Finding 390698 (2023-001)

Requirement

Questioned Costs

Year

2023

Accepted

2024-03-31

Audit: 301386

Organization: Wahupa Educational Services INC (CA)

Auditor: Goodsell & Company INC CPAS

AI Summary

Core Issue: The program did not meet the requirement that two-thirds of participants qualify as low-income and first-generation college students.
Impacted Requirements: Compliance with Title 34 regulations for the TRIO Talent Search program.
Recommended Follow-Up: Enhance oversight by the Program Director to ensure participant eligibility criteria are consistently met.

Finding Text

Federal Program: 84.044A TRIO – Talent Search (Department of Education) Award P044A210058 – 22 (Wahupa Talent Search City Project) Criteria: Title 34, Subtitle B, Chapter VI, Part 643 Talent Search: Two-thirds requirement for participants to qualify as Low-Income and First-Generation College. Condition: Total of Participants in Program did not meet the above-referenced Two-thirds requirement. Cause: Lack of Sufficient Oversight by Program Director Effect: No specific questioned cost is quantifiable—Population of Potential Participants is underserved. A statistically valid sample in which the total population of program participants were examined was used to determine the audit finding. However, this finding appears to be an isolated instance as no other program carried out by the Auditee failed to meet program requirements. This finding is not a repetition of a prior finding.

Corrective Action Plan

Corrective action plan includes more thorough monitoring on the part of executive director and program director to periodically and regularly monitor and assess that the required two-thirds of recipients meet the requirements for being first generation college attendees and come from low income families.

Other Findings in this Audit

967140 2023-001

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Programs in Audit

ALN	Program Name	Expenditures
84.066	Trio_educational Opportunity Centers	$312,503
84.047	Trio_upward Bound	$306,027
84.044	Trio_talent Search	$251,115