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The Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, in coordination with Embassy Rabat, the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, and the Under Secretary for Management, should close Consulate General Casablanca
The Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, in coordination with Embassy Rabat and the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, should identify and procure suitable property adjacent to the new embassy compound for the construction of a consular annex.
Embassy Rabat should establish an interagency working group on commercial advocacy and export promotion.
Embassy Rabat, in coordination with the Office of Management Policy, Rightsizing and Innovation, should use the rightsizing exercise and report to prepare a plan for adjusting International Cooperative Administrative Support Services positions, with the goal of consolidating information technology and human resources services with those of the U.S. Agency for International Development when the embassy relocates to the new embassy compound.
Embassy Rabat should establish first- and second-tour professional development and mentoring programs for Rabat and for Casablanca.
Embassy Rabat, in coordination with the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs and the Bureau of Human Resources, should request the transfer of the economic officer, position number 02-980001, from Consulate General Casablanca to Embassy Rabat upon the departure of the incumbent.
Embassy Rabat should redefine the responsibilities of the embassy’s economic section as they relate to commercial work to align them with the Department of State economic statecraft guidelines.
Embassy Rabat should require public affairs staff members on the board of the Moroccan-American Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange to submit to the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs an evaluation of the performance of the commission’s executive director.
Embassy Rabat should require all locally employed staff members in the public affairs section who act as grants officer representatives to complete appropriate online grants training courses offered by the Foreign Service Institute by the deadline.
Embassy Rabat should eliminate two locally employed staff positions in the information unit of the public affairs section.
Embassy Rabat, in coordination with the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, should eliminate the eligible family member program manager assistant position number (88- 94037002) in the public affairs section.
Embassy Rabat should require the consular section to implement a formal training program, including cross-training for locally employed staff in the consular section.
Embassy Rabat should reissue the worldwide visa referral policy and enforce the Department of State requirement that the visa referral mechanism is the only appropriate method for mission staff to advocate on behalf of visa applicants or to request appointments for visa applicants.
Embassy Rabat should provide the deputy chief of mission a monthly report on all Class A and Class B visa referrals and on all communications outside the referral system.
Embassy Rabat should charge appropriate fees for diplomatic visas and correct misinformation posted on its Web site.
Embassy Rabat should require supervisory officers to complete reviews of visa issuances and refusals.
Embassy Rabat should complete and submit the results of validation studies on student visas and visa referral cases to the Bureau of Consular Affairs, Office of Fraud Prevention Programs.
Embassy Rabat should require the assistant regional security officer-investigations in Casablanca to spend 80 percent of his work hours on visa and passport fraud.
Embassy Rabat should establish missionwide motor vehicle and housing policies consistent with relevant Foreign Affairs Manual guidelines.
Embassy Rabat should require Consulate General Casablanca to collect fees for school transport.
Embassy Rabat should reduce the deputy chief of mission’s official residence expense staff to authorized levels.
Embassy Rabat should review official residence expense staff levels and provide the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs with a response on reducing the official residence expense staff levels at the chief of mission residence.
Embassy Rabat should develop a hiring and employment policy for official residence expense staff and require that all employment contracts for official residence expense staff members conform to Department of State regulations, local law, and prevailing practice.
Consulate General Casablanca should complete and submit its post hardship differential survey report.
Embassy Rabat should establish an International Cooperative Administrative Support Services budget committee.
Embassy Rabat, in coordination with the Bureau of the Comptroller and Global Financial Services, should rebid the current banking services contract.
Embassy Rabat should request a Bureau of Human Resources review of its withholding of Moroccan taxes and take appropriate steps consistent with Moroccan law.
Embassy Rabat should convene a survey board to determine the status of missing property and take corrective actions as necessary.
Embassy Rabat should establish a preventive maintenance plan for U.S. Government-owned and long-term leased properties in Rabat and Casablanca.
The Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, in coordination with Embassy Rabat, should provide funds and project management oversight to repair the structural damage to the pavilion building at the Tangier American Legation.
The Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, in coordination with Embassy Rabat, should replace the extra fiber optic cable that runs to each workstation in the new embassy compound with category 6 cables with Ethernet connectors.
Embassy Rabat, in coordination with the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, should either sell the temporary duty quarters currently maintained by Embassy Rabat’s employee association or include it in a property swap for a consular annex site.
Embassy Rabat should restrict community liaison office involvement and funding to activities that benefit the entire embassy community, such as newcomers’ orientation and morale and recreation events and programs.
Embassy Rabat should suspend the honorary chairmanship of the Ambassador’s spouse for the American International Women’s Association until it obtains the required authorizations from the Office of the Legal Adviser.
Embassy Rabat should cease all fundraising activities by the Ambassador’s spouse until it has obtained the required authorization from the Office of the Legal Adviser and the deputy assistant secretary of the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs.
Embassy Rabat should cease all fundraising activities for private organizations by mission employees, spouses, and family members until the Ambassador determines that the activities are in the foreign policy interest of the United States and that there is very little or no appearance of preference or use of public office for private gain.
Embassy Rabat should cease the sale to unauthorized personnel of duty-free packaged goods imported by the Embassy Cooperative Association.
The Office of Medical Services should conduct a staffing review of Embassy Rabat’s health unit to determine the appropriate number and mix of health unit professionals required to provide adequate medical care to the mission.
Embassy Rabat should conduct a risk assessment of all management functions in preparation for the 2013 chief of mission management controls statement of assurance.
Embassy Rabat should issue a cash advance to the two backup consular cashiers.
Embassy Rabat should issue a cash drawer to the second backup consular cashier.
Embassy Rabat should require the Class B cashier in Casablanca to return a copy of the general receipt, Optional Form 158, to the accountable consular officer within 24 hours of receipt of funds from the consular cashier.