Audit: education grant poorly tracked
Neither the Department of Public Instruction nor the nonprofit properly tracked the spending of nearly $100,000 in state funding.
Posted — Updated"The Executive Director of Real G.I.R.L.S., Inc. (RGI) could not provide adequate supporting documentation to demonstrate that grant funds were properly used. Instead, she provided an assortment of invoices, register receipts, and other documents that could not be matched to any of RGI’s reimbursement requests. Additionally, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (Department) did not require supporting documentation for the reimbursement requests prior to the processing of payments," according to the report.
In one example cited by the auditor's office, the executive director could not properly account for how her salary was paid:
The auditor's office recommended that Real Girls Inc be suspended from receiving further state funding.
In an official response, Superintendent of Public Instruction June Atkinson wrote that the nonprofit has been "permanently suspended" from receiving future funding and that the state is trying to recover money for which the nonprofit doesn't have proper documentation.
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