Finding 1190871 (2025-102)

Material Weakness Repeat Finding
Requirement
B
Questioned Costs
-
Year
2025
Accepted
2026-03-27

AI Summary

  • Core Issue: Expenditures for the Child and Adult Care Food Program were misreported as costs for other nutrition programs.
  • Impacted Requirements: Internal controls must ensure compliance with federal regulations regarding accurate reporting and allocation of costs.
  • Recommended Follow-Up: The School should improve its process for identifying and reporting expenditures by specific nutrition programs.

Finding Text

Condition: Expenditures for the Child and Adult Care Food Program were incorrectly reported as expenditures to other nutrition programs. Criteria: According to 2 CFR §200.303, Internal Controls, non-Federal entities must establish and maintain effective internal control over federal awards that provides reasonable assurance the entity is managing the award in compliance with federal statutes, regulations, and the terms and conditions of the award. Further, under 2 CFR §§200.400, Policy Guide, and 200.405, Allocable Costs, costs are to be adequately supported as charged to the Federal award and must be necessary, reasonable, allocable, and conform to any limitations or exclusions set forth in federal regulations or award terms. Cause: The School did not understand the need to properly identify expenditures to the appropriate formula grant nutrition program. Effect: Although expenditures were properly reported collectively over all the nutrition programs, expenditures for specific nutrition programs were incorrectly reported for various separately funded nutrition programs. Recommendation: We recommend that the School properly identify and report nutrition program expenditures by program. Management’s Response: The School’s responsible officials’ views and planned corrective action are in its corrective action plan at the end of the report.

Corrective Action Plan

Condition: Expenditures for the Child and Adult Care Food Program were incorrectly reported as expenditures to other nutrition programs. Recommendation: The auditors recommend that the School properly identify and report nutrition program expenditures by program. Contact Name: Anastacia Europa Ruiz, Chief Operating Officer Corrective Action Planned: The School Management will identify nutrition program expenditures by each separately funded program and report such expenditures by each separately funded program. Anticipated Completion Date: June 30, 2026

Categories

Allowable Costs / Cost Principles Matching / Level of Effort / Earmarking Internal Control / Segregation of Duties

Other Findings in this Audit

  • 1190863 2025-101
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1190864 2025-101
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1190865 2025-101
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1190866 2025-101
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1190867 2025-101
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1190868 2025-101
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1190869 2025-101
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1190870 2025-102
    Material Weakness Repeat

Programs in Audit

ALN Program Name Expenditures
10.558 CHILD AND ADULT CARE FOOD PROGRAM $513,505
10.185 LOCAL FOOD FOR SCHOOLS COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT PROGRAM $356,237
10.555 NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM $272,273
84.010 TITLE I GRANTS TO LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES $191,373
10.553 SCHOOL BREAKFAST PROGRAM $170,320
84.027 SPECIAL EDUCATION GRANTS TO STATES $85,190
10.559 SUMMER FOOD SERVICE PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN $52,028
84.365 ENGLISH LANGUAGE ACQUISITION STATE GRANTS $39,486
84.424 STUDENT SUPPORT AND ACADEMIC ENRICHMENT PROGRAM $15,853
84.367 SUPPORTING EFFECTIVE INSTRUCTION STATE GRANTS (FORMERLY IMPROVING TEACHER QUALITY STATE GRANTS) $15,120
84.371 COMPREHENSIVE LITERACY DEVELOPMENT $10,253
84.173 SPECIAL EDUCATION PRESCHOOL GRANTS $144