City Reimburses HUD Money

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The city of Benton Harbor has to reimburse some Community Development Block Grant money to the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. At Monday’s meeting, they approved a reimbursement of just under $61,000 from 2013. City Manager Darwin Watson said HUD oversight determined there were issues with the CDBG program that year.

“During the most recent monitoring conducted in 2016, HUD identified some findings related to the program,” Watson said.

HUD found some financial vouchers for that year lacked documentation, a lack of adequate budget controls, and a failure to comply with some other requirements. It’s all from 2013, before the current commission or manager controlled the process.