Notes to SEFA
Basis of presentation: The accompanying schedule of expenditures of federal awards (the SEFA) includes the federal grant award activity of the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority (CapMetro) under programs of the federal government for the year ended September 30, 2024. The information in this SEFA is presented 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 SEFA presents only a selected portion of the operations of CapMetro, it is not intended to and does not present the financial position, changes in net position or cash flows of CapMetro. Basis of accounting: Expenditures reported on the SEFA are reported on the accrual basis of accounting. Such expenditures are recognized following the cost principles contained in the Uniform Guidance, wherein certain types of expenditures are not allowable or are limited as to reimbursement. The categorization of expenditures by program included in the SEFA is based on the Federal Assistance Listing number. Federal expenditures are reported in CapMetro’s basic financial statements as follows: a) grant expenditures that meet capitalization criteria are recorded as capital assets on the Statements of Net Position; b) all other grant expenditures are reported in the Statements of Revenues, Expenses, and Changes in Net Position. Costs are included in the SEFA to the extent they are aligned to a federal grant in the current period and included in the federal financial reports, which is the source for the data presented in the SEFA. Pre-award Authority: The majority of the Department of Transportation grants awarded to CapMetro contain pre-award authority approved by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA). FTA’s policy on pre-award authority states that costs may remain eligible for reimbursement or count towards the local match, regardless of the date incurred, provided that the funds were expended in accordance with all federal requirements and would have been allowable if incurred after the date of award, and the grantee is otherwise eligible to receive the funding. Pre-award authority allows CapMetro to incur project costs prior to grant approval and retain the eligibility of those costs for subsequent periods. As such, CapMetro may align expenditures that were originally incurred in prior fiscal years and included in prior year financial statements and may report them as current year expenditures in the SEFA. This also includes circumstances in which an existing grant is amended during the fiscal year, permitting the use of pre-award authority for previously incurred eligible expenditures. In such cases, CapMetro may realign prior period costs to the amended grant consistent with applicable federal guidance and pre-award provisions.
In accordance with the Uniform Guidance, the Authority did not apply or use the 10% de minimis indirect cost rate, as defined by Section 200.414 of the Uniform Guidance for the year ended September 30, 2024.
Subsequent to the issuance of the Authority's original SEFA for the year ended September 30, 2024, CapMetro identified errors in the presentation of the schedule. The SEFA excluded expenditures for federal programs incurred during fiscal year 2024 that were later internally determined to be allowable. The effects of the restatement on federal expenditures reported in the accompanying schedule are summarized as follows: See the Notes to the SEFA for chart/table. The total fiscal year 2024 expenditures of federal awards increased by $7,110,697, from $64,659,829 to $71,770,526. The restatement resulted in one additional major program, the Community Project Funding Congressionally Directed Spending (ALN 20.534), being tested for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2024 in accordance with the requirements of the Uniform Guidance.