Finding: 2025-001 Bond Covenant Compliance Finding: 2025-002 Edgecombe County, NC For the Year Ended June 30, 2025 Corrective Action Plan Section III - Federal Award Findings and Question Costs Name of contact person: Angel Joyner, Brandy Dawes, Tina Radford, and Virginia Ewuell - Medicaid Superviso...
Finding: 2025-001 Bond Covenant Compliance Finding: 2025-002 Edgecombe County, NC For the Year Ended June 30, 2025 Corrective Action Plan Section III - Federal Award Findings and Question Costs Name of contact person: Angel Joyner, Brandy Dawes, Tina Radford, and Virginia Ewuell - Medicaid Supervisors; Denise McKnight - Social Services Program Administrator Corrective Action: All Medicaid Supervisors will meet to review the findings from this audit. A PowerPoint training will be developed and delivered to staff based on these findings. During this training, supervisors will be retrained on the use of application checklist for their programs and will review the checklist to identify and add any information workers may be missing when completing their casework. The application checklist will be updated to include the dates when actions are taken to prevent workers from simply checking items off. This will require case workers to complete a second verification of each action so the date can be accurately entered. Supervisors will also receive training on pulling reports to ensure SSI terminations are reviewed and ex-parte reviews are completed timely. After the refresher training for Medicaid Supervisors, a mandatory group training will be provided for Medicaid workers on Income calculations, including pulling and viewing electronic verification sources, household composition, requests for Informaiton, SSI terminations, and Documentation. Workers will also be trained on the proper use and importance of the application checklist. Supervisors will be responsible for completing weekly random audits focusing on accuracy and timeliness. A 30-day performance improvement plan will be implemented for workers who identify through these audits as having repeated errors. Proposed Completion Date: June 30, 2026. Section II. Financial Statement Findings Name of contact person: Linda Barfield, Chief Financial Officer Corrective Action: The County acknowledges that Water District No. 4 did not meet the 100% debt service coverage requirement for general obligation and installment financing for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025. While the District exceeded the required revenue bond coverage, the district-level net revenues were not sufficient to meet the combined debt service requirement. The County operates its water and sewer system as a single integrated utility system and does not maintain district-level rate structures. Revenues are generated and managed on a system-wide basis for financial stability and operational efficiency; however, USDA bond covenants require compliance to be measured by individual district. Although full compliance has not yet been achieved, the coverage ratio for District No. 4 continues to improve, increasing from 49% in FY 2023 to 61% in FY 2024 and to 65% in FY 2025. Management will continue to address this issue through ongoing financial monitoring and long-term system planning to achieve full covenant compliance. Edgecombe County County Administration Building 201 St. Andrew St., PO Box 10 Tarboro, NC 27886 252-641-7834 · Fax 252-641-0456 www.edgecombecountync.gov 176For the Year Ended June 30, 2025 Corrective Action Plan Edgecombe County County Administration Building 201 St. Andrew St., PO Box 10 Tarboro, NC 27886 252-641-7834 · Fax 252-641-0456 www.edgecombecountync.gov Section IV - State Award Findings and Question Costs Edgecombe County, NC Proposed Completion Date: Training and implementation of additional reviews and procedures will be implemented by January 15, 2025. Corrective actions for finding 2025-002 also apply to the State Award findings. Section III - Federal Award Findings and Question Costs (continued) 177