Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 38, September 20, 2024
a) To be
eligible for a grant under this Part, a recipient must be a residential
services provider with which the Department contracts for residential services
[20 ILCS
530/15] .
b) All grant requests shall be submitted, in
writing, to the Department's Deputy Director of Budget and Finance, and must be
received by the Department during March 1 through March 31 of the current State
fiscal year in order to be considered for the subsequent fiscal year. Requests
shall be mailed to:
Department of Children and Family Services
Division of Budget and Finance
Attn: Residential Service Construction Grant Committee
406 East Monroe, Station 440
Springfield, Illinois 62701
c) To be considered, a request shall include
at least the following information:
1) A
certified audit report for the provider's most recent (prior) fiscal
year;
2) A clear, concise statement
explaining and justifying the request;
3) A detailed statement of financial,
statistical and related program information in support of the
request;
4) Description of the
expected client benefits and outcomes;
5) Data identifying the individual cost of
each item for which the grant is being sought, and a cost schedule for any
viable options that could be included or excluded from an award;
6) A detailed explanation of why the costs
cannot be funded within the agency's current financing;
7) The number of Department clients that will
be served if the grant is awarded; and
8) Certification, under penalty of perjury,
by the chief executive officer and the financial officer of the provider that
the application and all the information reports, schedules, budgets, and
records submitted are true, correct and accurate.
d) Review Process
1) Within 30 days after receipt of a request,
designated staff of the Department's Division of Budget and Finance shall
acknowledge, in writing, that the request has been received and forward the
request to the chairperson of the Residential Service Construction Grant
Committee.
2) The committee shall
include representatives of the Department and may include, by invitation of the
Director, representatives of the provider community. When providers serve on
the committee, they must be able to accept the current criteria established
pursuant to Section
363.30(b)
and serve with objectivity. Once a grant request is submitted, no member of the
committee can be approached by the requesting agency or its representatives to
discuss the proposal in any way. No committee member may discuss the individual
requests from agencies outside the committee process.
3) The committee shall review each request
for adequacy of documentation, appropriateness of the request, and the agency's
fiscal stability, and shall consider the requesting agency's performance
history for the current and preceding two fiscal years.
4) The committee shall assess each request in
relation to the Department's resource allocation management plan, and shall
also consider fiscal efficiency and the best use of resources for the greatest
number of Department clients.
5) A
request submitted by March 31 of the current State fiscal year shall be
reviewed by the committee within 90 days after that date.
e) On or before June 30 of the current State
fiscal year, the Department shall advise each grant applicant, in writing,
whether the request has been approved or denied for the upcoming fiscal year.
This notification timeframe is subject to a signed budget. All decisions are
considered final and are not subject to appeal.
