Finding 9933 (2023-005)

- Repeat Finding
Requirement
AB
Questioned Costs
-
Year
2023
Accepted
2024-01-25
Audit: 13565
Auditor: Eccezion

AI Summary

  • Core Issue: The District failed to document personnel expenses for employees charged to the ESSER grant, which is a repeat finding from last year.
  • Impacted Requirements: Management must document time and effort for employees whose salaries are charged to the grant, as required by federal compliance standards.
  • Recommended Follow-Up: The District should review and understand compliance requirements to ensure proper documentation of personnel expenses moving forward.

Finding Text

1. FINDING NUMBER: 2023 - 005 2. THIS FINDING IS: Repeat from Prior year Year originally reported 2022-002 3. Federal Program Name and Year: ESSER 4. Project No.: 4998-E2, 4998-E3, 4998-HL 5. CFDA No.: 84.425D, 84.425U & 84.425W 6. Passed Through: Illinois State Board of Education 7. Federal Agency: US Department of Education 8. Criteria or specific requirement (including statutory, regulatory, or other citation): Management is responsible for documenting personnel expenses (time and effort) for employees that had part of their salary charged to the grant. 9. Condition: During the course of our audit, we determined that the personnel expense (time and effort) was not documented for employees that had part of their salary charged to the grant. 10. Questioned Costs: N/A 11. Context:Since this is a new grant the District was not aware of the requirement to document personnel expenses (time and effort) for employees that had part of their salary charged to the grant. 12. Effect: District does not have documentation for personnel expense (time and effort) per the compliance requirements. 13. Cause: District was not aware of this compliance requirement. 14. Recommendation: District should review compliance requirements to ensure all compliance requirements are met. 15. Management's response: The District will review compliance requirements to ensure all compliance requirements are met and will implement changes going forward to ensure personnel expense (time and effort) is documented.

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Other Findings in this Audit

Programs in Audit

ALN Program Name Expenditures
84.010 Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies $107,546
84.027 Special Education_grants to States $49,498
10.555 National School Lunch Program $43,746
93.778 Medical Assistance Program $35,043
84.367 Improving Teacher Quality State Grants $26,050
84.424 Student Support and Academic Enrichment Program $10,000
84.173 Special Education_preschool Grants $4,906
84.425 Education Stabilization Fund $4,700
32.009 Emergency Connectivity Fund Program $1,410