Corrective Action Plans

Finding 2022-002 ? Child Nutrition Cluster ? Reporting Contact Person Responsible for Corrective Action: Tonia Batesole Contact Phone Number: 219-477-4933 x2141 Views of Responsible Official: We concur with the finding. Description of Corrective Action Plan: When entering the Monthly Food Service Claim, a second person will check what has been entered correctly on the screen for reimbursement before submission. This will be signified by initials by both the checker and submitter. Anticipated Completion Date: Already in place.

FINDING 2022-004 Contact Person Responsible for Corrective Action: Dan Durrwachter Contact Phone Number: 765-473-3081 Views of Responsible Official: We agree with these findings. Description of Corrective Action Plan: Our Food Service Director will receive the poverty status application and review them as they are inputted into skyward. Our Food Service Treasurer will review to make sure the application was completed correctly and calculated accurately. Additionally, the food service treasurer will review and approve the uploaded direct certification and income guidelines. Anticipated Completion Date: 6/01/2023

FINDING 2022-003 Contact Person Responsible for Corrective Action: Dan Durrwachter Contact Phone Number: 765-473-3081 Views of Responsible Official: We agree with these findings. Description of Corrective Action Plan: Our Food Service Director will collect food service amounts that have been collected at each school building through our online management system in skyward. Our Food Service Director will then give the numbers to our Food Service Treasurer where she will review the data and approve the numbers as she submits them for reimbursement through the state. Anticipated Completion Date:6/01/2023

2022-003 Deficiencies in controls surrounding payroll expenditures. A. Name of contact person responsible for corrective action: Name: Michelle Cage Title: Chief Financial Officer B. Corrective action planned: The business manager will strengthen controls to ensure supplemental pay and other pay related items are board approved and recorded by the proper scales or rates. Time sheets will be reconciled to each payroll. C. Anticipated completion date: June 30, 2023

2022-002 Weaknesses in controls surrounding non-payroll expenditures. A. Name of contact person responsible for corrective action: Name: Michelle Cage Title: Chief Financial Officer B. Corrective action planned: The business manager will strengthen controls to ensure adequate documentation is provided and approval on purchases. C. Anticipated completion date: June 30, 2023

Response and Corrective Action Plan: The District will require the certification regarding suspension and debarment as outlined by the Office of Management and Budget.

Finding 2022-005 Child Nutrition Program Income and Expense Report The Food Service Income and Expense Report for the year ended 6/30/22 was revised March 29, 2023 by the food service bookkeeper and reviewed by Crossmark Business Services before it was entered. The error in the federal reimbursement was corrected as well. To prevent these errors from happening in the future, Crossmark has created an excel file to make it easier for the food service bookkeeper to complete this report. Any submissions or revisions will be reviewed by Crossmark Business Services before they are entered in the CNP website.

Contact Person ? Shane Tappe, Superintendent Corrective Action Plan ? Will establish control procedures over meal reimbursement reporting. Completion Date ? December 20, 2022

U.S. Department of Agriculture Finding 2022-004: Child Nutrition Cluster Resource Management Procedures Recommendation: The School District should develop and complete a spend-down plan to ensure it reduces its Food Service Fund net cash resources below the maximum allowable amount. Action Taken: The district has submitted a spend-down plan to the Michigan Department of Education. That plan was approved and an extension of time was granted by MDE to allow the School District to implement it through the 2022-23 fiscal year. The School District has been buying equipment and seeking bids on additional equipment. The School District is also continuing its approved use of the Community Eligibility Provision to provide free lunches to all students. Responsible Person and Anticipated Completion Date: The Director of Finance and Food Service Supervisor will be responsible for reducing the fund balance in a responsible way. Due to the scope of the issue and potential solutions, implementation will occur through the 2022-23 year. If the Michigan Department of Education has questions regarding this plan, please call Jerry McDowell at (231) 893-1005.

Purchase Needed Equipment

Since June 30, 2022, the District has purchased and replaced needed Kitchen equipment in the amount of $31,907.18. This amount is in excess of the Net Cash Resources Finding of $29,668.

Reporting Material Weakness in Internal Control Over Compliance Finding Summary: The District has no procedure in place for review of monthly meal counts submitted for reimbursement from the Minnesota Department of Education. Responsible Individuals: Peter Haapala, Superintendent Corrective Action Plan: The District will update their reporting process to ensure that there is review of monthly meal counts submitted for reimbursement from the Minnesota Department of Education. Anticipated Completion Date: June 30, 2023

Finding: Certain timecards within the Child Nutrition Cluster - Assistance Listing #10.555, #10.553 and COVID-19 #10.559, were not properly approved prior to payment of the payroll expenditure. Response: Application used to accumulate time and attendance records does not contain embedded administrative programming and controls to ensure all time and attendance information is approved by the employee and supervisor prior to payroll preparation. Management is working with the software provider to develop and embed the appropriate administrative controls and procedures to provide automated processing. In the immediate term, management will, with the assistance of the software provider, develop and utilize a hard copy report of all time and attendance records for each pay period by employee, school and/or department. Prior to payroll preparation, all entries on the report will be reconciled and manual employee and supervisor approvals will be documented. Principals and Department Heads will receive training in proper procedures for timecard approval. Anticipated Completion Date: August 2023

FINDING 2022-011 Contact Person Responsible for Corrective Action: Whitney Dixon, Treasurer, Samantha Todd, Grants Manager, and Christopher Dixon, Director of Nutrition Contact Phone Number: 574-533-8631 Views of Responsible Official: We concur with the finding. Description of Corrective Action Plan: Eligibility ? Real Time Reports During the October Pupil Enrollment process, the student roster will be pulled from Data Exchange (DEX). The student data will be pulled from the food service software. This data will be compared and digitally signed by building principals. Student socioeconomic status will be reviewed and verified by the food service manager or designee. The reviewed and verified PE report will be digitally reviewed and signed by the CFO and Superintendent. Eligibility ? Direct Certifications/Income Applications Monthly the grants manager completes the DC download and imports the data into the school nutrition software. Once completed, the Director of School Nutrition verifies the information and signs the download document that is saved on the districts network. This control was implemented in March 2023. Participation of Private School Children Participation is determined by a process that includes standardized test scores and teacher input to determine what services are required. Test scores are provided at the beginning of the year, middle of the year, and end of the year to monitor and adjust accordingly the services that are required. Assistant Superintendent, Tracey Noe will review and sign the participation list and approve services at the nonpublic schools. This process will be implemented during the 2023-24 grant cycle. Anticipated Completion Date: October 2023, March 2023 and July 2023, respectively.

FINDING 2022-003 Contact Person Responsible for Corrective Action: Christopher Dixon, Director of Nutrition Contact Phone Number: 574-533-8631 Views of Responsible Official: We concur with the finding. Description of Corrective Action Plan: The School Corporation will document the review/oversight of disbursements from program funds prior to payment. Claims will be prepared and reviewed by Christopher Dixon, Director of Nutrition, or designee, and submitted to the Accounts Payable Specialist for payment. Claims will be initialed or signed demonstrating approval of disbursements. Accounts Payable Specialist enters claims into the financial software and pays claims after approval by the Chief Financial Officer and School Board. Documentation for claims will be kept in the business office. GCS will obtain prior written approval from IDOE and approval documents will be maintained by the Director of Nutrition. Assistant Superintendent, Dr. Barry Younhans, retired from GCS in July 2022. This corrected the finding. To ensure compliance, the payroll distribution report is reviewed and signed by the Treasurer and applicable program administrators prior to the completion of payroll by the payroll specialist. The report is reviewed to verify that employees are paid out of the correct accounting line. This process was implemented in December 2022. Anticipated Completion Date: April 2023 INDIANA STATE

Blissfield Community Schools respectfully submits the following corrective action plan for the year ended June 30,2022. Auditor: Maner Costerisan 2425 E. Grand River Avenue, Suite 1 Lansing, MI 48912 Audit Period: Year ended June 30,2022 Finding - Financial Statement Audit: None noted Finding ? Federal Award: 2022-001 EXCESS FUND BALANCE - NONPROFIT FOOD SERVICE FUND Recommendation: The District should continue a spending plan to improve the food quality or take other action to improve non-profit food service per applicable federal regulations. Action to be taken: The business office will continue to submit spending down plan to MDE for board approval. Anticipated completion date: June 2023 Responsible party: Chief Financial Officer, Judy Pfund and Food Service Director, Amy Gschwind District Response: A majority of the purchases identified in our spend down plan as a result of our June 30, 2021 financial position were not received until July, so our excess fund balance reflected in our June 30, 2022 reports includes last year?s excess also. Once we have computed the excess, we will look at any additional equipment needs as well as increasing food quality. Respectfully submitted, Judith Pfund, CPA Executive Director of Finance

Response: 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 School Business Administrator have plans to improve and replace cafeteria equipment. The replacement plan will be completed in conjunction with the District?s Capital Project which is scheduled to be completed by June 30, 2023. Retained Balance for Pending Settlements - Increased wages (extending into 2022 and beyond) The minimum wage in New York State is expected to continue to rise over the next several years according to legislation. The rate will rise to $14.20 per hour by the end of 2022. Annual increases will continue until the rate reaches $15.00 per hour (a 66% increase from 2015-2016 levels). 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 District recently increased hourly wages for food service helpers and cooks in order to attract additional workers to maintain operations. Enhanced Meals - Food Service Director Joseph Kilmer and Food Service Manager, Ann Overhiser, 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 District plans to spend a portion of the School Lunch excess cash on cafeteria equipment as a part of its ongoing Capital Project which is expected to be completed by June 30, 2023.

Identifying Number: 2022-003: U.S. Department of Education: Education Stabilization Fund: Student Aid Portion ? 84.425E (HEERF); U.S. Department of Agriculture: Child Nutrition Cluster ? 10.553, 10.555, and 10.559 (CNC) Finding: For one vendor paid with HEERF funding and one vendor paid from CNC funding, there was no documentation to support that the District had verified that the vendors were not suspended or debarred prior to purchases. Corrective Action Taken or Planned: This relates to the Entity Exclusion (Suspension/Debarment) list maintained on the federal SAM.GOV website. Access to the website and specifically the Entity search functions is limited to authorized/registered users. The corrective action plan for HEERF will include the designation of a Southeast Technical College employee with SAM.GOV access that will be the initial point of contact for vendor exclusion information for all Southeast Technical College employees. Additionally, the designated employee will periodically download, and post debarment lists to the Southeast Technical College internal website (myTech) that will be available to all employees purchasing goods/services that would be charged to federal programs. Additional corrective actions will include a review of existing Southeast Technical College procurement policies contained within Section D: Fiscal Management. Policies will be reviewed/revised to expand and reflect current federal procurement requirements under 2CRF200. Revised policies, debarment lists, and training will be provided to all employees on a periodic and ongoing basis. For the Child Nutrition Cluster, this particular vendor was not expected to go over $25,000 and was used for emergency purchases that did not go over $25,000 until the last purchase in June, 2022. It was recommended that all purchases with amounts expected to go over $25,000 be vetted through the District?s purchase order process. Since this vendor was not expected to go over $25,000, it did not go through the purchase order process. The District will continue to use the purchase order process for vendors expected to go over $25,000 to ensure debarment requirements are being followed. Contact person: HEERF: Rich Kluin, Vice President ? Finance and Operations, Southeast Technical College. CNC: Gay Anderson, Child Nutrition Supervisor. Status of finding ? HEERF procedures will continue to be followed. The CNC procedures will continue to be followed.

#2022-006 Untimely Data Collection Form and Single Audit Reporting Submission U.S. Department of Agriculture Child Nutrition Cluster School Breakfast Program AL #10.553 National School Lunch Program #10.555 Summer Food Service Program for Children AL#10.559 Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program #10.582 U.S. Department of Education Education Stabilization Fund (ESF) AL# 84.425 Recommendation: We recommend that Management of the Board of Education take the necessary steps to ensure that the year-end financial statements arc supported by accurate reconciliations and documentation in a timely manner o that the reporting package and data collection form can be submitted as required. Action Taken: Management of the Board of Education will properly plan and take the necessary steps to ensure that year-end financial statements are supp01ted by accurate reconciliations and other documentation so that the reporting package and data collection form can be submitted as required by the Uniform Guidance. Whitni Kines, Chief Financial Officer/Treasurer, hired on April 10, 2023, will be responsible for implementing these procedures by March 31, 2024.

Auditor?s Recommendation - When performing the paid lunch equity calculation the District must use the entire food service revenues and expenses to determine if the District meets an exemption from raising student lunch prices for the current school year. Action Taken - The National School Lunch Program is a new program for the District with the District starting participation in the program during the 2020-2021 school year. We now understand how the paid lunch equity calculation works and have calculated that correctly for the upcoming year. Our calculation for the upcoming year was confirmed with the District's auditors. Anticipated Completion Date - This has been completed. Contact Adam Englebretson, District Administrator, 920-876-3381.

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CORRECTIVE ACTION PLAN 2022-001 This finding is caused by the District?s Food Service Fund?s fund balance being over the USDA?s threshold of 3 months average expenditures. The District is fully aware of this situation and has a spend down plan in place to help alleviate the excess fund balance down to a reasonable level and anticipates the completion date for the corrective action plan be before the end of the 2022-23 fiscal year. The person responsible for the corrective action is Dana Reilly, Business Manager. The plan for monitoring adherence is the Business Manager will assess where the fund balance is after all of the projects from the spend down plan are completed.

Recommendation The cost of additional personnel to properly segregate accounting and financial responsibilities would appear to outweigh the benefits received. However, the management and Board of Education should constantly be aware of the possibility that errors, or fraud could occur, and continue current practices mitigating these possibilities and examine and implement other mitigating controls when appropriate. Action Taken The District has assessed the benefits and costs associated with proper segregation of duties for the District and has determined that costs would outweigh benefits received. The District understands the Inherent risks associated with improper segregation of accounting functions. Management has communicated the need for transactions to be well supported by documentation as well as seeking appropriate authorization when appropriate. The District requires monthly reporting to the Board of Education for all disbursements to ensure transactions are proper and potential errors and irregularities are identified on a timely basis. The District will continue to review accounting procedures and processes to further mitigate this internal control deficiency whenever possible and feasible.

Name of Contact Person: Matt Lacy, Chief Financial Officer Recommendation: We recommend the District monitor the Child Nutrition profit made and ensure all expenditures used to operate the program are properly charged to the program. Corrective Action: We will ensure that all eligible costs are charged to the program and modernize the equipment to reduce the accumulated carry-over. Proposed Completion Date: Immediately

Name of Contact Person: Matt Lacy, Chief Financial Officer Recommendation: We recommend the District verify a vendor?s status by checking the System for Award Management (SAM) maintained by the General Services Administration before making purchases expected to exceed $25,000. Corrective Action: We will verify all vendors? status using the System for Award Management (SAM) maintained by the General Services Administration before making purchases expected to exceed $25,000. Proposed Completion Date: Immediately