REPORT DIGEST

 

DEPARTMENT ON

AGING

 

COMPLIANCE EXAMINATION

 

For the Two Years Ended:

June 30, 2004

 

 

Summary of Findings:

Total this audit                         12

Total last audit                           2

Repeated from last audit            2

 

Release Date:

March 31, 2005 

 

 

State of Illinois

Office of the Auditor General

WILLIAM G. HOLLAND

AUDITOR GENERAL

 

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SYNOPSIS

 

 

¨      The Department made payments for efficiency initiative billings from improper line item appropriations.  Efficiency initiative payments totaled $184,216 in fiscal year 2004.

¨      The Department had not established adequate comprehensive security-related policies and procedures for its information systems, nor had it formally assigned a Security Administrator.

¨      The Department did not file certain accounting reports with the Office of the State Comptroller on a timely basis.

¨      The Department did not implement a senior benefit advocacy program statewide through area agencies.

¨      The Department did not implement the provisions of the Community Senior Services and Resources Act.

¨      The Department did not establish specialized Alzheimer’s Day Care Resource Centers and develop training modules for the Centers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

        {Expenditures and Activity Measures are summarized on the reverse page.}

 

 


DEPARTMENT ON AGING

COMPLIANCE EXAMINATION

For The Two Years Ended June 30, 2004

 

EXPENDITURE STATISTICS

FY 2004

FY 2003

FY 2002

!  Total Expenditures (All Funds)......................

$314,301,410

$304,434,583

$297,869,884

          OPERATIONS TOTAL................................

                % of Total Expenditures..........................

                Personal Services....................................

                % of Operations Expenditures..............

                Average No. of Employees..................

                Average Salary Per Employee.............

$14,436,246

4.59%

$4,319,852

29.92%

108

$39,999

 

$14,953,086

4.91%

$4,827,994

32.29%

116

$41,621

$14,725,610

4.94%

$4,812,005

32.68%

125

$38,496

                Other Payroll Costs (FICA, Retirement)....

                % of Operations Expenditures.............

$1,095,896

7.59%

$1,268,585

8.48%

$1,275,233

8.66%

                Contractual Services................................

                % of Operations Expenditures.............

$308,098

2.13%

$334,678

2.24%

$348,927

2.37%

                All Other Items.......................................

                % of Operations Expenditures.............

$8,712,400

60.36%

$8,521,829

56.99%

 

$8,289,445

56.29%

         UNAPPROPRIATED EXPENDITURES &

         REFUNDS........................................................

                % Of Total Expenditures.............................

 

 

$854,402

.27%

 

$1,213,312

.40%

 

$314,379

.11%

          GRANTS TOTAL.............................................

                % of Total Expenditures.........................

$299,010,762

95.14%

$288,268,185

94.69%

$282,829,895

94.95%

!  Cost of Property and Equipment...................

$1,115,660

$1,108,536

$1,095,344

 

COMMUNITY CARE PROGRAM (Not Examined)

FY 2004

FY 2003

FY 2002

!  CCP Average Monthly Caseload (clients)............

39,321

38,950

39,354

!  Prospective Nursing Home Cases Prescreened....

78,206

73,448

69,660

!  Clients Over 75 Living Alone..............................

60%

61%

61%

!  Average Cost Per Client Per Month.........................

$482

$456

$445

 

The Community Care Program (CCP) provides in-home homemaker and senior companion services, adult day care and case management services to persons aged 60 years and older.  Services are designed to prevent inappropriate or premature institutionalization.

 

AGENCY DIRECTOR

During Audit Period:  Mr. Charles D. Johnson (effective 3-1-03); Ms. Margo E. Schreiber (through 2-28-03)

Currently:  Mr. Charles D. Johnson

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Department did not receive guidance or documentation with efficiency initiative billings from CMS

 

 

 

 

 

Auditors question whether the appropriate appropriations were used to pay the anticipated savings

 

 

 


Payments were made from line items that had available monies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Department paid a total of $184,216 for the efficiency initiative

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comprehensive information systems policies and procedures had not been developed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Accounting reports were submitted to the Office of the State Comptroller late - in one instance 70 days late

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Senior benefits advocacy program was not implemented

 

 

 

 

 

 


Officials state the program is unfunded

 

 

 

 


Estimated cost $1.92 million

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Community Senior Services and Resource Act was not implemented

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No rules, regulations, guidelines or directives have been promulgated

 

 

 

 


Department has not determined the amount of funding to implement the State law

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Corrective action being taken by the Department

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Alzheimer’s Day Care Resource Centers were not established

 

 


Training module not developed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Department officials stated funding to open the centers was not provided

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS

 

PAYMENTS WERE MADE FOR EFFICIENCY INITIATIVE BILLINGS FROM IMPROPER LINE APPROPRIATIONS

 

      The Department on Aging (Department) made payments for efficiency initiative billings from improper line item appropriations.

 

      Public Act 93-0025, in part, outlines a program for efficiency initiatives to reorganize, restructure and reengineer the business processes of the State.  The State Finance Act details that the amount designated as savings from efficiency initiatives implemented by the Department of Central Management Services (CMS) shall be paid into the Efficiency Initiatives Revolving Fund.  “State agencies shall pay these amounts…from the line item appropriations where the cost savings are anticipated to occur.”

 

      The Department did not receive guidance or documentation with the billings from CMS detailing from which line item appropriations savings were anticipated to occur.  According to Department staff, they received no documentation or information from CMS detailing the nature and/or type of savings that CMS anticipated.  The only guidance received was the amount of payments that should be taken from General Revenue Funds ($181,751) versus Other Funds ($2,465) for the September 2003 billings.

 

      Based on our review, we question whether the appropriate appropriations, as required by the State Finance Act, were used to pay for the anticipated savings.  For example, the Vehicle Fleet Management Initiative billing was not paid from the Department’s Operation of Auto Equipment appropriation. 

 

      We found that the Department made payments for these billings not from line item appropriations where the cost savings were anticipated to have occurred but from a line item that simply had available monies to make payments from.  The Department used: