Vote: approved

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19. SUPERIOR COURT ADMINISTRATION GRANTS FOR FY 2011 Accept the FY 2011 grants and associated revenue for the Superior Court Administration of the Judicial Branch in the amount of $2,324,480. The indirect cost rate as of July 2010 is 46.4% as approved by the Department of Finance. Some of the grants for FY 2011 do not allow indirect cost recovery as reflected in the attached funding agreements. The status of indirect costs for each grant is noted on the attached summary sheets. The amounts of indirect costs on eligible expenditures are estimated to be $943,276 with $651,719 unrecoverable and $291,557 recoverable. Of recoverable grants, one grant from the Office of the Governor allows for cost recovery of a maximum of 10% or $8,417; one other grant from the Arizona Department of Economic Security allows for full cost recovery of 46.4% for only the salary and benefit amounts for a total of $283,140. The other grants for FY 2011 do not allow for indirect cost recovery, as reflected in the funding agreements. In addition, approve an increase to the FY 2011 Superior Court (800) Superior Court Grants Fund (238) Operating (0000) revenue and expenditure appropriation in the amount of $178,832. This increase is necessary because actual grant funding to be received is more than anticipated and budgeted. Grant revenues are not local revenues for the purpose of the constitutional expenditure limitation and, therefore, expenditures of these revenues are not prohibited by the budget law. This budget adjustment does not alter the budget constraining the expenditures of local revenues duly adopted by the Board pursuant to A.R.S. § 42-17105. Administrative Order #95-50, approved by Presiding Judge Robert D. Myers on June 29, 1995, adopted for the Judicial Branch a policy for the administration of grant funding. The policy is identical in form and substance to policy A2505 "Policy for Administering Grants" and all revisions adopted by the Board of Supervisors for all County departments. The policy states that the Presiding Judge will make a presentation to the Board of Supervisors on an annual basis of the Judicial Branch's grants. A summary of each grant has been prepared in accordance with the provisions of the policy. (C-80-11-011-2-00)