LOS ANGELES—Following the release of an audit citing financial-control issues with a joint city-county homeless services agency, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Chair Lindsey Horvath will ask her colleagues Tuesday to consider the creation of a county department to centralize homeless services.
The audit of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority was requested by Horvath and the board in February, and its results were released last week.
The county Auditor-Controller Department report cited several concerns about LAHSA’s management of homeless funding, such as failing to recoup cash advances provided to subcontractors, failing to establish repayment schedules for subcontractors, lack of adequate records for tracking cash advances awarded to other agencies and failure to adequately monitor contracts with recipient agencies and document whether subcontractors who received funds actually met the terms of their contracts….