Section 2630.122  Sanctions

Under the JTPA, the Governor of the State of Illinois is held responsible for all funds under the Act.  The Governor is further mandated to hold grantees and subgrantees, including grant recipients, responsible for JTPA funds received from the State of Illinois.  To equip the Governor with authority to discharge this duty, the following sanctions must be reserved:

a)         The Department of Commerce and Community Affairs shall be able to take prompt and appropriate corrective actions for misexpenditures by any grantee and subgrantee.  This may include, but need not be limited to prompt, appropriate, and aggressive debt collection action to recover any funds misspent by grantees or subgrantees, as required in Section 164 (a)(3) of the Act.

b)         The Department shall be able to require written descriptions and assessments of all actions taken by grantees and subgrantees to collect misspent funds.

c)         The Department shall have the authority to reduce allocations to a service delivery area if:

1)         the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor offsets a debt against funds allotted to the State; and

2)         the debt resulted from a misexpenditure by the grant recipient, or its subgrantees.

(Source:  Amended at 11 Ill. Reg. 11682, effective June 29, 1987)