Reports

The objective of this limited desk review is to evaluate the State of Michigan documentation supporting the uses of its Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF) proceeds for aggregate payments to individuals (API) as reported in GrantSolutions, and to assess the risk of unallowable use of funds. The scope of the limited desk review will include all obligation and expenditure data for API for the period March 1, 2020 through December 31, 2022, as reported in cycles 1 through 11 in the GrantSolutions portal.

The objective of this limited desk review is to evaluate the State of Wisconsin's documentation supporting the use of Coronavirus Relief Fund proceeds for aggregate payments to individuals, as reported in GrantSolutions, and to assess the risk of unallowable use of funds. The scope of our review will include obligation and expenditure data reported in the GrantSolutions portal.

The objective of this limited desk review is to evaluate the State of Oregon’s documentation supporting the uses of its CRF proceeds for aggregate payments to individuals as reported in the GrantSolutions portal, and to assess the risk of unallowable use of funds. The scope of our review will include all obligation and expenditure data as reported in the GrantSolutions portal.

We provided unmodified audit opinions on University of Wisconsin (UW) System’s FY 2021-22 financial statements, including its aggregate discretely presented component units. We also completed a limited-scope review of how UW institutions administered supplemental federal funds from three sources. We found that UW institutions used $239,200 from the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund for costs that were unallowable by criteria that the federal government established. In addition, we recommend UW System Administration improve its oversight of a new computer application.

We provided unmodified audit opinions on the State of Wisconsin’s FY 2021-22 financial statements. These financial statements are included in the State’s Annual Comprehensive Financial Report. We reported seven significant deficiencies in internal control over financial reporting, and we made 24 recommendations to state agencies. We also reviewed certain aspects of the federal funding the State received for the public health emergency, and we included in our report certain other matters of interest related to the State’s activities in FY 2021-22.

As requested by the Joint Legislative Audit Committee, we have completed a limited-scope review of how the Department of Administration (DOA) used supplemental federal funds provided in response to the public health emergency. DOA paid $2.2 billion to other state agencies and spent $1.5 billion on its own programs. As of June 30, 2022, $1.8 billion in discretionary funds were remaining. In December 2022, DOA indicated it had plans for using most of these funds.