Notes to SEFA
NOTE 1 SCOPE OF AUDIT PURSUANT TO OMB UNIFORM GRANT GUIDANCE All federal grant operations of Dulce Independent School District No. 21 (the “District”) are included in the scope of the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) Uniform Grant Guidance audit (the “Single Audit”). The Single Audit was performed in accordance with the provisions of the OMB Circular Compliance Supplement (Revised November 2025 the “Compliance Supplement”). Compliance testing of all requirements are described in the Compliance Supplement, was performed for the grants programs noted below. These programs represent all federal award programs and other grants with fiscal year 2025 cash and non-cash expenditures to ensure coverage of at least 20% (LOW risk auditee) of federally granted funds. Actual coverage is approximately 67% of total cash and non-cash federal award program expenditures. Total cash expenditures were in the amount of $3,836,532 and all non-cash expenditures amounted to $38,843. The District had one federal program considered to be a High-Risk Type A program for the year ended June 30, 2025. The U.S. Department of Education is the District’s oversight agency for single audit.
NOTE 2 SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES Basis of presentation The accompanying Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards (the “Schedule”) includes the federal grant activity of the District under programs of the federal government for the year ended June 30, 2025. The information in this schedule is presented in accordance with the requirements of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Uniform Grant 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 and changes in net position of the District. All federal programs considered active during the year ended June 30, 2025, are reflected on the Schedule. An active federal program is defined as a federal program for which there were receipts or disbursements of funds or accrued (deferred) grant revenue adjustments during the fiscal year or a federal program considered as not completed or closed out at the beginning of the fiscal year. The Schedule is prepared using the accrual basis of accounting. Grant revenues are recorded for financial reporting purposes when the District has met the qualifications for the respective grant. Accrued and deferred reimbursements Various reimbursement procedures are used for Federal awards received by the District. Consequently, timing differences between expenditures and program reimbursements can exist at the beginning and end of the year. Accrued balances at year end represent an excess of reimbursable expenditures over receipts to date. Deferred balance at year-end represent an excess of cash receipts over reimbursable expenditure to date. Generally, accrued or
NOTE 3 INDIRECT COSTS The District did not elect to use the 15% de minimis indirect cost rate during the year ended June 30, 2025. The District uses 8.00% indirect cost rate as determined by New Mexico Public Education Department.
NOTE 4 RECONCILIATION OF FEDERAL AWARDS TO EXPENDITURE OF FEDERAL AWARD The differences between the federal awards received (Intergovernmental sources – federal) during the year ended June 30, 2025 and the federal awards expended during the year are as follows: BALANCE Federal Sources $ 6 ,319,863 Indirecct costs from federal programs ( 6,346) Unexpended federal sources from current year ( 2,503,375) Prior year federal sources expended 6 5,233 Total Expenditures of Federal Awards $ 3,875,375