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The Municipal Audit Committee convened on October 27, 2026 at 1:05 PM. The meeting focused on the presentation of an internal audit of the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program and a preliminary discussion on reforming the sunset review process for boards and commissions. One member of the public provided testimony regarding an advisory board experience.
Hello everybody. Welcome to the Municipal Audit Committee meeting. Today is October 21st. We're not us from 1 to 2 p.m. It is 105. Let's begin with member introductions. Assuming so in Roman. Aaron Bell McGay. Bill Falsey. We are also joined in room by uh second. Stephanie Ryan controller. And we also have Director Rash and DRC Woncalvo from the Health Department. Our first item of new business is a review of the C BG Community Development Grant audit, internal audit, and I believe there is a presentation to progress. Thank you. Kimberly Rash Anchorage Health Department. And with me I have Dorothy Montalba, who's a human services division manager. In anticipation of today's presentation to the audit committee, we created 27 slides in case Member Baldwin Day has any questions for us. That never happened, but we have created a plethora of information and resources. One of the things I want to first off say is that the Anchorage Health Department always puts forth a request to internal audit for various programs. And this was a holdover from the previous year that we brought forward to this year a request to audit this specific grant out of community safety and development. And the reason why I brought it forth was because it had not been audited in some time. Staff have changed over, and the HUD rules have changed continuously. And so understanding that we're not the best set all the time. And so I'm here to go over some of the findings and knowing that this was a learning opportunity for all of us. So today I'm going to summarize the audit results, focus on control management that we're that we have put in place and that we are putting in place to address the findings. My intent isn't to go over every single detail, but at least high level, and then the there is an appendix after slide 17 that goes over each of the actual findings for reference. So introductions. Alright, so CDBG is also called Community Development Block Branch. We are a HUD entitlement community. We receive federal funds from HUD themselves directly to the municipality of Anchorage. CDBG is only a portion of our funding that we get from HUD. The other two buckets of funding we receive is home and ESG. ESG stands for emergency solutions grant, and that grant is run through our EDRC, which is our aging and disability resource center. This is a federal program administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. This creates the opportunity and the responsibility for the local health department to abide by not only the federal program rules and regulations but also the municipality of Anchorage Anchorage Municipal Code. And so really what we are here to do is support the activities that are that can develop a viable community. Dr. Rashid, we have a question from Dr. Rollin. Okay. Yeah, sorry, just a very brief clarifying question on the prior slide. Because I think what you said, I just want to understand what you said, which is the internal audit has not looked at this program of the study for a while, but um can you I mean I know these are very heavily regulated funds, so can you just very briefly describe some of the controls that are in place?