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California's Controls Over Summer Food Service Program

Report Information

Date Issued
Report Number:
27004-0001-41
Report Type
Audit
Component
Food and Nutrition Service
Description
We reviewed the California State agency’s controls for operating under the Summer Food Service Program requirements and sponsor and site compliance with those requirements. We have reported our separate findings in an interim report dated September 2017 and this final report.
Joint Report
Yes
Participating OIG
Department of Agriculture OIG
Agency Wide
Yes (agency-wide)
Questioned Costs
$380,001
Funds for Better Use
$0
View report on Oversight.gov

Recommendations

Advise the State agency of best practice to expand administrative review under certain circumstances in which the State believes it is necessary to obtain sufficient information to ensure SFSP sponsors’ compliance with program requirements.

Direct the State agency to develop and implement procedures to ensure SFSP sponsors’ corrective actions adequately address the underlying cause of sponsors’ noncompliance, and follow up to ensure the corrective actions are effective.

Direct the State agency to provide its staff responsible for conducting SFSP administrative reviews with training that is focused on the sponsors’ SFSP fiscal accountability requirements.

Direct the State agency to develop and implement procedures to periodically verify the reviewers’ determinations (for example, requiring the State agency reviewers to maintain fiscal supporting documentation for review).

Direct the State agency to confirm the sponsor questionable costs totaling $215,476 identified by OIG, and recover any disallowed costs from the SFSP sponsors.