Finding 973016 (2023-005)

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Requirement
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Questioned Costs
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Year
2023
Accepted
2024-05-13
Audit: 306138
Organization: Keppel Union School District (CA)
Auditor: Nigro & Nigro PC

AI Summary

  • Core Issue: The District is not tracking expenses separately for the Child Nutrition Program and CACFP, violating state requirements.
  • Impacted Requirements: Lack of separate accounting for program revenue and expenses leads to unclear financial reporting and potential compliance issues.
  • Recommended Follow-Up: Establish an interprogram vending agreement and accurately allocate costs to ensure fair distribution among programs.

Finding Text

Criteria: California Department of education Management Bulletin SNP-27-2015 and CACFP-07-2015 require educational agencies operating multiple child nutrition programs to separately account for program revenue and expenses. Condition: During our review expenditures we discovered that the District does not track expenses separately for Child Nutrition Program and Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). District does not maintain separate invoices and they do not have an established interprogram vending agreement. The District only charged the CACFP program $69,379 in 2022-23 fiscal years, all other expenses were charged to the National School Lunch Program. Context: Fiscal year 2022-23, occurring in the Cafeteria Fund. Questioned Costs: Due to the lack of information, auditor is unable to determine the questioned costs. Cause: The District does not have adequate controls in place to ensure that indirect costs are charged consistently across the board to all categorical programs. Effect: Common, shared expenses are not being charged in an equitable, logical manner between the programs. Recommendation: District should establish an interprogram vending agreement and determine how much the National School Lunch program was charged and subsequently reimburse the program. Views of Responsible Officials: Keppel Union School District has been working with consultants and auditors to establish an interprogram vending agreement to properly move expenses from 53100 to 53200 each month.

Categories

School Nutrition Programs

Other Findings in this Audit

Programs in Audit

ALN Program Name Expenditures
10.553 School Breakfast Program $1.41M
84.365 English Language Acquisition State Grants $175,615
84.010 Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies $158,033
10.555 National School Lunch Program $153,378
84.367 Improving Teacher Quality State Grants $129,431
84.425 Education Stabilization Fund $68,388
93.575 Child Care and Development Block Grant $62,400
84.027 Special Education_grants to States $17,771
10.558 Child and Adult Care Food Program $16,304
93.323 Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases (elc) $13,930
10.665 Schools and Roads - Grants to States $5,344
84.173 Special Education_preschool Grants $130