Audit 390018

FY End
2025-06-30
Total Expended
$12.16M
Findings
3
Programs
11
Organization: Euclid City School District (OH)
Year: 2025 Accepted: 2026-03-03

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Findings

ID Ref Severity Repeat Requirement
1176193 2025-001 Material Weakness Yes H
1176194 2025-001 Material Weakness Yes H
1176195 2025-001 Material Weakness Yes H

Contacts

Name Title Type
JLUJR2NQ13X4 Patrick Higley Auditee
2167972915 Matthew Goldman Auditor
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Notes to SEFA

The accompanying Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards (the Schedule) includes the federal award activity of Euclid City School District (the District) under programs of the federal government for the year ended June 30, 2025. The information on this Schedule is prepared in accordance with the requirements of Title 2 U.S. Code of Federal Regulations Part 200, Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (Uniform Guidance). Because the Schedule presents only a selected portion of the operations of the District, it is not intended to and does not present the financial position, changes in net position, or cash flows of the District.
Expenditures reported on the Schedule are reported on the cash basis of accounting. Such expenditures are recognized following the cost principles contained in Uniform Guidance wherein certain types of expenditures may or may not be allowable or may be limited as to reimbursement.
The District has elected not to use the 10-percent de minimis indirect cost rate as allowed under the Uniform Guidance.
The District commingles cash receipts from the U.S. Department of Agriculture with similar State grants. When reporting expenditures on this Schedule, the District assumes it expends federal monies first.
The District reports commodities consumed on the Schedule at the fair value. The District allocated donated food commodities to the respective program that benefitted from the use of those donated food commodities.
Federal regulations require schools to obligate certain federal awards by June 30. However, with DEW’s consent, schools can transfer unobligated amounts to the subsequent fiscal year’s program. The District transferred the following amounts from 2025 to 2026 programs: See the Notes to the SEFA for table.

Finding Details

7 CFR § 210.8(a) states in part, "The school food authority shall establish internal controls which ensure the accuracy of meal counts prior to the submission of the monthly Claim for Reimbursement. At a minimum, these internal controls shall include: an on-site review of the meal counting and claiming system employed by each school within the jurisdiction of the school food authority; comparisons of daily free, reduced price and paid meal counts against data which will assist in the identification of meal counts in excess of the number of free, reduced price and paid meals served each day to children eligible for such meals; and a system for following up on those meal counts which suggest the likelihood of meal counting problems." 7 CFR § 220.11(b) states in part, Claims for Reimbursement shall include data in sufficient detail to justify the reimbursement claimed and to enable the State Agency to provide the Reports of School Program Operations required under § 220.13(b)(2). In Ohio, the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce (DEW) requires school districts to use the Claims Reporting and Reimbursement System (CRRS) to report meal data for reimbursement. Due to insufficient controls over reporting, related to breakfast and lunch meal counts, one of the three (33%) months tested was inaccurate. This led to inaccuracies in meal counts reported in the CRRS system, as shown below: This weakness resulted in a loss of accountability over meal count reporting and could lead to a reduction or forfeiture of future funding for this program. The District should develop control policies and procedures to ensure the number of meals served and reported to DEW agree to the respective daily meal count forms and the meals served / tabulated. The procedures should include an independent review of the meal counts manually entered into the point-of-sale system, based upon the daily meal count forms, and the meal counts manually entered into CRRS by an employee not associated with the computer entry. These review procedures should be acknowledged by initials / signatures. If there are errors or discrepancies between meals served / tabulated and the amounts reported to DEW, the District should maintain supporting documentation to demonstrate the meals reported to DEW were accurate and complete.