Finding 1164878 (2025-004)

Material Weakness Repeat Finding
Requirement
B
Questioned Costs
-
Year
2025
Accepted
2025-12-15

AI Summary

  • Core Issue: The District mistakenly drew down payroll expenses from the Title I grant twice, violating federal guidelines.
  • Impacted Requirements: This issue breaches 2 CFR 200.403, which requires only necessary and allowable costs to be charged to federal grants.
  • Recommended Follow-Up: Implement procedures to ensure all payroll accruals are reversed before the new fiscal year to prevent duplicate expense draws.

Finding Text

ALN 84.010 - Title I - Grant # 241530 2324 - Grant Ending September 30, 2024 Condition and Criteria: 2 CFR 200.403 of the Uniform Guidance mandates that only necessary, and allowable costs be drawn down off of federal grants. During the audit, we found that the prior fiscal year’s accrued payroll, which was drawn off of the grant in the previous fiscal year, was drawn off of the grant a second time in the current fiscal year. Effect: The District unintentionally drew payroll expenses off of the Title I grant a second time. Cause: The prior year accrued payroll related to Title I was not reversed out of the current year expenses prior to the Final Expenditure Report being prepared. Context: Management believed that all accrued payroll had been reversed out of the current fiscal year prior to preparing the Final Expenditure Report and did not intend to draw those expenses a second time. Questioned Costs: $53,509 Auditors' Recommendation: We recommend that management implement procedures to ensure that all accruals charged to federal grants are properly reversed in the subsequent fiscal year to ensure that duplicate draws on those same expenses are not made. Views of Responsible Officials and Planned Corrective Actions: The District understands the issue and will ensure that all payroll accruals are fully reversed at the start of the new fiscal year, to ensure that expenses are not drawn a second time. Please see the attached Corrective Action Plan prepared by the District.

Corrective Action Plan

Duplicate Title I Draw Condition: 2 CFR 200.403 of the Uniform Guidance mandates that only necessary, and allowable costs be drawn down off of federal grants. During the audit, we found that the prior fiscal year's accrued payroll, which was drawn off of the grant In the previous fiscal year, was drawn off of the grant a second time in the current fiscal year, creating questioned costs of $53,509. We recommend that management implement procedures to ensure that all accruals charged to federal grants are properly reversed in the subsequent fiscal year to ensure that duplicate draws on those same expenses are not made. Corrective Action: The District understands what happened and will work on developing procedures to prevent such duplicate draws do not occur in the future. Contact Person Responsible for Corrective Action: Chanda Cleaves, Executive Director of Finance Completion Date: This issue will be corrected moving forward.

Categories

Allowable Costs / Cost Principles

Other Findings in this Audit

  • 1164879 2025-005
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1164880 2025-005
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1164881 2025-005
    Material Weakness Repeat

Programs in Audit

ALN Program Name Expenditures
84.425 EDUCATION STABILIZATION FUND $20.29M
84.010 TITLE I GRANTS TO LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES $8.64M
10.555 NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM $1.43M
84.424 STUDENT SUPPORT AND ACADEMIC ENRICHMENT PROGRAM $1.12M
84.027 SPECIAL EDUCATION GRANTS TO STATES $1.09M
84.367 SUPPORTING EFFECTIVE INSTRUCTION STATE GRANTS (FORMERLY IMPROVING TEACHER QUALITY STATE GRANTS) $706,690
10.553 SCHOOL BREAKFAST PROGRAM $676,794
10.558 CHILD AND ADULT CARE FOOD PROGRAM $325,968
84.425 AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN $176,384
10.555 ENTITLEMENT COMMODITIES $171,859
10.582 FRESH FRUIT AND VEGETABLE PROGRAM $100,459
84.425 EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE TO NON PUBLIC SCHOOLS $83,931
84.173 SPECIAL EDUCATION PRESCHOOL GRANTS $55,592
10.559 SUMMER FOOD SERVICE PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN $36,824
93.778 MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM $32,697
84.365 ENGLISH LANGUAGE ACQUISITION STATE GRANTS $7,794