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Attached Document:
10-ocf-lcm-03.pdf
OMM/OCFS/OTDA Materials: LCMs Issued by OCFS
10-OCFS-LCM-03: New York State Child Care Block Grant Supplemental American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Allocations for the Period October 1, 2009 through March 31, 2011
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The purpose of this Local Commissioners Memorandum (LCM) is to inform social services districts (districts) of the second issuance of district allocations of the federal child care stimulus funds that New York State received under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), Public Law 111-5. The LCM also provides program and claiming requirements associated with these federal funds.
The ARRA allocation is a one-time award made to New York State by the federal government. The State must obligate ARRA funds by September 30, 2010 and expend these funds by September 30, 2011. There is no provision to roll over unspent ARRA funds past this time frame. Therefore, in order for the State to meet federal time-frame requirements for expenditures, districts must expend all ARRA funds by March 31, 2011 and submit final claims for expenditures by June 30, 2011.
In order to maximize the use of ARRA funds statewide, districts that receive an ARRA allocation must complete Attachment E, informing the Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) Division of Child Care Services whether they will accept or decline the second issuance of the ARRA allocation. Districts must also report on Attachment E the amount of the second ARRA allocation they intend to use. Districts that have not fully used the first ARRA allocation must report on Attachment E the amount that they have not expended and the amount they intend to use. Districts must complete and return Attachment E to OCFS Division of Child Care Services by July 20, 2010. This time frame will allow OCFS to re-obligate any allocation or portion of allocations that a district has indicated it will not use.
Those districts that are receiving an ARRA allocation for the first time must submit a completed Subrecipient Section 1512 Report Form to the OCFS Division of Child Care Services by July 31, 2010 even if they have not expended any ARRA funds. Thereafter, districts only need to submit a Subrecipient Section 1512 Report Form when they are making a claim, or if there is a change to any of the data that the district reported on its initial Subrecipient Section 1512 Report Form, even if there is no claim.
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Created: 7/5/2010
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