Finding 1141189 (2024-004)

Material Weakness Repeat Finding
Requirement
B
Questioned Costs
-
Year
2024
Accepted
2025-06-13
Audit: 358820
Organization: Stillwater County (MT)

AI Summary

  • Core Issue: Program expenditures for FEMA grants were not tracked separately in the general ledger for each Project Worksheet.
  • Impacted Requirements: This violates federal cost principles outlined in 2 CFR part 200, subpart E.
  • Recommended Follow-up: Implement internal controls to ensure expenditures are separately identified in the general ledger.

Finding Text

2024-004 FEMA grants (repeated 2023-018) CFDA Title: Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) CFDA Number: 97.036 Federal Award Number:FEMA-4655-DR-MT Federal Agency: Montana Department of Emergency Services Pass-through Entity: Department of Homeland Security Condition: Program expenditures were not separately identified in the general ledger for each Project Worksheet (PW). Questioned Costs: None Context: The cost principles in 2 CFR part 200, subpart E (cost principles), prescribe the cost accounting requirements associated with the administration of federal awards. Direct costs are those costs that can be identified specifically with a particular final cost objective, such as a federal award, or other internally or externally funded activity, or that can be directly assigned to such activities relatively easily with a high degree of accuracy. Effect: Non-compliance with federal cost principles. Cause: The County does not have internal control policies and procedures in place that allows it to comply with cost principles outlined in the Uniform Guidance. Recommendation: Program expenditures should be separately identified in the general ledger.

Categories

Subrecipient Monitoring Allowable Costs / Cost Principles Internal Control / Segregation of Duties

Other Findings in this Audit

  • 564747 2024-004
    Material Weakness Repeat

Programs in Audit

ALN Program Name Expenditures
97.036 Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (presidentially Declared Disasters) $1.41M
20.106 Airport Improvement Program, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Programs, and Covid-19 Airports Programs $854,983
11.037 Chips Incentives Program $828,842
10.760 Water and Waste Disposal Systems for Rural Communities $519,561
11.307 Economic Adjustment Assistance $350,468
21.032 Local Assistance and Tribal Consistency Fund $207,765
97.039 Hazard Mitigation Grant $166,883
97.042 Emergency Management Performance Grants $75,435
15.230 Invasive and Noxious Plant Management $58,160
10.665 Schools and Roads - Grants to States $54,469
97.067 Homeland Security Grant Program $12,500