The then Managers of the Management Center also did not give timely follow-up to investigate the reasons for the layoffs. This situation may result in a sanction by the Federal Government and even the request for the return of the assigned funds. A similar situation had been commented on in Report M-14-56 of 2014.
The six-finding audit notes that the president of the Board of Mayors appointed two persons without the required experience for the position of executive director of the ALDL Manatí-Dorado, one in 2014 and another in 2016. In addition, without the required academic preparation and experience, a person was appointed for the direction of the Management Center, one in 2013 and another in 2016. The examination of other appointments revealed that four officials and employees did not meet the required academic preparation and licenses. This situation has the effect that the actions and decisions taken by them could be challenged to the detriment of the ALDL Manatí-Dorado.
Our auditors identified that, contrary to the regulation, the participants of two training proposals had already been selected or were already employees of the benefited corporation, before presenting the proposals to the ALDL Manatí-Dorado and receiving services from the management centers. In addition, one of the providers offered trainings in facilities that were not supervised prior to the formalization of the contract.
As a result of our audit, the management managers of the ALDL Manatí-Dorado delivered, with up to two years of delay, 99% of the original files of the participants for the final validation in the Management Information System Division. The files must be delivered after completing the first quarter of post-exit follow-up. In addition, the Report comments that $56,075 recommended in Audit Report M-14-56 of 2014 had not been recovered.
The Report covers the period from July 1, 2012, to December 31, 2016
See Audit Report M-18-31.
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