Notes to SEFA
Title: Community Facilities Loans and Grants
Accounting Policies: The accompanying schedule of expenditures of federal awards (SEFA) presents the activity of federal award programs administered by the Town of Hammond, which is described in Note 1 to the Town’s’s accompanying financial statements. Federal awards that are included in the schedule may be received directly from federal agencies, as well as federal awards that are passed through from other government agencies. The information in this schedule is presented in accordance with the requirements of Title 2 U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 200, Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (Uniform Guidance). Therefore, some amounts presented in this schedule may differ from amounts presented in, or used in the preparation of, the financial statements. CFDA numbers and pass-through numbers are provided, when available.
De Minimis Rate Used: N
Rate Explanation: Indirect costs are included in the reported expenditures to the extent they are included in the federal financial reports used as the source for the data provided. The Town of Hammond has elected not to use the 10-percent de minimis indirect cost rate allowed under the Uniform Guidance. Matching costs (the Towns’s share of certain program costs) are not included in the reported federal expenditures.
The Town was awarded a loan not to exceed $900,000 pertaining to its municipal building capital project. This loan is administered by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Housing Service, and Community Facilities Programs. This loan has continuing compliance requirements that the Village must comply with in accordance with the terms and conditions of such loan. Since the loan has continuing compliance requirements, the value of new loans made or received during the fiscal period plus the beginning of the audit period balance of loans from previous years is required to be reported on the SEFA. The Town is required to submit annual financial statement audits by the end of September each year to the Federal Audit Clearinghouse. The Town was not in compliance with such requirement. On October 13, 2023, the series A bond totaling $630,000 and series B bond totaling $270,000 were issued by the USDA, which was used by the Town to repay its outstanding bond anticipation note outstanding during the course of the project. The series A bond bears interest at 3.625% and is payable in semi-annual payments of March 28th and September 28th each year through 2045. The series B bond bears interest at 2.25% and is payable in semi-annual payments of March 28th and September 28th each year through 2045.