Corrective Action Plans

2024-002 - Meal Claim Reimbursement Noncompliance Auditor Description of Condition and Effect. One of three meal claim reimbursement reports selected for testing did not agree to underlying meal count sheets. On the one report that did not agree, the District understated claims for all of its facilities. As a result of this condition, the District submitted inaccurate claims for reimbursement, resulting in a reimbursement less than what the District should have received. Auditor recommendation. We recommend that the District implement a thorough review process of entered data prior to certification of claims data. We also recommend that a secondary review of claims data be done by a District finance department staff to ensure proper claims data. Corrective Action. The District will implement a thorough review process of entered data prior to certification of claims data. The District will also implement a secondary review of claims data that will be done by a District finance department staff to ensure proper claims data. Responsible Person. Michelle Bennin, Chief Financial Officer Anticipated Completion Date. June 30, 2025

Condition: At June 30, 2024, net cash resources in the School Lunch Fund exceeded the allowable limit of cash by $700,631. Corrective Action Plan: The School District is committed and will be diligent in preparing meals with high quality products. Regular cooked meals and expanded menu choices will be prepared which will result in an increase in expenses. There has been unpredictability with the increase of certain goods, and we expect this to continue into the 2024-2025 fiscal year as well. The School District also participates in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) which provides free breakfast and lunch to every student within the School District. Salaries for School Lunch employees have also been increasing year after year due to the increase of minimum wage in New York State as well as a new collective bargaining agreement that went into effect 7/1/2025. The minimum wage is expected to increase to $15.50 per hour. The School District does have a practice of transferring BOCES aid gained from the cost of the BOCES management contract to the School Lunch Fund; the aid will not be transferred in upcoming years. The School District has devised a NYSED approved plan to expend the excess funds in the School Lunch Fund through appropriating a substantial amount of fund balance to be planned for and used for the cafeteria and kitchen capital project. That capital project vote is scheduled for December 2024. If needed, we will examine other avenues to ensure we do not exceed the allowable limit of cash at year end. The School District anticipates resolving this finding by June 30, 2025.

Allegan Public Schools respectfully submits the following corrective action plan for the year ended June 30, 2024. Auditor: Maner Costerisan 2425 E. Grand River Avenue, Suite 1 Lansing, MI 48912 Audit Period Year ended June 30, 2024 District Contact Person: Amy Christman, Director of Finance and Operations Finding 2024-001: Considered a significant deficiency in internal control over compliance. Recommendation: The District should consistently utilize a point-of-sale system to track and claim the number of meals served. Action to be Taken: Management agrees with the finding and had already changed procedures during the school year to better track and claim meals.

This finding is due to the District not having the proper controls in place to prevent, detect, or correct incomplete applications and incorrect eligibility guideline thresholds for the Household Application for Free and Reduced Priced School Meals. This was the first full year for the District’s new Food Service Director, and she was unaware that the income level guidelines for eligibility were not already updated in Meal Magic at the start of the school year. The District is now aware that this is a manual change that needs to be made on an annual basis prior to the start of the next school year. The District is implementing additional procedures to ensure that applications are filled out completely and that the eligibility income thresholds are updated annually before any applications are processed. The persons responsible for the corrective action are Tamie Gillespie, the Food Service Director, and Dina Schmidt, the Business Manager. The anticipated completion date of the corrective action plan is immediate. The plan for monitoring adherence is the Food Service Director will ensure that eligibility income level guidelines are properly input each year and monitor each application to ensure they are complete.

Auditor Description of Condition and Effect. One of three meal claim reimbursement reports selected for testing did not agree to underlying meal count sheets. On the one report that did not agree, the District understated claims for all of its facilities. As a result of this condition, the District submitted inaccurate claims for reimbursement, resulting in a reimbursement less than what the District should have received. Auditor recommendation. We recommend that the District implement a thorough review process of entered data prior to certification of claims data. We also recommend that a secondary review of claims data be done by a District finance department staff to ensure proper claims data. Corrective Action. The District will implement a thorough review process of entered data prior to certification of claims data. The District will also implement a secondary review of claims data that will be done by a District finance department staff to ensure proper claims data. Responsible Person. Gail Enders, Finance Director Anticipated Completion Date. June 30, 2025

Auditor Description of Condition and Effect. Throughout the year journal entries were posted without independent approval. As a result of this condition, the District is exposed to an increased risk that misstatements or misappropriations might occur and not be detected by management in a timely manner. Auditor Recommendation. We recommend that the District's journal entries be independently reviewed, signed and dated, as evidence of this control. Corrective Action. The District will implement a new procedure to ensure each journal entry goes through a review process before being posted. Responsible Person. Gail Enders, Finance Director Anticipated Completion Date. June 30, 2025

October 11, 2024 10.553, 10.555, 10.559 - Child Nutrition Cluster 2024-001 Net Cash Resources Corrective Action Plan: The School District will review cafeteria operations throughout 2024-25 and ensure any excess funds will be used to provide additional support to the cafeteria program. The School District expects to alleviate this finding by June 30, 2025. Contact Information Michael Pavlovich, Director of Operations and Finance Chenango Forks Central School District 1 Gordon Drive Binghamton, New York 13901

Corrective Action Plan: The School District has begun taking action to address this issue, as follows: Equipment Improvement - School Food Service Director, Joe Kilmer, Food Service Manager, Ann Overhiser, and the School Business Administrator have plans to improve and replace cafeteria equipment. The replacement plan will be completed in conjunction with the School District’s upcoming Capital Project. This work was originally expected to be included in a prior project but due to scheduling issues, is now included in the upcoming project which is expected to be completed by August 31, 2026. Retained Balance for Pending Settlements - Wages will increase into 2025 and beyond. The minimum wage in New York State is expected to continue to rise according to legislation. The rate will rise to $15.50 per hour by the end of 2024 and to $16.00 per hour by the end of 2025. Annual increases will be published by the Commissioner of Labor and based on a number of economic factors. Due to the critical labor shortage, the School District recently increased hourly wages for food service helpers and cooks in order to attract additional workers to maintain operations. Enhanced Meals - The Food Service Director and Food Service Manager continue to take steps to improve food options. They include making improvements to center of the plate options and improving local food options as well. In addition, the School District plans to spend a portion of the School Lunch excess cash on cafeteria equipment as a part of its upcoming Capital Project which is expected to be completed by August 31, 2026. Anticipated Correction Date: August 31, 2026 Contact Information: Lisa Kuhnel Shared School Business Administrator Odessa - Montour Central School District 300 College Avenue Odessa, New York 14869

Finding Number: 2024-001. Responsible Person:Daniel Kuk, Food Service Director. Management View: Management agrees with the finding and is in the process of implementing the recommendation. Corrective Action: The District has already changed its meal reimbursement process to use data from Meal Magic to submit the meal claim reports. Anticipated Completion Date: Immediate Implementation.

The District will review the requirements of 2 CFR Section 200.213 and ensure that procurement procedures are being followed and perform a review of the eligibility of potential vendors to ensure they are eligible to participate in Federal assistance programs.

2024-004 FINDING Contact Person – Dave Kerkvliet, Superintendent Corrective Action Plan – The District will begin reviewing and approving reports prior to submission for reimbursement. Completion Date – November 1, 2024

Corrective Action Plan School District management agrees with condition, cause, and recommendation. With this overage, the School District has purchased some new equipment for the cafeteria. Since the School District is CEP, there is no option to change the revenue. The School District will continue upgrading the kitchens with the excess. Expected Correction Date: June 30, 2025 Contact: Kathy Rote, School Business Administrator (607) 565-2841 15 Frederick St. Waverly, NY 14892

The Food Service Director will coordinate the on-site monitoring reviews and its completion to Michigan Department of Education standards, and make sure the required forms are completed before deadlines. Contact person responsible for corrective action: Darlene, Food Service Director Anticipated Completion Date: 02/01/2025

Corrective Action Plan: The District recognizes that due to increased reimbursement during the past few years, the District has an excess of cash on hand over the permitted levels. Over the course of the 2023-24 school year, the district reviewed the program’s needs to develop a strategy to utilize these funds by the food service program to coincide with the capital project approved by the voters in December of 2022. To date, the District has purchased and installed multiple equipment items by the Cafeteria Fund totaling over $189,000. Along with these purchases the district has ordered and is in the process of receiving and installing an additional $125,000 of equipment including new serving line stations. Estimated Completion Date: June 30, 2025 Contact Information Jennifer Dattoria, School Business Executive Susquehanna Valley Central School District 1040 Conklin Road Conklin, New York 13748

2024-003 Child Nutrition Cluster – Assistance Listing No. 10.CNC Recommendation: CLA recommends the District designate an individual to review student lunch statuses. Having an appropriate reviewer over student status is intended to prevent, detect, and correct a potential error in the food service system. Explanation of disagreement with audit finding: There is no disagreement with the audit finding. Action planned/taken in response to finding: Management will designate an individual to review student lunch statuses. Name of the contact person responsible for corrective action: Kathy Stankewicz, Business Manager Planned completion date for corrective action plan: June 30, 2025

Condition: The School District did not complete an on-site monitoring review for one building operating a school lunch program during the year ended June 30, 2024. Corrective Steps Taken: At this time, there have been some corrective steps taken to limit this from happening again which includes the Food Service Director better familiarizing herself with MDE’s requirements for on-site reviews. Corrective Steps to be Taken: The Food Service Director will coordinate the on-site monitoring reviews and its completion to Michigan Department of Education requirements. Monitoring: The plan for monitoring adherence is for the Superintendent to check in with he Food Service Director prior to the February 1st deadline to ensure all required on-site reviews were performed. Name of Responsible Person for Further Information: Tami Eisenga, Food Service Director and Scott Akom, Superintendent. Questioned Costs Related to this Finding: None.

Condition: The School District does not currently have a control in place whereby a review of the meal counts entered into the Michigan Nutrition Data (MiND) system takes place, which could result in an incorrect reporting of the number of free and reduced priced meals, which could result in the School District being reimbursed an incorrect amount by the Michigan Department of Education. Planned Corrective Action: The Business Office has implemented a formalized internal control procedure for the Food Service Department to adhere, alongside performing a thorough review of the monthly claims reimbursement submission. The formalized internal control procedure will accompany the supporting documentation submitted to the Business Office monthly (Attachment A). The procedure involves a review of inputted meal counts, prior to the claim submission. The Food Service Department Administrator responsible for meal claim input will provide corroboration of input accuracy, as documented by signoff from a secondary reviewer. In addition, the Business Office has prepared a Meal Claim Check Tool spreadsheet to utilize, on a monthly basis, as another layer of validation. The Meal Claim Check Tool spreadsheet allows the Business Office to input meal count figures from the Food Service POS system report and compare against the figures from the claims submission report. Any discrepancy identified would be immediately addressed with the Food Service Department and would require an amended claim submission. Contact person responsible for corrective action: Danielle Jacobs, Director of Business Services Anticipated Completion Date: 08/01/2024

2023-003 SCDA Special Tests Significant Deficiency and Non-Material Noncompliance Corrective Action: We've hired competent staff that understand how to reconcile inventory to the general ledger. Person Responsible: Stephano Blake Email: S8lake@harvesthope.org Phone: 803-636-6635

The Division will ensure the documentation related to inventory counts are maintained. September 2026 Al Agpoon, Golden State Division Controller

2022-005 Contact Person Jackie Cordie, Business Manager Corrective Action Plan The District plans to implement the auditor's recommendation. Planned Completion Date for CAP Fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026

VIDE acknowledges the audit finding regarding the Child Nutrition Cluster Period of Performance and concurs with the recommendation. We recognize that while the cost was incurred during the valid period, the liquidation payment occurred 18 days past the allowable deadline. To prevent recurrence, VIDE will enforce strict protocols for grant closeout and liquidation. To achieve this, VIDE will establish an internal hard stop deadline for invoice submission, requiring that all invoices for expiring grants be submitted to the Fiscal Office no later than 45 days prior to the federal liquidation deadline to provide a necessary buffer to resolve vendor disputes and process payments before the federal cutoff. Additionally, the State Director of Special Nutrition Programs will implement a scheduled notification system to issue closeout alerts to relevant program staff and fiscal support personnel at 90, 60, and 30 days prior to the liquidation deadline, which will trigger the immediate review of open encumbrances and the expediting of pending invoices to ensure the internal hard stop deadline is met. Furthermore, for any valid expenditures remaining unpaid within 30 days of the liquidation deadline, the Fiscal Office will generate a priority payment list and transmit it to the Department of Finance with a high-priority flag to ensure these specific vouchers are processed before the grant period closes. Finally, the Federal Grants Director and the Deputy Commissioner of Fiscal and Administrative Services will review the Grant Expiration Report monthly to identify grants approaching their liquidation deadline and ensure the internal cut-off dates are being adhered to.

Audit Finding Reference: 2023-002 Improve Controls and Documentation Over Allowability of Costs (Significant Deficiency) Planned Corrective Action: We try our best to have proper paperwork in order prior to processing invoices. In the time of COVID, we had some issues with staff working off site which could of lead to this finding, I strongly feel that we are improving on this finding as we progress in stressing internal controls. Management is striving to have this finding removed prior to the next review due to the protocols they have implemented. Name of Contact Person and Completion Date Stephen T. Spencer, City Comptroller December 31, 2025

Audit Finding Reference: 2023-001 Improve Controls and Documentation Over Payroll Process (Material Weakness) Planned Corrective Action: The School Payroll Department is working to supply all applicable back up for staff being funded by Federal Funds. This has been an issue and we have been stressing that this is a finding and more diligence needs to occur in order to remove this finding. Management is striving to have this finding removed prior to the next review due to the protocols they have implemented. Name of Contact Person and Completion Date Kevin McHugh, School Business Administrator December 31, 2025

Condition: The School District did not complete on-site monitoring reviews for any buildings operating school lunch and breakfast programs within the School District during the year ended June 30, 2023. Planned Corrective Action: Southfield Public Schools contracts its food service with Southwest Food Service. To address the noncompliance, the Food Service Director (Southwest Food Service), and Food Service Purchasing (Southfield Public Schools) will coordinate the on-site monitoring reviews and its completion to Michigan Department of Education standards, and make sure the required forms are completed before deadlines. Contact person responsible for corrective action: Marc Ingram, Chief Financial Officer Anticipated Completion Date: 02/01/2024

FA 2024-001 Improve Controls over Equipment Compliance Requirement: Equipment and Real Property Management Internal Control Impact: Significant Deficiency Compliance Impact: Nonmaterial Noncompliance Federal Awarding Agency: U.S. Department of Agriculture Pass-Through Entity: Georgia Department of Education Assistance Listing Number and Title: 10.553 - School Breakfast Program 10.555 - National School Lunch Program Federal Award Number: 235GA32N1199 Federal Awarding Agency: U.S. Department of Education Pass-Through Entity: Georgia Department of Education Assistance Listing Number and Title: COVID-19 - 84.425D - Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund COVID-19 - 84.425U - American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund COVID-19 - 84.425W - American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund - Homeless Children and Youth Federal Award Number: S425D200012 (Year: 2020), S425D210012 (Year: 2021) S425U210012 (Year: 2021), S425W210011 (Year: 2021) Questioned Costs: None identified Prior Year Finding: FA 2022-001, FA 2021-001, FA 2020-001, FA 2019-003, FA 2018-002, FA 2017-004 Description: The policies and procedures of the School District were insufficient to provide adequate internal controls over equipment and real property management as it relates to the Child Nutrition Cluster and Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund programs. Corrective Action Plans: Management has strengthened controls over equipment to ensure that the records are complete, accurate and r reflect all required information. We are in the process of developing a physical inventory list of equipment. The inventory listing will have all identifying information such as an item description, an identifying number, the source of funding, the title holder, the acquisition date, the cost, the percentage of federal participation in the project costs, the location of the equipment, the use and condition of the equipment, and any ultimate disposal data for each piece of equipment. A complete physical inventory will be performed each year and reconciled with the equipment listing. Estimated Completion Date: 12/31/2025 Contact Person: Christopher Stephens, Chief Financial Officer Telephone: 229-268-4761 Email: christopher.stephens@dooly.k12.ga.us