Finding 1136205 (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

Questioned Costs 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