00:21:23 Peter Spadafore: Hey Bob and Supts. 00:21:43 Ray Wilburn: Hey Pete 00:23:11 Liz Lentz: I just joined and maybe missed it, how can I get a hardcopy of the presentation? 00:23:24 Lisa Hansknecht: Happy Friday to all. Thanks for putting this on. 00:23:34 Kevin Walters, Michigan Department of Education: I always share with Bob so it can be posted for sharing 00:23:59 Scott Kemmer-Slater-GIRESD: Hi, Kevin. 00:24:17 Kevin Walters, Michigan Department of Education: Great to see you in the new role, Scott! 00:29:50 Peter Spadafore: Amen, Kevin! 00:32:43 Lillie Rapelje: Here is a link to Kevin's presentation on our website: https://www.msbo.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/fedfunds_mde_esser2-3_update.pdf 00:32:50 Liz Lentz: Bob can you put the link to the presentation in the chat? 00:34:09 Kris Vizina: IS THE CFDA # THE SAME FROM ESSER II AS IT IS FOR ESSER I 00:34:33 Amy Swantek: How long can amendments to ESSER II be made? We are planning for some positions for the 22/23 year, but of course the actual amounts are unknown at this time. 00:35:08 Connie Wright: My ESSER Formula is in Modifications Submitted status from a recent status change I implemented. Should I wait for that approval and then amend again for these new funds or request it returned prior to approval of that recent modification 00:35:42 Ray Wilburn: If you do not see ESSER I or II in MEGS+ is there another place to see them? 00:36:34 Ray Wilburn: I see them in CMS 00:36:48 Barb Wilson: Hi Kevin, I made modifications per your request to ESSER I and submitted. I still do not have approval status. What is your turnaround time? 00:36:59 Ray Wilburn: thank you! 00:37:29 Carol Laux-Carrollton Public Schools: If we are already in GFA, do we need to amend the application to submit our spending plan for the remaining funds that were just released? 00:37:32 Heath Kaplan: I see the 43% of ESSER II in CMS. Do I need to amend the MEGS ESSER II App to gain access to the 57%? 00:37:33 Amy Swantek: Ray - It's listed under Elementary & Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER Fund - Formula) 00:37:44 Sharon Raschke: Why was there a change to the ESSER PER PUPIL EQUALIZATION 11r4 in August State Aid? 00:37:44 Miranda Owsley: If you are using the quick search by year, they are in 2020 as that's when ESSER I came out. 00:39:33 Angela Rudolph: Can you talk about the latitude with allowable use #15? 00:39:41 Lillie Rapelje: Kevin's updated presentation will be posted after this meeting, thank you! 00:40:23 Terri: Good morning, 00:40:54 Terri: Will this presentation be recorded and slides available? 00:41:07 Robert Dwan: Yes, it will 00:41:27 Peter Spadafore: Drinks on me, Kevin, next time I see you. 00:41:43 Kevin Walters, Michigan Department of Education: Thanks! 00:41:58 Julie Omer, Owosso: Better make it a double, Peter :) 00:45:00 Julie Omer, Owosso: Is there a way to be proactive to let MDE know what the plan is if you haven't drawn down on the Equity funds rather than MDE having to reach out? 00:48:32 Kimberly Funnell: Do the expenditures within the tidings period need to have occurred before Sept 30,2021? 00:48:44 Roger Auwers: If there is a reallocation of unspent funds, any chance that ISD’s could get included in that even though we were excluded the first time around? 00:52:04 Jane Fernanders BFDI: When will we know what MDE's Tydings date will be? 00:53:47 Wes Seeley: I missed it. Where do we accept the Tydings period and submit our spending plan for that period? 00:57:39 Kim Worden: Can ESSER II funds be used for AED's? 00:57:51 Kevin Walters, Michigan Department of Education: Yes 00:58:50 Peter Spadafore: Sorry… 00:59:03 Curt Barnum: Can the LEA re-capture unspent allocations provided to Non-Public Schools from ESSER I for re-allocation in the LEA plan? 01:01:08 Sharon Raschke: Do we need to identify specific expenditures that are recorded as expensed to the Innovative Summer Programs? For stipends, now that we have actually paid the stipends, we did not pay as many people as we submitted on 7/23. Are their other costs we can include to expense the entire allocation we will receive? 01:01:52 Robert Dwan: No acceptance needed for Tydings, it's automatic. 01:03:54 Liz Lentz: What is the estimated time frame to get the 23b & 23c into MEGS given the delays? 01:04:04 Sammi Stevens: do we know when the applications for 23b will be available on MEGS+? 01:04:05 Julie Williams-Muz: Will there be another submission in GEMS for 23b? 01:04:32 Jill Olsen: To resubmit the 23b funding, will an email come when it is reopen in Gem/Mar? 01:05:14 Peter Spadafore: Shoutout to MDE, the Governor’s Office, Lawmakers, and the associations, all are working to get that approval from USED. 01:05:23 Sharon Raschke: Will we be required to provide a list of all students who participated in summer school to get a final student participation count to get our final allocation for summer school and innovative programs? 01:06:21 Rob Spagnuolo: Likelihood of approval related to 11t? This is huge for Districts getting limited ESSER III funds. 01:06:36 Margaret Johnston: I have missed a few of notifications of Kevin Walters’ and other update meetings - how do I get on the ListServ for these …? 01:07:29 Peter Spadafore: Rob - no idea on your question. Don’t spend it yet. 01:07:37 Mike Zopf: If USED approves MDE's application and an 11(t) Equalization payment is made, would it be state or federal funds? 01:07:57 Sharon Raschke: Will innovative state funding expenses need to be reclassified under a specific grant code? 01:08:02 Peter Spadafore: Mike - they are federal funds. That’s why USED is involved. It’s different from last year’s state equalization 01:08:58 Katrina Daiga: We were notified of innovative funds granted in August therefore didn't keep the innovation elements in our programming....what is the process to give these back to the state? 01:09:47 catherine: Can the stipends be pro-rated if they only worked 1-2 days of the summer school. Or does every one receive the full amount regardless how many hours they worked 01:09:48 Julie Reams - Finance Director: For the before/after school 23b(2c), when is the application open. We have never found it anywhere. 01:10:38 Robin Thomas: Will all of the ESSER grants stay in MEGS or are they going to migrate to NexSYS? 01:11:35 Peter Spadafore: Dr. Rice has been a strong advocate for us on the equalization use. 01:11:57 Jill Olsen: If you one of the 81 with an error in submissions', when is the email going to be released to the district? and how long do you have to correct errors? 01:13:05 Terese Knag: Sharon, 388 is the state code for innovative 01:14:29 Sharon Raschke: For stipends again. We said on 7/23 that we would have 250 teachers entitled to the $1000 stipend. Now that we are done, many did not complete their anticipated participation. So we are paying 200 teachers the $1000 not the 250 we thought. How will that deduct happen? 01:15:35 Johanna Mracna: When is the deadline for paying the 23c(4a) and 23c(4b) payment to employees? 01:15:46 Kris Vizina: So if we submitted for before-after school we would have received award notification? 01:16:05 Heath Kaplan: Do subs for 23b also qualify for the stipend? 01:16:28 Sharon Smith: I might have missed this so I apologize if I did. Can we go ahead and pay out the summer school teacher and support staff stipends or do we need to wait for 23b funds to be uploaded in MEGS? 01:17:26 Sharon Raschke: Can the payroll taxes (ie Fica) on the summer stipends be allocated to the summer school funding or innovative programs? 01:18:31 Kelly Stearns: IF a teacher "subbed" one day in summer school in someone else's summer school position, do they get the full stipend? 01:18:40 Sharon Raschke: Got it on stipends. Thank you. 01:18:46 Angie: Will we receive the full $1,000 Teacher pay or is there a possiblity that it may be prorated? 01:18:50 Sara DeVries: What if additional staff had to be called in to teach after the submission of numbers? 01:19:39 Laura Jacobs: What if we underestimated the number of staff that were needed for summer school? Are we able to stipend them and get a reimbursement? 01:20:44 Kim Pincheck: Can we please email Kevin with individual questions so we can get through the presentation? 01:20:58 Tamera Powers: When 23b awards are provided, will they be received in State Aid Status Payments (earliest October 20) or will we have to request the funds? 01:24:33 Christopher May (Michigan Department of Education): Reminders on award notifications and revenue/expenditure recognition: if no GAN by June 30th, do not record that revenue or record expenditures under that grant code in FY21 even if you intend to cover FY20/21 expenditures with those funds. Initial award dates on GANs can be used to determine recognition to the extent expenditures were incurred in FY21. Also on the 2d innovative funding, be sure to defer any of that revenue not spent in FY21. 01:25:16 Michelle Sine: Did you address spending deadline for II and III? Is if 2023? 01:28:51 Josh Smith: If we are 100% face-to-face instruction, we cannot "Support" and "Track", so does this mean we do not have to set aside 20% of our ESSER III funds, or that our allocation will be prorated down 20%? 01:29:25 Connie Wright: Does the expenditure designated as addressing learning loss have to address all 5 of these areas 01:29:33 Chris LaHaie: Just has to meet one of the five? 01:29:35 Chris LaHaie: Correct? 01:29:38 Kris Geeraerts: Are we required to address all 5 areas in the 20% set aside? 01:30:17 Chris LaHaie: Thanks for the clarification 01:30:45 Melissa Maki: Will there be a specific grant code to use to track the 20% expenditures allocated to the learning loss? 01:33:01 Christopher May (Michigan Department of Education): no separate grant code for the 20% learning loss as it's coming from the same funding "authority", it's just part of the requirements of that funding 01:33:28 Melissa Maki: Thanks, Chris. 01:33:45 Christopher May (Michigan Department of Education): I would encourage districts to use the fourth digit of the Grant Code or the "Other" coding dimension to track this internally to be sure they meet that 20% 01:33:57 Lisa Hansknecht: Do we have a large number of districts that have reductions overall for which they have to worry about this? Am I missing something? 01:35:27 Michelle Maya: For the must items #3. What is the time period this is applicable to? Following school year? Five years? 01:35:27 Miranda Owsley: What years are they comparing for the MOE? 01:36:05 Lisa Hansknecht: thx 01:36:20 Dr. Deanna Dobbins: For the equity piece, if we are adding staff this year are we required to continue to keep that staff always. 01:36:37 Michelle Maya: Thank you! 01:36:49 Jan Callis: Will LEAs be tested on both indicators - reductions in funding AND reductions in staff? Or can they meet MOEq standard my maintaining one or the other? 01:37:02 Terese Knag: "serve all students in each grade span in a single school" Does this mean k-12 all in one building or if we have 5 buildings but each grade level occurs at only one building would we be exempt? 01:37:45 Liz Lentz: if we aren't a high poverty district, we still have to denote some of our buildings as a high poverty school? 01:39:18 Sammi Stevens: can we get a copy of this updated presentation? 01:40:39 Robert Dwan: Yes, PPT, recording and chat will be available after MSBO edits and processes it. Possibly Monday. Listservs will be notified. Peter will receive access info. 01:41:03 Sammi Stevens: thanks bob! 01:45:20 Michelle Sine: Thank you for this great information!! We appreciate you and your team!! 01:45:55 Kris Geeraerts: Thank you. Lots of information. Much appreciated! 01:45:58 Sharon Raschke: Is that in MEGS+ under ESSER I 01:46:02 Jan Callis: by "application" do you mean budget? 01:46:51 dcastle: MEGS + and not the Nexsus system? 01:49:45 Kelly Stearns: where can we obtain a copy of the list ofspecific items? 01:49:53 Tina Kostiuk: What about the esser III equalization 11t related to bargaining? 01:50:07 Liz Lentz: It's been awhile since we've had one of these updates, it's much appreciated!!! 01:50:35 Brian Brutyn: How is the MDE template different than the LEA plan or are they 'one in the same?' 01:51:34 Beth Disbrow: Is the 23b funding going to be in MEGs? Under Esser III? 01:52:21 Sharon Smith: Thank you for this great information! 01:52:44 Christie Robinson: Thank you! 01:52:49 Kris McLavy: Thank You Kevin, Bob & Chris - MUCH APPRECIATED!! 01:52:49 Leslie Acton: Thank you as always for these updates! 01:52:50 Jamie Cowan: Thank you Kevin, Chris, Bob and your teams! 01:52:50 Kim Worden: Thank you! 01:52:51 Gail Enders: Thank you Kevin!! 01:52:52 rebeccadrake: Thank you for all this great information! 01:52:52 Sean Pear: Thank you for your help Kevin!! 01:52:54 Dr. Lorilyn Coggins: It is amazing how collaborative the State and MSBO have continued to be with all our schools! 01:52:57 Terri: Thank you Kevin!! 01:52:57 Lynn VanKampen: Kevin and Chris are both awesome!! Thank you 01:52:57 Katrina Daiga: thanks 01:52:58 Shona Vennevy: Thank you 01:52:59 Stephen Grubaugh - Bullock Creek Schools: Thanks 01:53:05 marieamiller: Thanks for the updates!! 01:53:15 Stephanie O'Connor: Thank you! 01:53:30 Vickie Buckner: Thank you!! 01:53:35 Devin Kling: Thanks, Kevin! 01:53:46 Julie Williams-Muz: Thanks for your dedication!! 01:54:06 Sarah Campbell: Thanks to you and your team! 01:54:08 Dr. Lorilyn Coggins: Super Kevin! 01:54:32 Lori.Mayo: Thank you so much!!! 01:54:32 Jill Minnick: Thanks so much Kevin and Chris!! 01:54:36 Anthony Bertucci: Thanks Kevin! 01:54:38 Sara Hegel: THANK YOU KEVIN, YOU ARE A ROCK STAR!! 01:54:41 April Rogers - Southfield Public Schools: This was absolutely great! Thank you for the wealth of information 01:54:53 Tina Kostiuk: You are both awesome!!!! 01:54:53 Krista Hendrix: Thank you to everyone at MDE and MSBO! 01:55:01 Lisa Hansknecht: Thanks Kevin