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Rule 5139-67-01 | Definitions.
Effective:
February 1, 2019
For the purpose of implementing Chapter 5139-67 of
the Administrative Code, the following terms have the following
definitions: (A) "Activity purpose
categories" means the categories established by the department from which
programs and services are developed and data reported. (B) "Administrative costs" means those costs related to
the overall administration of the grant. (C) "Base allocation" means the amount of state subsidy
grant (youth services grant) funds a county will be eligible to receive, based
on the formula found in section 5139.34 of the Revised Code. (D) "Capital construction projects" means the
acquisition, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, remodeling,
renovation, enlargement or improvement of capital facilities as defined in
section 154.01 of the Revised Code. (E) "Chargeable bed days" means the number of bed days
in an institution or community corrections facility for which reductions are
made in the computation of the court's variable allocation; these do not
include bed days which fall under the definition of public safety beds in
section 5139.01 of the Revised Code; these do include the first five days of a
youth's absence from an institution of the department or a community
corrections facility. (F) "Commitment" means the transfer of the physical and
legal custody of a youth who is at least ten years of age but less than
eighteen years of age from the court to the department for having committed an
act that, if committed by an adult, would be a felony. (G) "Community corrections facility" means a state
funded facility operated for the sole purpose of providing treatment and
rehabilitation to juvenile felony delinquents in lieu of a commitment to the
department, as defined in section 5139.36 of the Revised Code. (H) "Department" means the Ohio department of youth
services. (I) "Fair market value" means the cost of equipment,
property, or services which would be paid by a prudent buyer in a given
community. Prudence is based on comparison shopping and selection. Payment
rates should conform closely to the going rate in the community for a given
service. (J) "Felony delinquent" means any child who is
adjudicated a delinquent for having committed an act that, if committed by an
adult, would be a felony. This includes any adult who is between the ages of
eighteen and twenty-one and who is in the legal custody of the department for
having committed an act as a Juvenile that, if committed by an adult, would be
a felony. (K) "Felony delinquent care and custody fund (FDCC)"
means the fund into which "Reclaim Ohio" (variable allocation) and
youth services grant funds (base allocation) are deposited and from which they
are disbursed. (L) "Fiscal agent" means the county fiscal
representative responsible for oversight of department grant
funds. (M) "Fiscal year" means the state fiscal year period of
July first through June thirtieth. (N) "Funding application" means a document completed by
a couty/juvenile court which reflects projected expenditures according to the
established program categories in standard budget categories and is used to
allocate and disburse funds under sections 5139.34 and 5139.43 of the Revised
Code. (O) "Grant" means funds disbursed to the counties in
accordance with sections 5139.34 and 5139.43 of the Revised Code. (P) "Indirect cost" means a fixed charge by the county
for handling the grant and providing payroll and other related
services; (Q) "Institution" means a state facility created by the
general assembly that is under the management and control of the department or
a private facility with which the department has contracted for the
institutional care and custody of felony delinquents, except for youth placed
in accordance with section 5139.38 of the Revised Code. (R) "Minority youth" means any youth that is not
caucasian. (S) "Program amendment" means a programmatic or
budgetary change in a program. (T) "Public safety beds" means a county's variable
allocation is not adversely affected by bed days for any youth who are
committed for a category I or II offense (aggravated murder, attempted
aggravated murder, murder, attempted murder, kidnapping, rape, voluntary
manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter (F1), and aggravated arson) as defined
in sections 2151.26 and 5139.01 of the Revised Code with the exception of
aggravated burglary and aggravated robbery; felony delinquents who are subject
to and serving a three year period of commitment pursuant to divisions (A) and
(B) of section 2152.17 of the Revised Code for an act other than a violation of
section 2911.11 of the Revised Code that would be a category I or II offense;
felony delinquents committed to the department by the juvenile court of a
county that has had one-tenth of one per cent or less of the statewide
adjudications for felony delinquents as averaged for the past ten fiscal years
for which data is available and who are in the custody of an institution or a
community corrections facility; youth adjudicated and recommitted for the
commission of an offense committed while in a department institution; youth
serving disciplinary time as defined in section 5139.01 of the Revised Code; or
youth who have violated the terms and conditions of their supervised release,
have had that release revoked, and are serving time beyond the initial thirty
day period of institutionalization as defined in section 5139.01 of the Revised
Code. (U) "Recommitment" means the commitment for a new
period of incarceration in an institution for a youth who is already in the
legal custody of the department. (V) "Revocation" means the legal process through which
a juvenile court returns a youth, who has violated the post-release terms and
conditions, to the department for institutionalization pursuant to the
applicable divisions of section 5139.52 of the Revised Code. (W) "Supplanting" means using grant funds to take the
place of county money to fund the juvenile court's budget or related
programs. Funds must be used to increase or enhance services to youth, and may
not be used to pay for services which are already provided with county funds.
Local funds for these services may not be decreased as a result of these grant
funds. (X) "Variable allocation" means the "Reclaim
Ohio" allocation.
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Rule 5139-67-02 | Responsibilities of the department.
Effective:
February 17, 2006
In administering the program, the department shall do all of the following: (A) Establish procedures and time frames for submitting grant agreement and funding applications and other documents as required by this grant; (B) Determine each juvenile court's base and variable allocations and notify each juvenile court of its allocations; (C) Review and approve each grant agreement and funding application based on compliance with the Administrative Code and the Revised Code; (D) Provide technical assistance and training to the juvenile courts relative to all rules and procedures of the grant; and assist in planning, program development, implementation and evaluation of this grant; (E) Disburse the base allocation to the counties in accordance with the requirements of section 5139.34 of the Revised Code, if all required reports have been received; (F) Disburse the variable funds to the counties in accordance with section 5139.43 of the Revised Code if all required reports have been received; (G) Monitor the court's grant funded programs for compliance.
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Rule 5139-67-03 | Responsibilities of the county.
Grant funds received by the county: (A) Shall not be commingled with any other funds; (B) Shall be deposited in the felony delinquent care and custody fund; (C) May be used to fund capital construction projects only in an amount that does not exceed fifteen per cent of the base allocation amount for the current fiscal year; (D) Shall be disbursed for use by the juvenile courts as follows: (1) For use in the provision of programs and services for delinquent, unruly and juvenile traffic offenders; (2) For use in prevention, early intervention, diversion, treatment and rehabilitation programs that are provided for alleged or adjudicated unruly or delinquent children or children at risk of becoming unruly and delinquent children, and juvenile traffic offenders. (E) Shall not revert to the county general fund at the end of any fiscal year; (F) Shall carry over from the end of any fiscal year to the next fiscal year in the felony delinquent care and custody fund; (G) Shall be in addition to, and not be used to reduce, any usual annual increase in country funding that the juvenile court is eligible to receive or the current level of county funding of the juvenile court and of any programs or services for delinquent children, unruly children, juvenile traffic offenders or non-adjudicated youth supported by county moneys; (H) Shall be in addition to, and not be used to supplant, county funds.
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Rule 5139-67-04 | Responsibilities of the juvenile court.
Effective:
October 16, 2017
The juvenile court shall: (A) Submit a signed grant agreement and
funding application by a date determined by the department; (B) Submit financial expenditure reports,
other fiscal reports, program reports, statistical reports, and other
information on forms and according to the time frame established by the
department; (C) Deposit grant funds into the felony
delinquent care and custody fund; (D) Provide treatment and rehabilitation
programs and services for adjudicated felony delinquents that are alternatives
to commitments to the department; (E) Provide early intervention, treatment
and rehabilitation programs for youth adjudicated delinquent, unruly, and
juvenile traffic offenders; (F) Provide out of home placement of
youth only in detention centers, community rehabilitation centers, or community
corrections facilities approved by the department pursuant to standards adopted
by the department; licensed by an authorized state agency; or accredited by a
national organization, such as the American correctional association, and
recognized by the department; (G) Develop effective programs for youth
which preserve their rights and dignity. Program activities must be safe,
productive, humane, and adequately supervised; (H) Monitor and evaluate the
effectiveness of all programs funded through the grant; (I) Maintain records as needed to allow
the department to conduct program monitoring and evaluation and fiscal
audits; (J) Participate in any program and fiscal
monitoring and evaluation conducted by or on behalf of the
department; (K) Be required to have on file for
auditing purposes any written agreements with contractors or other service
agreements; (L) Refer to activity purpose categories
as defined by the department when developing all programs; (M) Ensure equal access of minority youth
to the programs funded through this grant; (N) If the juvenile court fails to submit
the required funding application and grant agreement, fiscal reports,
statistical reports or other required reports, the department shall not make
base or variable allocation payments to the county until the information is
received; (O) In the event that a variable
allocation payment is withheld under the conditions of paragraph (N) of this
rule or section 5139.43 of the Revised Code, and the juvenile court does not
comply with the conditions of paragraph (N) of this rule or section 5139.43 of
the Revised Code within one hundred eighty days of the due date established by
the department, the payment shall not be made to the county; (P) Not use grant funds to support
programs or services that do not comply with the core requirements of the
federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 2002, 42 U.S.C.
5633; (Q) Not use grant funds to support
programs or services that research has shown to be ineffective; (R) Not use grant funds to support
programs or services, such as sex offender programs, that do not meet
applicable standards as established in the Administrative Code.
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Rule 5139-67-05 | Fiscal restrictions and requirements.
Effective:
October 16, 2017
(A) All expenditures must be directly
related to approved programs and must be in accordance with the approved
funding application; (B) All obligations must be incurred
within the grant period and liquidated by September thirtieth of the following
state fiscal year, only excepting unemployment and worker's compensation
expenses, which are recognized in the year that they are paid; (C) If any cash balance remains at the
end of the fiscal year, it shall be carried over into the next fiscal year
within the felony delinquent care and custody fund and shall not be reverted to
the county's general fund; (D) All purchases are subject to county purchasing policies and
procedures, except that purchases of direct service for youth do not have to be
competitively bid pursuant to section 121.37 of the Revised Code. If no county
purchasing procedures exist, state purchasing procedures shall be
followed; (E) Cost of equipment, property, services or any other budgeted
items must be at fair market value, or that which would be paid by a prudent
buyer in a given community. Prudence is based on comparison shopping or
selection. Payment rates should conform closely to the going rate in the
community for a given service; (F) Should a county employee be employed and paid by the subsidy
grant in addition to his/her full time job, the work must be performed on the
employee's own time outside his/her full time job and compensation must be
reasonable and consistent with fair market value. Hours worked for both jobs
must be clearly documented; (G) Any overtime premiums paid to court employees must be
prorated among the various activities of the employee and not charged
exclusively to grant funds unless the employee works full time on the grant.
Overtime rates can be paid only if, and in proportion to the time, the employee
worked on the grant during the relevant time period; (H) Funds provided shall be in addition to, and shall not be used
to supplant, existing county funding or any usual annual increase in county
funding of the juvenile court or any program or service for delinquent
children, unruly children, juvenile traffic offenders or non-adjudicated youth
funded by the county; (I) The department shall suspend funding to a subsidy grant
funded program if it finds failure to comply with the administrative rules
promulgated by the department; (J) Administrative costs are limited to those essential to the
management of the grant and should be reflected in the "grant
administration narrative". Indirect costs are unallowable within the
grant; (K) All costs incurred in fund-raising activities are unallowable
within the grant; (L) All costs for awards and social functions for staff are
unallowable within the grant; (M) Contributions and donations are unallowable within the
grant; (N) All costs related to licensing, professional fees, or dues
for personnel, unless required by the job, are unallowable within the
grant; (O) College tuition reimbursement for employees is unallowable
within the grant; (P) All costs for staff amusement, social activities, and
incidental costs relating thereto, such as meals, beverages, lodging, rentals,
transportation and gratuities are unallowable within the grant; (Q) Reimbursement for travel expenses for training and the costs
of training are limited to that related to court services to youth. Records for
travel and training expenses which clearly identify the trainees, locations of
travel, and breakdown of expenses shall be maintained; (R) Capital construction projects are not allowable except as
noted under section 5139.34 of the Revised Code; (S) Checking accounts are a non-allowable expense with grant
funds in accordance with state auditor sections 307.55 and 319.16 of the
Revised Code; (T) If a court receives a reimbursement from an outside entity
for an expense for which costs were shared, the reimbursed funds shall be
deposited in to the felony delinquent care and custody fund with a clear audit
trail denoting the original expense; (U) Expenditures shall not exceed an approved program or an
approved line item by twenty per cent or five thousand dollars, whichever is
less. A funding application amendment must be submitted for the
department's prior approval for any expenses which would exceed these
limits or if the expenditure would alter the nature of the
program; (V) Up to one thousand dollars may be moved between or within
programs into existing line items of programs in a funding application. In such
cases, the juvenile court will submit amended budget forms to the department.
Transfers of more than one thousand dollars require that a funding application
amendment be submitted to the department for approval prior to the
transfer; (W) At the time of separation from employment, the department
will only recognize accrued vacation/sick leave expense liability in proportion
to the percentage of the employment period during which the employee was
employed in programs funded by the subsidy grant and paid from grant funds,
pursuant to statutory and county policy limits; (X) In the event that a county's application is not approved
by July first of the fiscal year, then the county is still approved for
allowable expenses and programs that were approved in the previous fiscal year;
however, no new programs and expenditures are allowable until the application
for the new fiscal year has been approved.
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Rule 5139-67-06 | Audit requirements and record retention.
Effective:
February 17, 2006
The department and the county shall adhere to the following: (A) Each county receiving grant funds shall in writing request the auditor of state, or an accounting firm authorized by the auditor of state, to perform additional procedures as part of the audit performed under section 117.11 of the Revised Code. The cost of performing the additional audit procedures shall be paid from the felony delinquent care and custody fund; (1) The scope of the additional procedures shall include legal compliance with section 5139.34 and division (C) of section 5139.43 of the Revised Code; (2) The scope of the additional procedures shall also include examination of revenues and expenses, cash balance, outstanding obligations and internal controls; (3) The county will provide a copy of applicable sections of the audit report upon request of the department; (B) It shall be the responsibility of the department to perform the following auditing functions: (1) Pre-audit the grant applications, program amendments, and requests for funds to ensure that the fiscal forms have been submitted and completed in accordance with fiscal guidelines of the department; (2) Interim exceptions. Within sixty days of the date of the filing of the reports under rule 5139-67-04 of the Administrative Code, the department shall, in writing, notify the administrative juvenile judge and the board of county commissioners of its intention to take interim exceptions to any of the actual and projected costs therein reported. The department shall include in this notification a sum certain by which it proposed to either increase or decrease the budget and/or expenditures incurred during the fiscal year covered by this report; (C) The department may perform an audit of the county felony delinquent care and custody fund; (D) When a county is selected for audit, per the department's audit schedule, the department will perform an audit of the fiscal records in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards, including such tests of the funding records and such auditing procedures considered necessary under the circumstances. The scope of the audit will encompass, but may not be limited to the following: (1) An examination of financial transactions, funds, and reports pertaining to the approved funding application; (2) An evaluation of compliance with the established rules; (E) Upon the completion of the audit examination, an audit report shall be issued which shall include a statement regarding: (1) The expenditures of funds, and; (2) Compliance with applicable regulations and the approved funding application, with approved revisions and amendments; (F) Audit and actual exceptions. Within one hundred twenty days of the date the department conducts an audit as required under paragraph (D) of this rule, the department shall, in writing, notify the administrative juvenile judge and board of county commissioners of its intention to take exception to any of the actual costs therein reported. The county fiscal agent shall be required to refund to the department from the county general revenue fund the amount of the exception to the reported costs within forty-five days of notification unless an appeal of the exception is filed; (G) Appeal of exceptions: if within forty-five days of the date of department notification to take exception under paragraph (A) or (B) of this rule, the administrative juvenile judge or the board of county commissioners does not file with the department a request for appeal, the action proposed in the department of youth services notification to take exception shall be final and binding. If an appeal is filed, the director of the department shall notify the court of the decision regarding the appeal within forty-five days. The actions proposed in the department's notification to take exception may be made final and binding before the expiration of the forty-five days within which the county may appeal if the administrative juvenile judge and board of county commissioners waive, in writing, the provisions of this paragraph. If the determination is made that the appeal of the exception is denied, the county fiscal agent shall be required to refund to the department from the county general revenue fund the amount of the exception to the reported costs within thirty days of notification of the appeal decision; (H) With reasonable advance notice, provide the department access to records, including any or all documents related to the felony delinquent care and custody fund; (I) Maintain accurate fund records which indicate all income and expenditures for the felony delinquent care and custody fund; (J) Keep the records current and legible; (K) Support all income and expenditures with documentation to provide a clear audit trail for every financial transaction; (L) Proper inventory schedules must be maintained for all equipment items purchased with grant funds. Inventories must include the following information for all equipment: number, purchase price, date of acquisition, vendor, condition and location; (M) County-established guidelines will be used for the salvage of unusable, damaged, and/or unrepairable equipment taken out of the juvenile court or projects funded by the youth services grant. If no county guidelines exist, state guidelines shall be followed; (N) The administrative juvenile court judge and board of county commissioners must maintain all records related to this chapter until the department has accepted a final closing expenditures report for the last year for which the record documents or supports a cost or expenditure, or for three years, whichever is longer.
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Rule 5139-67-07 | Reconciliation.
Effective:
February 17, 2006
(A) If the juvenile court believes there are errors in the calculation of chargeable bed days, the juvenile court shall submit a bed day reconciliation form to the department's bureau of subsidies. No corrective adjustments can be made without this form being received; (B) If an error is found during the same fiscal year in which the error took place, the adjustment will be made in the current fiscal year's total of chargeable bed days; (C) If an error is found following the fiscal year in which the error took place and if the error is found prior to May of the following fiscal year, then the adjustment shall be made to the prior fiscal year's total of chargeable bed days.
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Rule 5139-67-08 | Internal control.
Effective:
October 25, 2002
It shall be the responsibility of the juvenile court to evaluate its systems of internal accounting and administrative controls on an ongoing basis to provide assurance that: (A) Resources are utilized efficiently, effectively and in compliance with applicable law; (B) Obligations and costs are in compliance with applicable law; (C) Funds, property and other assets and resources are safeguarded against waste, loss, unauthorized use and misappropriation; (D) Revenues, expenditures and transfers of assets, resources, or funds applicable to operations are properly recorded and accounted for to permit the preparation of accounts and reliable financial and statistical reports, and to maintain accountability over the state's resources.
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Rule 5139-67-09 | Responsibilities of the advisory committee.
Effective:
February 17, 2006
The "Reclaim advisory committee" shall: (A) Be comprised of the following members: (1) Two juvenile judges appointed by the Ohio association of juvenile court judges; (2) The director of the department of youth services, or his designee; (3) The director of the office of budget and management, or his designee; (4) A member of the senate committee dealing with finance or criminal justice issues, appointed by the president of the senate; (5) A member of the house of representatives committee dealing with finance or criminal justice, appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives; (6) A member of the board of county commissioners, appointed by the county commissioners association of Ohio; (7) Two juvenile court administrators, appointed by the Ohio association of juvenile court judges; (B) Meet at least once during each quarter of the calendar year, or more frequently at the call of the chairman, to conduct the business of the committee set forth in sections 5139.41 and 5139.44 of the Revised Code; (C) Advise the department of youth services, office of budget and management, and the general assembly on any changes that the committee believes should be made to the "Reclaim Ohio" program.
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Rule 5139-67-10 | Withholding and reallocation of funds.
(A) The maximum balance carry over at the end of each respective fiscal year in the felony delinquent care and custody fund in any county, from funds allocated to the county pursuant to sections 5139.34 and 5139.41 of the Revised Code in previous years, shall not exceed an amount to be calculated as provided in the formula set forth in section 5139.43 of the Revised Code, unless that county has applied by the due date established by the department for, and been granted, an exemption by the department after considering the following factors, supported by a written plan to bring the court into compliance with this rule on forms and according to the time frame established by the department: (1) Changes in the number of charged bed days; (2) Fluctuation in moneys allocated by the department; (3) Fluctuation in moneys expended by the county; (4) Fluctuation in community resources, grant match funds and county funding levels; (5) Interruptions in programming; (6) Program start-up; (7) Use of funds to support initiatives of the department, such as re-entry services for youth on parole, cognitive-behavioral therapy centers or initiatives to address disproportionate minority contact; (8) Extraordinary circumstances that the juvenile court could not have anticipated; (B) Any moneys exceeding the maximum balance carry over shall be withheld from future payments, unless an exemption has been granted, and reallocated by the department as approved by the director in consultation with the reclaim advisory committee; (C) If a payment is made to a county juvenile court and it is later determined through fiscal reports submitted by the county to the department that the payment should have been withheld, the department shall notify the court in writing and the county shall refund, within thirty days of notification, the amount that should have been withheld.
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