Program misclassification

Certified a catered dinner as administration

$4,021.30

Amount in this finding

DGrade D · provisionalMercer County

Program misclassification · Verified · Updated 10/04/2026 · 3 documents

The FY2025 report certifies 10,600.60 spent, all of it as administrative expense, and describes it as salary, rental rights for a documentary and community engagement events and listening sessions (p1). The 10,600.60 ties to the cent to the account's payments in the year. It includes a cold dinner of 2,549.00 and a 20 percent service fee of 509.80 at the Conference Center at MCCC, purchase order 25-06649, check 15128 on 06/19/2025. On 09/26/2025 the account paid B Bistro 962.50 for deli sandwiches, cold beverages and a gratuity, purchase order 25-10139, check 18129. The FY2026 report places that order in no program and describes its administration as salary only. Catered food is not among the uses Exhibit E lists, and no listed use covers it. The two orders total 4,021.30.