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City of CottonwoodLocal Government

EIN: 866007877

UEI: L2JKCYB98WH5

Audited by: The Pun Group

Oversight agency: 20 [Department of Transportation]

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Data as of September 2, 2026

City of Cottonwood10 audit years1 findings
10
Audit Years
1
Total Findings
0
Repeat Findings
$4.2M
Federal Awards Expended (FY 2025)

FY 2025-06-30

LOW-RISK AUDITEE$4,162,700 federal awards expendedNo findings recorded this year

Management decision deadline — for entities that funded this organization

The FAC accepted this audit on January 12, 2026. Under 2 CFR 200.521(d), a pass-through entity that provided federal funds to this organization for this audit period must issue a management decision on these findings by July 12, 2026 (53 days ago).

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FY 2024-06-30

LOW-RISK AUDITEE$2,521,845 federal awards expendedNo findings recorded this year

FAC accepted this audit on January 17, 2025 — management decision was due July 17, 2025.

FY 2023-06-30

LOW-RISK AUDITEE$1,712,026 federal awards expendedNo findings recorded this year

FAC accepted this audit on March 22, 2024 — management decision was due September 22, 2024.

FY 2022-06-30

LOW-RISK AUDITEE$6,492,311 federal awards expendedNo findings recorded this year

FAC accepted this audit on March 16, 2023 — management decision was due September 16, 2023.

FY 2021-06-30

LOW-RISK AUDITEE$4,514,450 federal awards expendedNo findings recorded this year

FAC accepted this audit on January 25, 2022 — management decision was due July 25, 2022.

FY 2020-06-30

LOW-RISK AUDITEE$2,353,128 federal awards expendedNo findings recorded this year

FAC accepted this audit on March 9, 2021 — management decision was due September 9, 2021.

FY 2019-06-30

LOW-RISK AUDITEE$1,349,635 federal awards expended

FAC accepted this audit on July 8, 2020 — management decision was due January 8, 2021.

2019-001
Activities Allowed or Unallowed / Cost Allowability
SIGNIFICANT DEFICIENCY

During our testing, we noted 3 out of 40 employee pay periods in which the hours charged to the program and paid to the employees did not agree to the number of hours on the employees? timesheets. The hours on the timesheets were underreported in the payroll system (Springbrook) for each of the three selections tested. Criteria: Payroll charges are allowable costs to the program and should be charged to the program based on actual hours worked on the program. The basis for the payroll charge is documented through employees? timesheets. Identification as a Repeat Finding: Not applicable. Questioned Costs: None. Context: The City tracks payroll costs and charges the costs to the program based on actual hours worked. The condition noted above was identified during testing of payroll costs charged to the program. Cause: The City did not have procedures in place to review the entry of the hours on employees? timesheets to the hours into the payroll system (Springbrook) that charges payroll costs to the program. Effect: The risk of the City charging an unsupported amount to the program is increased. Recommendation: We recommend that the City enhance procedures to ensure the accuracy of payroll costs charged to the program. This can be accomplished through the completion and review of a reconciliation of hours charged to the program to employee timesheets.

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Finding: 2019-001 Allowable Activities/Allowable Costs United States Department of Transportation Passed through Arizona Department of Transportation Formula Grants for Rural Areas ? CFDA 20.509 Grant Number: ADOT GRT 16-0005592 ADOT GRT 18-0007093 Condition: During our testing, we noted 3 out of 40 employee pay periods in which the hours charged to the program and paid to the employees did not agree to the number of hours on the employees? timesheets. The hours on the timesheets were underreported in the payroll system (Springbrook) for each of the three selections tested. Criteria: Payroll charges are allowable costs to the program and should be charged to the program based on actual hours worked on the program. The basis for the payroll charge is documented through employees? timesheets. Identification as a Repeat Finding: Not applicable. Questioned Costs: None. Context: The City tracks payroll costs and charges the costs to the program based on actual hours worked. The condition noted above was identified during testing of payroll costs charged to the program. Cause: The City did not have procedures in place to review the entry of the hours on employees? timesheets to the hours into the payroll system (Springbrook) that charges payroll costs to the program. Effect: The risk of the City charging an unsupported amount to the program is increased. Recommendation: We recommend that the City enhance procedures to ensure the accuracy of payroll costs charged to the program. This can be accomplished through the completion and review of a reconciliation of hours charged to the program to employee timesheets.

Corrective Action Plan

The staff of the finance department strives to always be as accurate as possible but is not always able to obtain perfection. City staff made sure that the payroll errors that happened in Fiscal Year 2019 were corrected before the end of the fiscal year. Any and all errors that are discovered are corrected as quickly as possible. The payroll processing for the City is a long and manual process and a double check of the timesheets to the data entry is done for every payroll. We will continue to do a double check and review of all timesheets compared to data entry to work on eliminating any future errors and if errors are discovered will work on correcting those errors.

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FY 2018-06-30

LOW-RISK AUDITEE$3,121,453 federal awards expendedNo findings recorded this year

FAC accepted this audit on March 28, 2019 — management decision was due September 28, 2019.

FY 2017-06-30

LOW-RISK AUDITEE$2,603,295 federal awards expendedNo findings recorded this year

FAC accepted this audit on March 26, 2018 — management decision was due September 26, 2018.

FY 2016-06-30

$1,214,491 federal awards expendedNo findings recorded this year

FAC accepted this audit on January 10, 2017 — management decision was due July 10, 2017.

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