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APL 266 (Incentive Funds for Ohio Option Counties for SFY 2002 and SFY 2003)
Administrative Procedure Letter No. 266
April 15, 2002
TO: Administrative Procedure Manual Holders County Departments of Job and Family Services' Directors
FROM: Thomas J. Hayes, Director
SUBJECT: Incentive Funds for Ohio Option Counties for SFY 2002 and SFY 2003

ODJFS will distribute the WIA Supplement (TANF carve out funds) in the amount of $35,109,178 each year for SFY 2002 and SFY 2003. These funds will be available to Ohio Option counties as incentives. Individual funds would be created in SFY 2002 and SFY 2003 with an overall ceiling established for each Ohio Option county each year. Utilization of these funds must follow TANF guidelines.

SFY 2002:Funds will be distributed each quarter by the Ohio Option counties expenditure percent to the Ohio Option statewide total.

Quarter 1:expenditure data for SFY 2001 (July 2000 June 2001)

Quarter 2:expenditure data for SFY 2001 (July 2000 June 2001)

Quarter 3:expenditure data for SFY 2001 (July 2000 June 2001 plus July 2001 September 2001)

Quarter 4:expenditure data for SFY 2001 (July 2000 June 2001 plus July 2001 September 2001 plus October 2001 December 2001)

Expenditure data includes expenditures to:

WIA Administration

WIA Adult

WIA Youth

WIA Dislocated Worker

JTPA Carryover

WIA/TANF

WIA Incentives

SFY 2003:A committee is to be established to explore incentives for SFY 2003 with representatives from ODJFS Fiscal, Bureau of WIA, Local Operations and ORAA, the Associations and County representation. The committee will address the following options:

1.Continuing incentives for expenditure WIA allocations

2.Customer Satisfaction in One Stops

3.Meet or exceed federal performance standards for the WIA grant

Distribution Methodology:ODJFS will establish a cap for each county for each fiscal year to ensure excessive funds are not available to any one county. Each fiscal year, the entire amount of available funds will be distributed to Ohio Option counties using the number of individuals under 200% poverty. This figure will act as the overall ceiling for the amount of funds a county could earn. Any funds not distributed in SFY 2002 should be programmed into the SFY 2003 calculation. All services must be rendered by June 30th and all bills to be paid by September 30th.

An APMTL with the finalized formulas and distributions will follow. The actual allocation of funds will not take place until the clearance process is finalized and will cover the entire SFY 2002 and SFY 2003 time period.

Please direct inquiries to your Fiscal Supervisor.