Finding 1174608 (2025-004)

Material Weakness Repeat Finding
Requirement
A
Questioned Costs
-
Year
2025
Accepted
2026-02-19
Audit: 388113
Organization: Catron County (NM)

AI Summary

  • Core Issue: Missing grant award agreements and untimely reimbursement requests indicate poor management of federal funds.
  • Impacted Requirements: 27 out of 40 expenditures had issues, including missing purchase orders and lack of approval signatures.
  • Recommended Follow-Up: Ensure all grant documentation is complete and timely, and improve tracking of award statuses.

Finding Text

During our test work of federal award reimbursements, expenditures, New Mexico capital outlay appropriations, documentation, supporting invoices, and reimbursement requests, grant award agreements were not available or present in County records. Reimbursement requests are not timely. 27/40 expenditures had the following issues:  16 - Missing purchase orders  7 - Purchase orders dated after the invoice date  4 - Journal entries for fuel allocations were missing approval signature County is not following award guidelines to maintain the accounting of grant activity for reimbursement requests, expenditures and supporting documentation. The County has numerous awards that are not managed and status of awards is not current. Some progress has been made by the County to resolve this finding.

Corrective Action Plan

The grant employee that was hired in this last fiscal year resigned and there was a period that it was handled by the county manager. The county has since contracted with an outside agency to handle the grants far Catron County.

Categories

Procurement, Suspension & Debarment Allowable Costs / Cost Principles Cash Management Reporting

Other Findings in this Audit

  • 1174606 2025-004
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1174607 2025-013
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1174609 2025-013
    Material Weakness Repeat

Programs in Audit

ALN Program Name Expenditures
10.665 SCHOOLS AND ROADS - GRANTS TO STATES $2.73M
21.032 LOCAL ASSISTANCE AND TRIBAL CONSISTENCY FUND $292,636