Excess Cost Reporting Per the requirement of IDEA and Title 34 of the Code of Federal Regulations § 300.16, recipients of federal IDEA Part B funds are required to demonstrate that the agency has spent at least a minimum average amount on the education of children with disabilities as it has spent on all other students before it expends IDEA Part B funds on providing special education and related services (excess cost). Excess cost is defined as costs that are in excess of the average annual per student expenditure level for elementary school or secondary school students. This demonstrates that the Charter LEA is not using federal funds in place of local and state funds for the core educational program in regard to children with disabilities. DMCS business staff will send each Charter LEA the most current state approved Excess Cost Calculation Excel Worksheet and instructions for the Charter LEA to complete, sign, and return to the DMCS no later than September 15th of each fiscal year. The DMCS must submit all worksheets to CDE no later than November 15th of each fiscal year. Federal Quarterly Expenditure Reports Federal funding is based on a reimbursement of special education expenditures reported for each reporting period throughout the grant year. At the close of each reporting period, DMCS business staff will send each Charter LEA a Grant Expenditure Report to be completed, signed, and returned to the DMCS by the date specified. Backup documentation of expenditures equaling the amount of expenditures claimed is required at each reporting period. Submission of the expenditure report to CDE is based on SELPA-wide expenditures per reporting period and is due to CDE within 30 days of the close of the reporting period. Reporting periods are as follows:
Report 1: Expenditures from July 1 through December 31 Report 2: Expenditures from January 1 through March 31 Report 3: Expenditures from April 1 through June 30 Report 4: Expenditures from July 1 through September 30 Report 5: Expenditures from October 1 through January 30 Report 6: Expenditures from February 1 through May 30 Report 7: Expenditures from June 1 through September 30
If a Charter LEA’s grant allocation is not fully expended by the end of Report 3, then the Charter LEA must submit a budget plan on how grant allocation will be expended in the following fiscal year.
Chapter 10 – Fiscal Allocation Plan, Charter SELPA
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As of 04/06/2018
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