THECB - TWD Grants Administration Information

TWD Grants Administration Information

The following lists provides information regarding the administration of Technology Workforce Development grants.

Last Update on September 11, 2008.

1. No overhead (indirect cost recovery) may be charged to these funds.
2. Project leaders may include fringe benefits in their budget, because state funds did not originate from general revenue.
3. Please review your budget to ensure that your project's expenditures are in line with your CB-approved budget. If you see the need to change a strategy or your budget, please file a strategy and/or budget change request and forward to Reinold Cornelius.
4. Funds are distributed through the Comptroller’s office through direct deposit, or through warrant if so required.
5. Please note that all funds received through the Comptroller's account are State appropriated funds and must not be expended on food or drink, except if approved on a case-by-case basis for a purpose directly related to the execution of the grant. Approval follows guidelines given by the Texas Uniform Grants Management System (UGMS) and the Texas Workforce Commission's Financial Manual for Grants and Contracts (FMGC). Please refer to sections 8.3.4, 8.3.21, and 8.3.38 of FMGC. Meal costs must be necessary and reasonable, for example:
  - The food service is undividedly tied to the room service at a dormitory.
  - The program activities continue during customary meal periods.
  - Charging for food service would prohibit students from participating because of lack of own income or because of the students' economic disadvantaged background.
  - Other food sources, such as food courts, are not accessible in a timely fashion for uninterrupted continuation of activities.
  - Alcoholic beverages are unallowable.
1. TETC-TYT (TWD 2006) budgets are funded completely with Department of Labor funds.
  (Fund distribution originated from PCA 27955 under RTI 827955.)
2. The grant period for Phase I of TWD 2006 grants (TETC-TYT) nominally started March 15, 2006. The grants started August 1, 2006 and ended June 30, 2007, as extended through contract amendment between Texas Workforce Commission and Coordinating Board agreed upon November 10, 2006 and put into effect March 7, 2007.
  All expenditures of Phase I funds must be within the March 15, 2006 to June 30, 2007 timeframe.
  The Phase I funds derive from five different sources with CFDA numbers (from the Departent of Labor through the Texas Workforce Commission):
  1. CFDA 17.258, Federal FY 05: 31.85 percent
  2. CFDA 17.258, Federal FY 06: 23.28 percent
  3. CFDA 17.259, Federal FY 05: 6.04 percent
  4. CFDA 17.260, Federal FY 05: 11.24 percent
  5. CFDA 17.260, Federal FY 06: 27.60 percent
  Note: The State pooled a portion of its allotted federal funds for statewide activity supporting services to youth, adults, and dislocated workers. According to Federal Regulation 20 CFR § 667.130 for the Workforce Investment Act, the percentages cited above apply to all activities funded from statewide dollars for this program year, regardless of the individual project activity at a grantee institution.
  Reporting:
  1. The federal reporting requirements for the congressionally directed grant are rolled into the TWD annual report.
  2. Please report expenditures charged to the federal part of a project's budget Reinold Cornelius, using the TETC-TYT expenditures draw-down form (MS Excel).
3. The grant period for Phase II of TWD 2006 grants (TETC-TYT) started July 1, 2007 and ended August 31, 2008.
  Condition for continuation into Phase II of any given grant was the demonstration of progress in achieving Phase I goals through the 2007 annual report. The Coordinating Board posted the format for the annual report on its website by January 31, 2007 and reports were due March 5, 2007.
  All expenditures of Phase II funds must be within the July 1, 2007 to August 31, 2008 timeframe.
  The Phase II funds derive from three different sources with CFDA numbers (from the Departent of Labor through the Texas Workforce Commission):
  1. CFDA 17.258, Federal FY 07: 29.71 percent
  2. CFDA 17.259, Federal FY 07: 31.11 32.11 percent
  3. CFDA 17.260, Federal FY 07: 38.18 percent
  Note: The State pooled a portion of its allotted federal funds for statewide activity supporting services to youth, adults, and dislocated workers. According to Federal Regulation 20 CFR § 667.130 for the Workforce Investment Act, the percentages cited above apply to all activities funded from statewide dollars for this program year, regardless of the individual project activity at a grantee institution.
  Reporting:
  1. All projects will expend funds according to a three-month expenditure time-table established prior to the onset of the grant period.
  2. Project Leaders needed to establish and submit the expenditure time-table (MS Excel) by June 4, 2007 to Reinold Cornelius.
  3. Please report expenditures charged to the federal part of a project's budget Reinold Cornelius, using the TETC-TYT expenditures draw-down form (MS Excel).
  4. Project leaders need to report Activities and Performance Reports, besides the TWD annual reports, according to the TWC-CB Interagency Cooperation Agreement.
4. On October 10, 2007 the Coordinating Board made supplemental awards to five projects active under TETC-TYT Phase II. All expenditures for the supplemental awards must be within the October 1, 2007 to November 30, 2007 timeframe.
  1. Separate expenditure reports must be submitted by December 14, 2007
  2. The October supplemental awards are part of the Phase II funding and the CFDA apportionment follows the list for Phase II given under bullet B.3 ~~funded with dollars unexpended during the TETC-TYT Phase I grant period and accordingly the CFDA apportionment follows the list for Phase I given under bullet B.2~~.
1. TWD budgets approved by the Coordinating Board for TWD 2005 grants are valid for all funds, from state, industry, and federal sources combined. Federal funds for these grants come from the Department of Education as a congressionally directed grant, "ED05."
2. Grant period for TWD 2005 grants started May 1, 2005 and ended August 31, 2008, as extended by the TWD Grants Program Advisory Committee on January 11, 2006.
  However, the grant period for the funds from the federal congressionally directed grant, as part of the overall TWD grant, started on September 14, 2005 and ended August 31, 2007, according to a one-year time-extension for budget and performance granted by the Department of Education on December 26, 2006. All expenditures of federal funds must be within the September 14, 2005 to August 31, 2007 timeframe.
3. Please return unspent TWD 2005 funds from State match dollars (originated from PCA 27919, AY07 or prior) with RTI 727919 (Recurring Transaction Indicator), and please return TWD funds from industry donation dollars (originated from PCA 27920, AY07 or prior) with RTI 727920.
1. TWD budgets approved by the Coordinating Board for TWD 2003 grants are valid for all funds, from state, industry, and federal sources combined. Federal funds for these grants come from the Department of Education as a congressionally directed grant, "ED04."
2. Grant period for TWD 2003 grants started January 1, 2004 and ended August 31, 2007, as extended by the TWD Grants Program Advisory Committee on January 11, 2006.
  However, the grant period for the funds from the federal congressionally directed grant, as part of the overall TWD grant, started on September 1, 2004 and ended August 31, 2006, according to a one-year time-extension for budget and performance granted by the Department of Education on June 30, 2005. All expenditures of federal funds must be within the September 1, 2004 to August 31, 2006 timeframe.
3. Please return unspent TWD 2003 funds from State match dollars (originated from PCA 27919, AY06 or prior) with RTI 627919 (Recurring Transaction Indicator), and please return TWD funds from industry donation dollars (originated from PCA 27920, AY06 or prior) with RTI 627920.
1. Budgets for TWD 2002 grants were written and approved at the 54 percent funding level and will be prorated to 100 percent, since full funding was achieved on October 4, 2004.
2. TWD budgets approved by the Coordinating Board for TWD 2002 grants are valid for all funds, from state, industry, and federal sources combined. Federal funds for these grants come from the Department of Education as a congressionally directed grant, "ED04."
3. Grant period for TWD 2002 grants nominally started January 1, 2002. The grants were announced April 1, 2002 and ended March 31, 2007, as extended by the TWD Grants Program Advisory Committee on June 2, 2004.
  However, the grant period for the funds from the federal congressionally directed grant, as part of the overall TWD grant, started on September 1, 2004 and ended August 31, 2006, according to a one-year time-extension for budget and performance granted by the Department of Education on June 30, 2005.
  All expenditures of federal funds must fall within the September 1, 2004 to August 31, 2006 timeframe.
4. Please return unspent TWD 2002 funds from State match dollars (originated from PCA 27919, AY06 or prior) with RTI 627919 (Recurring Transaction Indicator), and please return TWD funds from industry donation dollars (originated from PCA 27920, AY06 or prior) with RTI 627920.
1. For TWD 2002, 2003, and 2005:
  The CFDA number for both congressinally directed grants (through the Departent of Education) is 84.116Z. The first grant ("ED04" grant) contributes to TWD 2002 and TWD 2003 funding. The second grant ("ED05" grant) contributes to TWD 2005 funding.
  Restrictions are:
  1. Strategies involving post-secondary education only. However, e.g., strategies to recruit secondary students are acceptable as are strategies that provide a stipend to post-secondary students even when the work performed involves secondary students. (You may hire post-secondary students to perform workshops in high schools. The benefit here is in providing post-secondary students the means to stay in school much in the way scholarships are a retention tool.)
  2. The applicability of the Department of Education's General Education Provisions Act (GEPA), Section 427, regarding discrimination.
  If you have further questions, please contact Ms. Robin Graham-Moore, Program Coordinator for College Relations at The University of Texas at Austin at 512-471-2783.
  Reporting:
  1. The federal reporting requirements for the congressionally directed grant are rolled into the TWD annual report.
  2. Please report expenditures charged to the federal part of a project's budget Reinold Cornelius, using the federal expenditures draw-down form (MS Excel).
2. Federal fund distribution originated from PCA 27922.

General

TETC-Texas Youth in Technology Demonstration Project

TWD 2005

TWD 2003

TWD 2002

Federal Funding Source for TWD 2002, TWD 2003, and TWD 2005