Why does it often seem like there’s so little progress around homelessness? What can be done to make systems more effective? From the halls of government to the streets, I follow money and policies to examine what’s working, what’s not, and how it’s affecting people in Southern California.
If you're enjoying this article, you'll love our daily morning newsletter, How To LA. Every weekday, you'll get fresh, community-driven stories that catch you up with our independent local news.Orange County officials are demanding the refund of millions in tax dollars that county Supervisor Andrew Do gave to a nonprofit linked to his daughter — saying Viet America Society has failed to show it actually did the work it was paid to do.
“Due to VAS’s failure to substantiate the work performed under the Contract, the County is requiring full reimbursement,” states one of the county’s letters, all of which are dated July 26. “The issue has been they haven’t kept the normal accounting for what they’ve done,” he said at the time. “So they’ve had to basically create the…documentation in the form that an accountant would want to watch and see for an audit.”
In emails to LAist, Rhiannon Do has denied serving as an officer or having any role in the meal funding at issue or the financial side of the organization. But she has not answered requests to explain public records that contradict her claims. Those records include a contract she signed as group’s president, and meeting minutes showing her as an officer and director.was approved unanimously by the state Senate and now working its way through the Assembly.
At a meeting last week, the auditors told the county they were planning to officially find that VAS failed to properly track what it did with county dollars and had “problematic” accounting of how many meals it was providing.That makes it hard to know whether the group actually did what it was paid to do, the county wrote.
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