2008-061 Health Dept - Consolidated Agreement with NC Dept of Health & Human Services

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consoitaatod Agreement - Final Page 9 of 19 have been approved and certified. The "Certification" verifies that the total State and Federal expenditures reported aze valid for the pertinent month's actual expenditures. Local expenditures aze part of the Expenditure Report, but aze not included in the amount verified in the "Certification." Local appropriations must be reported monthly along with the State and Federal expenditures. b. Departments shall keep_expenditure reporting current and submit their certification of expenditures per the published DHHS Controller's Office Schedule. Funding is based on an Allocation Method, not a Contract Method, and counties receive reimbursement for services provided during one month in the following month. Therefore, the last service month to be paid in the SFY will be May services which are reported and paid in June. A department's June, 2009 expenditure report will be paid in July, 2009 and will be paid from a department's funding allocation for SFY 2009-10. Therefore a department will need to submit all requests for adjustments, corrections, or amendments to expenditure reports for fiscal year OS-09, with the May, 2009 expenditure report. c. Expenditures of federal funds must be reported according to the funding period for a grant. Care must be taken to be attentive to the service month/payment months for each grant as well as the ending settlement date for a grant. (For example, a grant which ends November 30 will have 6 servicelpayment months charged against it: 1) June 2009 service month/paid in July; 2) July service monthlpaid in August; 3) August service month/paid in September; 4) September service month/paid in October; 5) October service month/ paid in November; and 6) November service month/paid either in December, or before the ending date of that grant's settlement period. In this example the remaining 6 serviceJpayment months will be December service month/paid in January through May service month/paid in June, 2009.) For each Grant, the budgetary estimate, funding authorization and agreement addendum will have servicelpayment month dates listed --- - - - - d. The Deparlmet~'shall submit the final LHD Expenditure Report (Electroiuc, via the Aid=to-Counties Website)-for all programs to the DHHS Controller's Office according to the schedule published annually in November or December for the next Calendar Year by the DHHS Controller's Office. The May Services/Paid in June will be the final report period paid from the SFY. Services provided in June and reported in July will be paid out of the next SFY. . e. The Department shall have the opportunity to submit amended expenditure reports as soon as the error is discovered. A Department Should Not Wait To Submit All Adjustments With The Invoice Submitted To The Controller's Office At The End Of May As That Will Not Allow Sufficient Time For Verification Of The Adjustments Before The Last Payment In The State Fiscal Yeaz. 1) In accordance with item 4.c, above, each department must be mindful to keep current on reporting adjustments against federal funds to ensure such adjustment is received in time to be paid within the grant period for that grant. 2) The Department shall review their prior reimbursement claims against payments monthly. 3}- ~kmended reports-mu~t~e subffii~tt~ no "later--man theme reporting tie a tamer the grant period ends to . order to be paid. (Example: if the grant period ends 9!30/09, the amended report must be received by the Controller's Office no later than the 2nd reporting date after that - i.e., November's reporting date.) 4) The only adjustments, if any, that should be submitted with the May service expenditure report submitted in 3une would be any missed on the prior month's claim. If a department waits until the May service month expenditure report submission to report adjustments, the DHHS Controller's Offtce cannot guazantee those adjustments can be verified in time for the June payment.