From: "Marty Cornell" <marty-carole@comcast.net>
Subject: RE: National Park Service Grant
Date: September 30, 2016 at 8:08:25 PM CDT
To: "'Richard Schaffhausen'" <dickanddonna2@comcast.net>

This is news to me, but it has happened before that the Service (usually Tom or Jennifer) applies for a grant on our behalf.  Our responsibility is to dole out the money and write reports.  The big example of this is the Houston Endowment grants for pre-land acquisition discovery.  Here we also are obligated to write the annual reports.  
 
We should for our records get;
∑        The grant application (was it from USFWS or from FOBWR?)
∑        Who is authorized to stipulate spending
∑        What documentation (invoices) are required
∑        Any match required by Friends (should be none) and if so is “in-kind” permitted.
∑        The acceptance letter
∑        The reporting protocol
∑        The details of expected reports, e.g. dates due, content expected.
 
Marty
 
From: Richard Schaffhausen [mailto:dickanddonna2@comcast.net]  Sent: Friday, September 30, 2016 7:50 PM To: 'Marty Cornell' <marty-carole@comcast.net> Subject: National Park Service Grant
 
I attended a meeting  Thurs. with Tom S and Johnny D on the Every Kid in the Park grant through, I believe, the National Park Service.  Much to my surprise I found out I am the person who has the honor and privilege of writing out the checks to the school districts or bus transportation companies that transport the students to the parks until the 117K is used up.  I understand the 117K is coming to the Friends.  Not sure who gave them our bank acct info. I will be talking to the folks to see what the grant reporting requirements entail next week.  I would like to spend some time with you after I know what is required on their end to see how we need to handle the bookkeeping on our end.  Dick