The county Board of Supervisors Tuesday voted 4-0 in favor of auditing a firm hired to manage a temporary lodging program for those displaced by the catastrophic floods in late January.
In a board letter, Supervisor Monica Montgomery Steppe requested an audit of Arbor E&T, doing business as Equus Workforce Solutions. The audit, which will be presented to the board within 120 days, would cover:
- a detailed analysis of Equus’ actual expenditures versus contracted amounts
- the number of households provided with temporary lodging, including how long they stayed
- an explanation of where each resident went after temporary lodging ended, or why they had to leave
- the types of case management services and how many households received them
- a detailed analysis of Equus’ data security regarding residents’ personal information
- the number and types of complaints made by the households how Equus addressed and tried to resolve complaints
In a statement released …