Maintenance Wages
PHAs report their proposed maintenance wage rates on this HUD form.
What is the 4750?
This document helps you determine the main character of construction and the number of wage decision(s) applicable to the project. It is also a record of how DBLS made its wage decision should a developer or contractor appeal.
What is a project summary?
This is a conference where the LSS informs the Local Contracting Agency has been selected for a monitoring review. The LSS also informs the Local Contracting Agency which projects will be audited and what documents will be required.
What is an Entry Conference?
The frequency with which contractors are required to submit their payrolls.
What is weekly?
What are 8-units?
The LSS must send out an Initiation Letter and necessary forms at least X number of days before an Agency's fiscal year starts.
What are 120 days before the Agency's fiscal year starts?
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The LSS must submit the Project Summary, the wage decision, and supporting documentation to the Deputy Director within X number of business days of receiving the project assignment.
What are three days?
This report lists all the Davis-Bacon projects an agency has done during that reporting period.
What is a Semi-Annual Report?
List some of the indicators of potential payroll falsification.
Unusual/irregular hours
Apprentices/Journeymen ratio that isn't 1:1
Workers being classified as laborers when other classifications are indicated.
A project receives both federal and state funding, both of which have their own WD. Which wage decision should the Agency use?
The Agency should incorporate both the wage decisions into the contract. However, the Office of Davis-Bacon Labor Standards only enforces federal labor standards.
The methods an Agency has two methods to obtain information to assist HUD in determining or adopting maintenance wage rates
What are:
a. obtaining wage rates from existing published sources (e.g., Bureau of Labor Statistics, DOL, state or local government entities, schools, hospitals, etc.), or
b. conducting an informal survey of local entities that employ personnel performing the same duties as the Agency’s maintenance staff.
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These are the forms MFH provides the LSS in order to make a wage determination.
What are the:
Form HUD-92013: Application for Multifamily Housing Project
Form HUD-2328: Contractor's and/or Borrower's Cost Breakdown
Form HUD-2328 LI: Contractor's and/or Borrower's Cost Breakdown (Supplement), if available.
Lender's Narrative, if available.
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These are the documents that an LSS request of the Agency is being reviewed.
What are the
These are some of the bonafide fringe benefits that can be included in the CPRs.
What are:
Health insurance
Pension
Life insurance
Paid vacation/sick leave
A subcontractor is an independent contractor, and no taxes were deducted on the CPRs. What form should the contractor submit to the IRS?
What is the 1099?
Contracts for covered maintenance work in excess of $X are subject to the overtime provisions of the CWHSSA.
What are $100,000?
HUD 1344. Chapter 8 Rev2
These are the steps to completing a conformance request
Step 1. The contractor will submit a conformance request in Elations.
Step 2: We sign it and send it to DOL
Step 3: DOL reviews it.
Step 4: We track that conformance request
A worker classification is needed for a project that is not included in the applicable wage decision. The Agency must complete file this request by submitting this form to DOL. And this form must be included in the documentation for the monitoring review.
What are a conformance request and an SF 1444?
True or false? Pre-apprenticeship programs not registered with DOL can be paid less than the journeyman rate.
False, they must be paid the full journeyman rate.
How often should an Agency conduct interviews?
Agencies have discretion regarding how often and which laborers/subs they choose to interview. But as a general rule, they want to get a representative sample of the different classifications and subcontractors throughout the project (beginning, middle, and end), meaning whenever there is a new subcontractor on-site, they want to get some interviews. Additionally, they are encouraged to target interviews whenever they find something suspicious on the CPRs
These are examples of Operations work that require HUD determined or adopted wage rates.
Operations typically consist of maintenance work, which falls under two categories: routine and nonroutine.
HUD regards it as work that involves the regular upkeep and preservation of buildings, grounds, and facilities. Examples of maintenance work include, but are not limited to:
1. groundskeeping,
2. janitorial work,
3. patching and/or finishing interior and exterior walls and other surfaces, and
4. the inspection, repair, and general upkeep of electrical, plumbing, and heating and air conditioning systems.
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T/F when a LSS determines that multiple wage decisions are required, they must receive concurrence from HQ
What is true?
What are
1. Recent monitoring
2. Program complexity
3. Local capacity
4. Program office rating
5. Recent problems
HUD 1344. Chapter 12 section 5
T/F Tools that are used on site are legitimate deductions on certified payrolls.
False, all deductions must be to the benefit of the worker, not the employer.
Do Emergency Solutions Grants trigger Davis-Bacon
No, they do not.
24 CFR chapter 5, pg 244