The Wahiawa senior center at the center of a federal probe into the way the city manages its grants is still violating the rules, but is working to fix the problems.

That’s in a new letter sent Thursday from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to Mayor Peter Carlisle.

From Civil Beat‘s story, just published:

Federal officials are giving the city until the end of June 2012 to bring ORI into compliance with Community Development Block Grants requirements, or the city will have to repay a portion of the $7.9 million in federal funds that it gave to ORI over the course of a decade.

HUD is also giving the city until the end of January to report how much ORI charges for use of its facilities. The city was required to provide this information in October 2011, but missed the deadline, HUD says. The federal agency wants to know ORI’s fee structures to determine whether the low-income clients that ORI’s facilities were built to serve are being precluded from using it.

Read the rest of the article here: Feds Say Senior Center Still Violating Grant Rules