The county must have sufficient resources to incur the costs and then seek reimbursement. Counties do not have approved indirect cost rates, therefore they cannot collect indirect costs. Bill Bogue is researching the paperwork that would be needed to establish a rate for extension districts. Council accepts fiduciary responsibility and may have to pay the cost of a special audit if required in the grant. County must handle payroll, withholding, subcontracts, tax forms locally.
Grants are often federal or federal flow-through dollars.
Counties have limited or no knowledge of the requirements of these circulars. Many grants require matching funds. Counties have limited knowledge of the procedures to document a match for audit purposes and in some cases have limited dollars to use as match. Administered by Iowa State University Incentives 1. Award application assistance is available from the Extension Finance Office.