Notes to SEFA
The accompanying schedules of expenditures of federal awards and state financial assistance present the activity of all federal awards and state financial assistance programs of the Toms River Regional Schools. The School District is defined in Note 1 of the basic financial statements. The information in these schedules 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) and New Jersey OMB’s Circular 15-08, Single Audit Policy for Recipients of Federal Grants, State Grants and State Aid. All federal and state awards received directly from federal and state agencies, as well as federal awards and state financial assistance passed through other government agencies is included on the schedule of expenditures of federal awards and state financial assistance.
The basic financial statements present the general fund and special revenue fund on a GAAP basis. Budgetary comparison statements or schedules (RSI) are presented for the general fund and special revenue fund to demonstrate finance-related legal compliance in which certain revenue is permitted by law or grant agreement to be recognized in the audit year, whereas for GAAP reporting, revenue is not recognized until the subsequent year or when expenditures have been made. The general fund is presented in the accompanying schedules on the modified accrual basis with the exception of the revenue recognition of the one or more deferred June state aid payments in the current budget year, which is mandated pursuant to N.J.S.A. 18A:22-44.2. For GAAP purposes payments are not recognized until the subsequent budget year due to the state deferral and recording of the one or more June state aid payments in the subsequent year. The special revenue fund is presented in the accompanying schedules on the grant accounting budgetary basis, which recognizes encumbrances as expenditures and also recognizes the related revenues, whereas the GAAP basis does not. The special revenue fund also recognizes the one or more state aid June payments in the current budget year, consistent with N.J.S.A. 18A:22-4.2.The net adjustment to reconcile from the budgetary basis to the GAAP basis is $80,876 for the general fund and $63,661 for the special revenue fund. See Exhibit C-3 Note A of the basic financial statements for a reconciliation of the budgetary basis to the modified accrual basis of accounting for the general and special revenue funds. The net adjustment for the special revenue fund includes $126,656 of local awards which are not included on the Schedules of Expenditures of Federal Awards and State Financial Assistance. Awards and financial assistance expenditures reported in the School District's basic financial statements on a GAAP basis are presented as follows:
Amounts reported in the accompanying schedules agree with the amounts reported in the related federal and state financial reports.
The Middletown Township Public School District had no loan balances outstanding at June 30, 2025.