AMARILLO -- The state agency in charge of oversight over Panhandle Community Services says PCS is back on track to provide services for area folks.
A representative of the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs addressed the Panhandle Community Services Board Of Directors Thursday morning.
Last year PCS was under scrutiny for financial troubles. It was reported employees had fraudulently backdated records among other things. It was determined the organization would have to repay the state agency more than a million dollars.
For the past nine months the agency has been working with PCS to straighten out the accounting issues and to account for the money the agency said was missing. That has been completed and at the meeting board members were given word they'd reached a milestone.
Michael DeYoung, Director of the Community Affairs Division of the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs says, "We came to the conclusion that the improvements being made over the last nine months have significantly increased the fiscal controls here at Panhandle Community Services and gives us the ability to remove them from cost reimbursement."
That means PCS won't have to prove every expenditure to the state before they get reimbursement, which is an indication their financial accountability has improved.
