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Kurt S. BrowningSecretary of State
Dr. Gisela Salas
Director, Division of Elections
Presented by Maria Matthews and Gary J. Holland, Office of General Counsel, Department of State
Telephone: 850-245-6536June 23, 2011
Florida Department of State
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•Getting and Spending $•Accounting•Allowable/Non-allowable Expenses 3
HAVA funds pass-through Department of State to the Supervisor of Elections for financial assistance with federal election activities
Acceptance of funds – Return executed Memorandum of Agreement (MOA)
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Comply with MOA termsObtain pre-approval of expenses
plan—Must include samples of all voter education materials, printed documents and transcripts of audio and video recordings or clips
Execute 15% county match certificate and certificate of debarment & suspension
Submit financial reports – Annual and Remaining Balances (aka “June 30th report) 5
Spend funds when you need or want (Unspent funds roll over from FY (fiscal year) to FY)
Exhaust oldest funds first For example, spend all of your FY 2005-06 Poll
Worker Training Funds (HAVA Funds, County Matching Funds and Interest) before you spend your FY 2006-07 Poll Worker Training Funds
Use funds for originally intended purpose and per pre-approved plan Any change/deviation from originally approved plan
MUST be pre-approved before you can spend. Newer MOAs limit scope of expenditures
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Retain funds in an interest-bearing account (You keep interest, and it should be spent for the same purpose as the original funds were intended)
Track funds by breakout category – HAVA, County Matching, and Interest Earned and Spent.
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Mailing or publishing sample ballots Issuing voter information cardsAdvertising or publishing documents
such as the voter guides (Voter education items must include information on voting procedures, voting rights, or voting technology. Contact information limited to Supervisor of Elections’ office– political candidate information IS NOT voter education per EAC)
Conducting voting system demos
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Paying training stipends to poll workersProviding training materials for poll
workers Maintaining online or web-based
absentee ballot request, ballot tracking, and precinct-finder system as it relates to use in federal elections and for the costs for upgrades, future license fees, and future maintenance fees for the MOVE Act and other UOCAVA expenditures.
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•Annual reports•Remaining balance reports
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Annual financial reports due December 31 of each calendar year;
Reports cover period of October 1 – September 30 of the preceding year, as long as any funds provided under each agreement remain;
Report only expenditures made during the designated period.
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Annual report must include:
1.Proof of County 15% match
2.Categories – Expense reporting by separate funding category
3.Description/detail – How funds spent
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THIS IS A REQUIREMENT FOR ALL COUNTY SOEsFailure to appropriate the matching
funds must be reported. If the Board fails to appropriate the
required matching funds, all funds received from the state for this grant during that state fiscal year will be required to be returned to the Department of State.
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Matching Funds Transfer from the General Fund
An appropriation statement from the Board of County Commissioners
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Committee meeting minutes approving the appropriation
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A bank account statement showing the deposit and/or deposit slip
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A bank account statement showing the deposit and/or deposit slip
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Annual report must include:
1.Proof of County 15% match
2.Categories – Expense reporting by separate funding category
3.Description/detail – How funds spent
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Report expenses by separate funding category
HAVA Funds County Matching Funds Interest Earned Interest Spent
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Expenditures listed must be consistent with previously approved plan or approved change or deviation from originally approved plan for federal election activities
If not approved, it constitutes a non-allowable expense--expense will be removed or classified as “reimbursable”
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Annual report must include:
1.Proof of County 15% match
2.Categories – Expense reporting by separate funding category
3.Description/detail – How funds spent
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Describe how you actually spent funds and what types of federal election activities you paid for with those funds.
Include itemized receipts or invoices in support of the expenditures listed on the report (receipts or invoices need to list how many individual items were produced or printed).
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Report required as of 2010 regarding the status of unspent HAVA funds as of June 30 of the reported year (forms for reporting sent in November).
Remaining balance report must reconcile with figures in the Annual HAVA Financial Report.
Must include tracking and reporting of interest by grant and fiscal year (interest should be spent along with the HAVA fund and county match)
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Report forms sent to SOEs in November
If you have completed reports for HAVA funds completely expended, you will not be sent any report forms for that fund For example, if a county spent all of their FY 2003-04
Voter Education funds and/or all of their FY 2005-06 Poll Worker Training Funds during a prior reporting period, reports for these grants and for these fiscal years will not be mailed to that county.
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Joyce Durbin(850) 245-6206
JADurbin@dos.state.fl.us
Althera Johnson(850) 245-6211
AJohnson@dos.state.fl.us
Mary Anne Allen(850) 245-6203
MAAllen@dos.state.fl.us35
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