Finding 1136199 (2024-006)

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Requirement
L
Questioned Costs
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Year
2024
Accepted
2025-05-07
Audit: 355704
Auditor: Eccezion

AI Summary

  • Core Issue: Expenditures submitted for reimbursement do not align with the approved budget functions.
  • Impacted Requirements: Recipients must provide accurate data on expenditures as per the approved budget.
  • Recommended Follow-Up: The District should review and adjust the budget to ensure actual expenditures match the approved amounts.

Finding Text

FINDING NUMBER: 2024 - 006S 2. THIS FINDING IS: x New 3. Federal Program Name and Year: ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND 4. Project No.: 23-4998-D3, 25-4998-EB, 24-4998-E2, 24-4998-E3 5. CFDA No.: 84.425 6. Passed Through: ILLINOIS STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION 7. Federal Agency: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 8. Criteria or specific requirement (including statutory, regulatory, or other citation): Recipients are required to submit accurate data to the state outlining expenditures by specific functions, based on approved budget. 9. Condition: Expenditures submitted for reimbursement did not match the functions in the approved budget. 10. Questioned Costs: None 11. Context: Expenditures reports are not being reviewed in comparison to the approved budgets. 12. Effect: Grant funds are not spent as previously approved. 13. Cause: The District's review of expenditure reports did not prevent this issue. 14. Recommendation: We recommend that the District reviews and amends the budget as necessary to align actual with budgeted expenditures 15. Management's response: Management plans to implement procedures to ensure review of actual to budgeted expenditures.

Categories

Cash Management

Other Findings in this Audit

Programs in Audit

ALN Program Name Expenditures
84.010 Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies $377,200
84.425 Education Stabilization Fund $269,042
10.553 School Breakfast Program $167,369
84.367 Supporting Effective Instruction State Grants (formerly Improving Teacher Quality State Grants) $96,930
93.778 Medical Assistance Program $65,360
84.365 English Language Acquisition State Grants $57,835
84.027 Special Education Grants to States $40,873
84.048 Career and Technical Education -- Basic Grants to States $31,865
84.173 Special Education Preschool Grants $16,842
10.555 National School Lunch Program $6,180