The following is a summary of the comments received from the grantee community in the survey conducted by the CFO Council Grant Management Committee. The grantee community overwhelmingly endorses the recommendations made in the survey. There is strong concern that the implementation time should be faster.
Suggestion is a one to three year timeframe rather than the originally proposed five years.
There was no support for drawing cash by grant rather than the pooling method. Grantees would prefer a standard method of requesting cash and a standard method to report on expenditures to federal agencies. Grantees feel a common front end demonstrates the government s commitment to simplify the interface between the grantee community and the federal government. It is important to provide a confirmation number for each approved request so those requests can be tracked. The moratorium on new proprietary systems should be implemented immediately.