Texas Administrative Code › Title 19 - EDUCATION › Part 9 - TEXAS INNOVATIVE ADULT CAREER EDUCATION GRANT PROGRAM ADMINISTRATOR › Chapter 400 - GRANT ADMINISTRATION › Section 400.5 - General Guidelines

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
(a) Funds awarded
				through the Adult Career Education (ACE) Grant Program are to be used as
				necessary to develop, support, or expand the workforce intermediary's normal
				programmatic operations, and at the same expense rates or charges allocated to
				other participants in the intermediary's normal program.
(b) Funds awarded through the ACE Grant
				Program shall be expended for authorized activities and may not be used for the
				purpose of funding political, lobby, or religious activities such as sectarian
				worship, instruction, or proselytization. This limitation, however, shall not
				be interpreted to prohibit Grantee from subcontracting for goods or services
				with any religious institution or entity.
(c) Applicants should be thorough in
				describing how grant funds will be administered and monitored.
(d) Grant awards may be awarded in
				installments as designated by the Grant Administrator.
(e) The Grant Administrator has complete
				discretion in determining whether all amounts will be awarded.
(f) Organizations must provide at least a 50%
				funding match, which may be obtained from any source available to the
				organization, including but not limited to in-kind contributions, community or
				foundation grants, individual contributions, federal or local governmental
				agency funds. The Grant Administrator may require organizations to demonstrate
				compliance with matching requirements to receive additional installments
				awarded under the grant. The minimum 50% funding match is specified in order to
				leverage state funds with funds from other sources obtained by workforce
				intermediary organizations.
(g)
				Indirect costs are assumed to be included in the normal programmatic costs and
				will not be provided separately. Such costs should be allocated at the same
				rate per participant as any other program participant. Variations may be
				considered overcharges upon program audit.
(h) Records must be maintained in an orderly
				manner to facilitate review and audit by the Grant Administrator's staff or its
				designee.
(i) Failure to achieve
				measures of success as described could result in early termination of the grant
				or affect future awards.
(j)
				Failure to sufficiently and accurately account for all grant expenditures and
				matching funds, or providing false or misleading information, will result in
				early termination of the grant or affect future awards.
(k) The Grant Administrator may request
				additional information at any time prior to awarding a grant in order to
				effectively evaluate any application.
(l) The Grant Administrator, or its designee,
				may audit the grant recipient's records at any time.
(m) Applications must be completed, including
				all attachments, and submitted by the deadline to be considered. All questions
				on the application must be completed. Supplemental materials may be submitted,
				but will not be accepted in lieu of responses to the individual questions on
				the application.
(n) In awarding
				grants under the Program, the Grant Administrator will take into consideration
				the recommendations of the Program Advisory Board.
(o) Applications must be submitted to the
				Grant Administrator on a form provided by the Grant Administrator.