“There were no findings associated with this report that were identified for formal resolution action by the Department of Health and Human Services,” Cogley said, in his letter to the NMPASI board of directors.
He said the audit performed by Scott Magliari & Company met federal requirements.
Rayphand said he was expecting the positive result because NMPASI has always been transparent.
“Having a clean audit with multiple funding sources in annual federal funding is the direct result of staff and board members holding each other accountable to the highest standards of integrity and transparency in the course of carrying out their fiduciary duties,” he said.
The clean audit means more access to federal funding assistance.
Rayphand said one of the key components to successfully managing federal programs is implementing safeguards that provide multiple tiers of internal control and simultaneously allow for efficient, timely flow of funds in the direction of their intended purpose.”
He said their audits have always been “clean.”
In some government agencies, internal controls often become too bureaucratic and their efficiency is questioned, he said.
At NMPASI, he said, there’s no atmosphere of fear and everybody knows what’s going on in the organization.
“Everybody has given a chance to look. And we are encouraging people to speak up. If we see something wrong we speak up it doesn’t matter if you are telling the board,” he added.
“We are very accessible to one another and everybody is encouraged to voice their opinion,” Jimmy G. Sablan, NMPASI program manager said.
But because other agencies are not as accessible, NMPASI sometimes finds it hard to get access in completing its goals, project specialist Gregory Borja said
He said they eventually get what they requested from other agencies.
Borja said part of their role is to look after other agencies to make sure they are not discriminating people with disabilities.
