Finding 971425 (2023-001)

1. FINDING NUMBER:14 2023 - 001 2. THIS FINDING IS: New 3. Federal Program Name and Year: Child Nutrition Cluster 4. Project No.: 4210-00, 4210-BT, 4210-SC, 4299-00 5. CFDA No.: 10.555 6. Passed Through: Illinois State Board of Education 7. Federal Agency: US Department of Agriculture 8. Criteria or specific requirement (including statutory, regulatory, or other citation): For the meal counts that are submitted, the District should have someone review the daily count reports to the schedule submitted to ISBE to make sure that they match and are correct. 9. Condition: The District submitted a claim for meals higher than the count actually served. 10. Questioned Costs: $71. 11. Context: Selected one month of meal counts and reviewed the month to make sure meal counts submitted matched counted number of meals served 12. Effect: The District is not in compliance with requesting the correct number of meals to be reimbursed. 13. Cause: The District did not correctly fill out the form to claim the correct number of meals. 14. Recommendation: We recommend that the District review its processes and make sure the report used for daily counts matches the reports submitted to ISBE. 15. Management's response18: Management will review and implement procedures to ensure the claim forms are filled out correctly.