Finding 497494 (2022-017)

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Requirement
F
Questioned Costs
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Year
2022
Accepted
2024-09-20

AI Summary

  • Core Issue: The District failed to maintain accurate capital asset records for equipment purchased with federal funds.
  • Impacted Requirements: Non-compliance with federal regulations for equipment management, including annual physical inventory and safeguarding controls.
  • Recommended Follow-up: Ensure the new district updates capital asset records, conducts annual inventories, and implements a control system for safeguarding equipment.

Finding Text

Criteria: For equipment acquired with federal funds, the District is required to maintain equipment records, conduct a physical inventory annually, and have an appropriate control system in in place to safeguard equipment. Condition: We identified capital assets purchased with ESSER funds. The District had not updated its capital assets inventory prior to our audit fieldwork, so we combined the capital asset schedules of the previous two districts and updated for additions during the June 30, 2022 fiscal year. While these assets have been noted by us as having been purchased with federal funds, we were unable to determine that the District has done so in their records going forward. Effect: The District was not in compliance with the requirements for equipment and real property management. Cause: The District did not assign staff to combine the capital assets of the previous districts and record additions for the fiscal year, noting those purchased with federal funds. We were unable to determine that an inventory was conducted or that an appropriate control system was in place to safeguard equipment. Recommendation: Clarendon County School District should ensure that its capital asset records are updated to include all capital assets of Clarendon County School District Four, that it conducts a physical inventory annually, and that there is an appropriate control system in place to safeguard equipment. District response: The District no longer exists due to consolidation. Proper maintenance of assets will be practiced in the new district by the Finance & Technology Departments.

Corrective Action Plan

The district no longer exists due to consolidation. Proper maintenance of assets will be practiced in the new district by the Finance and Technology Departments. Anticipated completion date: 6/30/23

Categories

Equipment & Real Property Management

Other Findings in this Audit

Programs in Audit

ALN Program Name Expenditures
84.010 Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies $1.27M
84.027 Special Education_grants to States $956,715
10.553 School Breakfast Program $261,319
84.424 Student Support and Academic Enrichment Program $210,157
84.367 Improving Teacher Quality State Grants $181,894
84.013 Title I State Agency Program for Neglected and Delinquent Children and Youth $80,224
84.048 Career and Technical Education -- Basic Grants to States $71,669
84.358 Rural Education $46,141
84.173 Special Education_preschool Grants $31,200
84.425 Education Stabilization Fund $29,557
12.U01 Rotc $27,501
10.582 Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program $11,138
10.555 National School Lunch Program $5,159