Corrective Action Plans

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Department of Human Services respectfully submits the following corrective action plan for the year ended June 30, 2024. Audit period: July 1, 2023 - June 30, 2024 The findings from the schedule of findings and questioned costs are discussed below. The findings are numbered consistently with the numbers assigned in the schedule. FINDINGS—FEDERAL AWARD PROGRAMS AUDITS Department of Human Services Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program – Assistance Listing No. 93.568 Recommendation: The Department should review and enhance its procedures and internal controls to ensure that it charges expenditures to the program that are incurred within an award’s allowable period of performance. Explanation of disagreement with audit finding: No disagreement. Action taken in response to finding: The Department has made changes in the Office of Budget and Finance Leadership team and continues to do so at every level. The Department will review and enhance its procedures and internal controls to ensure that it charges expenditures to the program that are incurred within an award’s allowable period of performance. Currently, expenditures are recorded in the State’s Financial Management Information System (FMIS) with program cost accounting codes used to identify the funding source(s) for each activity. The system-generated report summarizes the information and includes the effective date of the activity. In turn, this same report is used to run the cost allocation to properly charge the exact costs to the funding source. Currently information is manually inputted into multiple spreadsheets to prepare the federal reports resulting in the possibility for errors. This significantly impedes the accuracy of the data being reported to federal grants and the provision of supporting documentation. As such, the Department will partner with external consultants to develop a better and more seamless recording structure for grant expenditures to the general ledger. This structure will require quarterly review by the Deputy Cost Allocation Revenue Management Director (CARM), the Cost Allocation Revenue Management Director, and the Deputy Chief Financial Officer. The Department will create a database and document repository to track the submission and reconciliation for federal grant reporting. The document repository will include the FMIS generated report and the cost allocation results table. Upon submission to the federal grant

U.S. Department of Education (USDE) Maryland State Department of Education respectfully submits the following corrective action plan for the year ended June 30, 2024. Audit period: July 1, 2023-June 30, 2024 The findings from the schedule of findings and questioned costs are discussed below. Finding is numbered consistently with the numbers assigned in the schedule. FINDINGS—FEDERAL AWARD PROGRAMS AUDITS Maryland State Department of Education 2024-023 Special Education Cluster– Assistance Listing No. 84.027, 84.173 Recommendation: The Department should review and enhance its procedures and internal controls to ensure that it charges expenditures to the program that are incurred within an award’s allowable period of performance. Explanation of disagreement with audit finding: There is no disagreement with the audit finding. Action taken in response to finding: MSDE will review and enhance its Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and internal controls to ensure that it charges expenditures (including accounts payable and payroll) to Federal programs that are incurred within an award’s allowable period of performance. Name(s) of the contact person(s) responsible for corrective action: Neeta Gandhi Executive Director Office of Program Fiscal Operations and Local Strategic Finance Jenna Meinl Director Office of Procurement and Contract Management Planned completion date for corrective action plan: June 30, 2025 If the USDE has questions regarding this plan, please call Patricia Ramallosa at 410- 767-0103. Page 2 Approval of Response to the CLA Findings and Recommendations: Document Version Approval Date Approved by Signature 1.0 Mar 29, 2025 Neeta Gandhi, Executive Director-Office of Program Fiscal Operations & Local Strategic Finance Mar 29, 2025 Jenna Meinl, Director-Office of Procurement and Contract Management Mar 29, 2025 Donna Gunning, Assistant Superintendent of Financial Policy, Planning, Operations & Strategy Mar 29, 2025 Shawn Rushing, Assistant Superintendent of Administration Mar 29, 2025 Krishnanda Tallur, Deputy Superintendent of Finance and Operations

Department of Labor (DOL)Financial Statement Preparationinancial Statement Preparation. Unemployment Insurance – Assistance Listing No. 17.225 Recommendation: We recommend the Department implement procedures and internal controls to ensure that it complies with program requirements, that it maintains documentation, and that documentation is readily available for audit. Explanation of disagreement with audit finding: There is no disagreement with the audit finding. Recommendation: We recommend the Fund establish procedures to ensure that financial reporting is performed in a timely manner and provide accurate and relevant information. Explanation of disagreement with audit finding: There is no disagreement with the audit finding. Action taken in response to finding: The team that was assembled to work through the audit has also been enlisted to redesign the process and build new tools to create UI Trust Fund financial statements every month. While this is still in development, we plan to have it functioning accurately by May of 2025. Name(s) of the contact person(s) responsible for corrective action: John Fahnbutu. Planned completion date for corrective action plan: 5/30/2025 Recommendation: We recommend the Fund establish procedures to ensure that financial reporting is performed in a timely manner and provide accurate and relevant information. Explanation of disagreement with audit finding: There is no disagreement with the audit finding. Action taken in response to finding: The team that was assembled to work through the audit has also been enlisted to redesign the process and build new tools to create UI Trust Fund financial statements every month. While this is still in development, we plan to have it functioning accurately by May of 2025. Name(s) of the contact person(s) responsible for corrective action: John Fahnbutu. Planned completion date for corrective action plan: 5/30/2025 Maryland Department of Labor- Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund (the Fund) respectfully submits the following corrective action plan for the year ended June 30, 2024. Audit period: July 1, 2023-June 30, 2024 The findings from the schedule of findings and questioned costs are discussed below. The findings are numbered consistently with the numbers assigned in the schedule. FINDINGS—FINANCIAL STATEMENT AUDIT MATERIAL WEAKNESS

1. The Maryland Military Department respectfully submits the following corrective action plan for the year ended June 30, 2024.Projects – Assistance Listing No. 12.401 (1) Recommendation: The Department should review and enhance its procedures and internal controls to ensure that it charges expenditures to the program that are incurred within an award's allowable period of performance. (2) Explanation of disagreement with audit finding: There is no disagreement with the audit finding. (3) Action taken in response to finding: The Department will carefully exam and allocate expenses to the fiscal year in which they are incurred, ensuring proper period assignment when expenses span multiple fiscal years. This will confirm accurate costs charged to the programs. 2. Audit period: July 1, 2023-June 30, 2024 3. The findings from the schedule of findings and questioned costs are discussed below. The finding is numbered consistently with the numbers assigned in the schedule. 4. FINDINGS—FEDERAL AWARD PROGRAMS AUDITS: a. Finding 2024-011: National Guard Military Operations and Maintenance (O&M

Finding 2024-002: Significant Deficiency Activities Allowed or Unallowed and Allowable Cost/Cost Principle (Payroll) Responsible Official’s Response and Corrective Action Plan We concur with the finding related to deficiencies in our time tracking Process. Starting in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025, a time tracking system using Paychex Time & Attendance was implemented. This system is designed to accurately capture, and record employees’ hours worked by project/grant. Comprehensive training sessions have been conducted for all affected employees to ensure they are proficient in using the new time tracking system. Supervisors have received additional training on monitoring and verifying time entries. Planned Implementation Date of Corrective Action Plan October 2025 Person Responsible for Corrective Action Plan Natésha Johnson, Director of Finance and Administration Dr. Felecia Nave, President and Chief Executive Officer

Finding 2024-003: Reporting - Timely Submission of Financial Reports – Noncompliance and Significant Deficiency in Internal Control over Compliance Name of Contact Person: Courtney Hoiby, Interim Finance Director Corrective Action Plan: The Borough has engaged accounting resources and staff with the appropriate time and expertise to expedite the completion of future financial reports. Completion Date: September 30, 2026

Finding: 2024-002 Material Weakness in Internal Control Over Period of Performance – Health Center Program, WIC Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, and Immunization Cooperative Agreements (93.224, 10.557, 93.268) Corrective Action: The District is in the process of developing a comprehensive year-end closing checklist and has already streamlined many of the procedures that caused reconciliation issues. In addition, we will perform spot checks on transactions to ensure that payroll and nonpayroll expenditures are recorded in the proper period. We will also provide additional training to ensure that personnel only record expenditures when confirmation has been received of receipt of goods or services. Proposed Completion Date: February 28, 2026 Name of Contact Person: Tomiko Fisher, Chief Operating Officer

This is the first year that Federal Grant funds in excess of $750,000 have been received and spent by the city of Kenton. For the current year, two people will be in charge of meeting deadlines for filing reports. Compliance with Federal Grant Guidelines will be more closely followed and attempts will be made to make a written policy for Federal Grant Procedures

F A 2O24-OO3 Strengthen Controls over Financial Reporting Compliance Requirement: Reporting lnternal Control lmpact: Material Weakness Compliance lmpact: Material Noncompliance Federal Awarding Agency: U.S. Department of Education Pass-Through Entity: Georgia Department of Education CFDA Numbers and Titles: 84.010 - Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies Federal Award Number: S0104220010 (Year:2023), S010A230010 (Year.2024) Questioned Costs: $0.00 Repeat of Prior Year Finding: FA 2023-004, FA 2022-004, FA 2021-002, FA 2019-002 Description: The School District did not file accurate completion reports for the Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies program. Corrective Action Plans: . CFO will make sure expenditures are correctly recognized on all completion reports . An independent CPA person has been hired and review completion reports before they are submitted Estimated Completion Date: Decembet 31, 2025 Contact Person:Torrence H. Freeman lll. CFO Telephone: 706-665-8577 Email:tfreeman@talbot.kl2 aus

Condition: One Education Stabilization Fund final financial report has not been submitted that is overdue. Corrective Action Planned: Upon review, the District confirmed that the grants identified in this finding have either already had their final financial reports submitted or were operating under approved late liquidation extensions, during which final reporting is not yet required. The District has verified all reporting statuses and updated its internal grant tracking to ensure documentation of late-liquidation approvals is consistently stored with each grant file. No further action is needed beyond maintaining the existing reporting calendar and reconciliation procedures now in place. Anticipated Completion Date: Procedures are already implemented. Contact: Liz Latoria, School Director of Finance and Operations

Condition: Two final financial reports were not filed in a timely manner for Special Education Cluster grants. Corrective Action Planned: The District experienced delays in filing final financial reports due to difficulties reconciling grant revenues in the Town’s accounting system, as certain receipts were not clearly identifiable during the grant closeout process. To address this, the District implemented a monthly reconciliation process with the Town and created an internal grant reporting calendar with secondary review to ensure timely submission. These procedures are now in place and will prevent future delays. Anticipated Completion Date: These procedures are currently in place. The District will complete the final financial reporting process for outstanding grants within 60-90 days, with all remaining reports finalized no later than March 31, 2026. Contact: Liz Latoria, School Director of Finance and Operations

Planned Corrective Action: Planned Action The City will implement a calendar based reminder system using Microsoft Outlook to send annual notifications to designated staff prior to the reporting deadline. Roles and Responsibilities o Budget & Finance Director: Accountable for preparing and filing the report with the Treasury. o Community Development Director: Provides programmatic information necessary for report completion upon request. o Deputy Auditor: Receives annual reminder notifications to ensure oversight. o Auditor’s Office: Will be notified upon submission of the report for independent verification. Implementation Timeline Outlook reminders will be established by April 1 annually to ensure timely notification ahead of the next reporting deadline. Monitoring The Auditor’s Office will verify timely submission annually and maintain documentation of compliance for audit purposes. Anticipated Completion Date: 12/12/2025 Responsible Contact Person: Amanda N. Perkowski, Budget & Finance Director

The Organization concurs with the finding and management will implement procedures to ensure appropriate internal control procedures are in place for period of performance and cutoff procedures related to grant expenditures. Management will implement additional internal controls at the end of the grant and the beginning of the grant to ensure accuracy of the salaries being posted are in the correct period of performance.

Views of Auditee and Corrective Actions: The Division of Special Education is currently reviewing the details of the finding in order to provide an adequate response and corrective action plan.

Condition: We identified several monthly vouchers which were submitted to the grantor later than fifteen days after the month end. In addition, we identified financial close-out rep01i s which were submitted to the grantor later than thirty days after the end of the performance period. Corrective Action Taken or Planned: Management plans to reiterate the financial reporting requirements to ensure that monthly vouchers and financial close out reports are submitted to the grantor timely. Anticipated Date of Completion: December 31, 2025 Name of Contact Person: Karen Reitan, President and Chief Executive Officer Management Response: Management concurs with the finding.

CORRECTIVE ACTION PLAN April 10, 2025 M.C. College Preparatory School of Wisconsin, Inc., respectfully submits the following corrective action plan for the year ending June 30, 2024. Walkowicz, Boczkiewicz & Co., S.C. 1800 East Main Street, Suite 100 Waukesha, WI 53186 AUDIT PERIOD: June 30, 2024 The findings from the June 30, 2024, schedule of findings and questioned costs are discussed below. The findings are numbered consistently with the numbers assigned in the schedule. FINDINGS-FEDERAL AWARD PROGRAMS AUDITS DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION MATERIAL WEAKNESS 2024-001 Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund - COVID-19 – CFDA No. 84.425 Condition: During the audit of submitted claims, it was found that there was a lack of sufficient review procedures to ensure proper verification of costs. Specifically, several instances of duplicated expenditures were identified within the claims. The same costs were submitted more than once for reimbursement, resulting in questioned costs. Criteria: The Organization's internal controls should require that claims be thoroughly reviewed for accuracy and completeness before submission. This includes verifying that costs are not duplicated and ensuring proper documentation supports each expenditure. Additionally, the previously submitted claims included in the period of performance should be monitored to prevent duplication. Cause: The review process did not involve cross-checking with previous claims or documentation to identify and prevent the submission of duplicate costs. Effect: As a result of inadequate claim reviews, the organization has submitted claims containing duplicated costs. These duplicated expenditures have resulted in questioned costs, which may need to be refunded. The failure to detect and prevent such errors could lead to non-compliance with funding requirements. Questioned costs: $505,820 Auditor’s recommendation: It is recommended that the organization implement a more thorough review process for all submitted claims. This should include cross-checking current claims against previous claims to detect and prevent duplicated costs. A system should be implemented to track claims and associated costs more effectively, ensuring that no expenditure is claimed more than once. Action Taken: M.C. College Preparatory School of Wisconsin, Inc.’s Management has completed the transition to a new payroll system with enhanced process controls as of December 2024. This system enables the organization to isolate funding source allocations at the individual employee level, thereby preventing expenses from being attributed to more than one source. Final programming and control reviews are scheduled for completion prior to June 30, 2025. Further, Management has reviewed the questioned costs with the local education authority and has submitted qualified replacement expenses for all amounts initially submitted in error. As a result, no refund is required, and the applicable financial reserve will be released in the upcoming fiscal year. If the Department of Education has questions regarding this plan, please call Alfred Keith IV at 414-264-6000. Sincerely yours, Alfred Keith IV Chief Education Officer

Finding: Material weakness in internal control over period of performance Corrective action: Pacific Forum will incorporate policies into expense management and financial reporting guidelines to ensure all expenditure is completed within the period of performance and reviews by management are properly documented. Completion Date: February 1, 2026 Responsible Individual: Executive Director

Corrective Action Plan: The City of Charleston will implement internal controls and procedures to ensure all required reports are prepared, reviewed, and submitted within the program’s required timeframes, and with the correct amounts. Anticipated Completion Date: Fiscal Year 2025

California Department of Fish and Wildlife • The Accounting Services Branch (ASB) will document the process by updating the respective desk procedures to clearly direct staff to only approve vouchers with dates consistent with the Project ID start and end date as identified on the FI$Cal Crosswalk. • Ensure new staff within ASB are trained on the desk procedures before they begin approving vouchers in FI$Cal. Estimated Implementation Date: March 31, 2026 Contact: Jing Lin, Branch Chief, Accounting Services Branch California Department of Transportation The Division of Research, Innovation and System Information staff have developed the following corrective actions in response to the audit finding: TEC Charging Guidance and Training To ensure research project Contract Managers properly code a Travel Expense Claim (TEC), the following guidance and training actions will be implemented. • The Division’s Contract Manager Handbook and Training documentation will be updated to provide staff with guidance ensuring that TEC charging information aligns with the fiscal year (FY) in which the travel expenses occurred. • DRISI Contract Managers and their first- and second-line supervisors will be trained on the change and will receive the annual reminder. A record of attendance of training will be maintained. • New hires will receive TEC charging practices training within 30 days of their start date. Annual TEC Coding Reminder To ensure TECs are coded accurately to the correct Federal Project Number, an annual email reminder will be sent to DRISI staff beginning in the month of May for coding/charging TECs. • The reminder will instruct staff to code and charge TECs to the fiscal year and federal project number in which the expense was incurred. • A list of tasks and project IDs will be attached to the email to minimize errors and ensure consistency. In addition, the program will send a reminder to the TEC/Accounting Office to: • Charge and post TECs and non-encumbered Operating Expense (OE) charges to the fiscal year in which they were incurred. • This process will help avoid audit findings related to charges being posted to the incorrect fiscal year or federal award number. Estimated Implementation Date: March 31, 2026 Contact: Chief, Division of Research, Innovation and System Information

Finding 2024-001 Federal Agency Name: Department of Health and Human Services Program Name: Block Grants for Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse Federal Financial Assistance Listing Number: 93.959 Finding Summary: The Organization must establish and maintain effective internal controls over federal awards that provides assurance that the organization is managing the federal award in compliance with federal statutes, regulation, and conditions of the federal award. The Organization did not have documented review completed prior to invoice payments being made or reimbursement requests being submitted to ensure all costs incurred were allowed and in the correct period of performance under the program. Responsible Individuals: Carlie Stevens, Wellcome Manor Finance Manager; Karen Klabunde, Wellcome Manor Center Director Corrective Action Plan: On a monthly basis, the Finance Manager will provide the month’s expenditures, receipts, reimbursement requests, and recap spreadsheet to the Center Director. The Center Director will agree all items to the grant and sign the recap spreadsheet to document her review and approval. Anticipated Completion Date: December 31, 2025

Finding 2024-239: The Division does not have documented control procedures in place to ensure compliance with period of performance requirements for the Rehabilitation Services-Vocational Rehabilitation Grants to States. Related to Prior Finding: N/A Agency’s view: Agree 3.1 Corrective Action Plan: Document Control Procedures: Develop and implement formal, written procedures (Grants Management Manual Chapter) for verifying that expenditures are assigned to the correct period of performance in both Aware and Luma. 3.2 Training: Train IDVR team members on policies and procedures tied to Period of Performance. Anticipated Corrective Action Date: 04/01/2026 Responsible for Corrective Action: Eric Bjork, Fiscal Officer

Finding Number: 2024-032 Audit Type: Single Audit Finding Title: Delayed Final Reimbursement Due to Unresolved Agency Requests Related Finding: 2024-023 (Yellow Book) 1. Contact Person Responsible for Corrective Action Name: Shannah Weaver Title: City Clerk Department: Finance Department 2. Planned Corrective Action The City will designate a grants coordinator to monitor agency requests and ensure timely responses. 3. Anticipated Completion Date September 30, 2026 4. Management's Response Management concurs and will improve communication with funding agencies. 5. Status of Prior Year Finding This is a newt finding.

2024-006 – WATERSHED REHABILITATION PROGRAM – LACK OF CONTROLS AND IMPROPER PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE – WRD – ALN 10.916 – MATERIAL WEAKNESS & MATERIAL NONCOMPLIANCE Condition Pembina County Water Resource District applied costs to the Watershed Rehabilitation Program after the period of performance, which shows a lack of internal controls. The total value of the expenses past the period of performance end date was approximately $170,468 which occurred through September 14, 2024, more than a month past the period of performance end date. Corrective Action Plan: We agree we will ensure costs are in the proper period of performance going forward Anticipated Completion Date: FY2025

Auditors Recommendation: CBPSC should ensure that its records are completed and reconciled in a timely manner, so that the single audit can be performed and completed on time, and the reporting package and data collections form can be submitted before the deadline. Corrective Action Plan: Management acknowledges that the reporting package and Data Collection Form for the 2023 audit were not filed by the required September 30, 2024 deadline. Management also acknowledges that this finding will appear for the next audit year, however to correct this and prevent recurrence of this issue the organization has implemented the following actions: Established external filing deadlines. Enhanced monitoring and tracking. Assignment of oversight responsibility. Improved coordination with external auditors. Staff Training. Anticipation Completion Date: These corrective actions were initiated in the 2025 fiscal year and will be fully in place for the 2025 audit cycle, ensuring timely submission by September 30. 2026 Management Statement: Management believes these corrective steps will ensure full compliance with federal reporting requirements going forward and prevent recurrence of late submissions. Responsible Individual: Managing Director, Fred Fogg

Finding 2024-002 Contact Person responsible for corrective action: Kevin Couey The corrective action planned: Strengthen our processes to ensure all grant expenditures are made within the authorized period of performance. The anticipated completion date (or starting date if ongoing): We immediately put new processes into action effective October 1, 2025 and will be validated at next audit in May 2026.