Jim Orum, Acting Bureau Chief
I. Responsibilities
- Process grants and purchase of care contracts, amendments, and modifications for all community service providers and programs. Examples of these programs include:
- Alcohol and substance abuse treatment, and prevention; Developmental disabilities; programs; Mental illness programs; Rehabilitation, & vocational service programs for the disabled; Child Care; Donated Funds Initiative; Earnfare; Illinois Works; Refugee resettlement; Job Advantage, Work First, Job Placement, Emergency Food and Shelter, & Empowerment Zones; Youth services, Juvenile Justice, domestic violence, Parents Too Soon, WIC, Family Planning, Healthy Families, Early Intervention, delinquency prevention, adolescent health, Americorp, and Teen Reach.
- Process all contracts, amendments, and modifications for all business, operations, data processing, and professional and artistic services.
- Function as primary liaison between DHS and the Office of Comptroller reconciling issues concerning grants, contracts, and other obligation issues.
- Maintain the sub-grantee procedures for the Consolidated Accounting and Reporting System (CARS).
- Maintain the official DHS contract files including all contract approval forms.
- Perform desk reviews of the audit/financial reports submitted by DHS-funded Community Services Providers. Authority for this function resides, and is in accordance with 89 Ill Admin Code 507
- Analyze audit/financial reports for compliance with applicable federal, state and DHS financial reporting requirements and identifying lapsed funds in accord with the Illinois Grant Funds Recovery Act.
- Conduct hearings with community providers in accordance with 89 Ill Admin Code 511 regarding lapse fund recoveries.
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