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Management response/corrective action: The Town Council approves the projects for ARPA and the department that the project is related to manages the project and codes the invoices. The Finance Department has two staff and has been implementing new financial software. Due to the volume of work the Finance Department cannot reconcile the Town’s expenditure routinely. Everything posted to ARPA is reviewed to make sure the cost is appropriate during the reporting period ending March 31st. The report is filed as of 4/30/24, based on the snapshot of what was coded to the ARPA expense lines as of March 31st. No costs reported were not considered ARPA expenses. At year end, a thorough review of all the Town’s expenditure is done, and some ARPA costs were found coded to non-ARPA account. These costs were moved to the ARPA account in June as part of year end entries. Some of these costs were paid in the reporting period of March 31st and had they been coded correctly they would have been in that report. These costs were captured in the next annual report that is due 04/30/25. The Finance Department staff will be increasing to three in FY26 so this will give the Finance Director more time to review the monthly expenditure to find any miscoded invoices.