Finding Text
Finding No.: 2023-004
Federal Agency: U.S. Department of Agriculture
AL Program: 10.555 Child Nutrition Cluster
Federal Award No.: 7GU300GUB
Area: Eligibility
Questioned Costs: $0
Criteria:
In accordance with the National School Lunch Act, state agencies are required to annually notify
local educational agencies (LEAs) of district-wide eligibility for the community eligibility
provision (CEP). By May 1 of each year, state agencies must publish lists of eligible and near-
eligible LEAs and schools on their state agency websites.
Condition:
As of September 30, 2024, the annual notification for School Year (SY) 2022-2023 is not
published on GDOE’s website. The most recent publication is for SY 2021-2022.
Cause:
GDOE did not enforce controls over compliance with the applicable eligibility requirements
relative to annual notifications and publications.
Effect:
GDOE is in noncompliance with applicable eligibility requirements. No questioned cost is
presented as we are unable to quantify the extent of noncompliance.
Recommendation:
GDOE should establish and implement internal controls over compliance with applicable
eligibility requirements. Responsible personnel should prepare and publish and required
notifications.
Views of Responsible Officials:
GDOE agrees with the finding. GDOE did not published School Year 2022-2023 eligibility
notifications for the community eligibility provision to the GDOE website by May 1, 2023 as
required by the National School Lunch Act (NSLA). GDOE Child Nutrition Program (CNP)
division is aware of the requirement and has publicly posted eligibility notifications to ensure
compliance to NSLA. GDOE does not anticipate this will be an audit finding moving forward.
Finding No.: 2023-004, continued
Federal Agency: U.S. Department of Agriculture
AL Program: 10.555 Child Nutrition Cluster
Federal Award No.: 7GU300GUB
Area: Eligibility
Questioned Costs: $0
Views of Responsible Officials, continued:
Plan of action and completion date:
The CNP Office has incorporated a calendar reminder within the CNP Office and updated the
internal calendar of report due dates to facilitate the timely upload of the required information to
the GDOE CNP website.
Plan to monitor and responsible officials:
The CNP State Administrator, Franklin Cruz, will ensure that CEP eligibility notifications are
posted to the GDOE website by May 1 of every year to be in compliance with the reporting
requirements of the NSLA.