Financial Assurances The following financial assurances are applicable to all grant funds unless the Targeted Grant requirements specifically state the contrary: 1. Separate accountability for the receipt and expenditure of all grant funds under the Contract is maintained for each grant from which the Grantee receives funds. 2. Expenditures reported to the Department are in agreement with the Grantee's accounting records and audited expenditures in each budget category. 3. Expenditures are made in accordance with the Expenditure Guidelines contained in Appendix I of this document and are supported by written documentation. 4. Salary expenditures under each grant are verified and supported by appropriate documentation for hours worked, activities performed, and leave taken. Employees whose salaries are funded 100% out of state funds shall be dedicated to juvenile justice programs and services only. 5. All travel expenses are supported by daily documentation of the individual traveling. The Grantee shall document date, destination, times, mileage or odometer readings, and related travel activities. 6. Travel reimbursements paid with the grant funds, including travel allowances paid in lieu of mileage, are paid according to county policy and do not exceed travel reimbursement rates adopted by the county or p ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, lodging, and travel reimbursement rates established by the State of Texas in the General Appropriations Act. 7. The grant funds used for residential expenditures are paid for placement of a juvenile in a pre-adjudication detention secure facility, a short-term secure detention facility, a post-adjudication secure correctional facility, or a non-secure correctional facility, operated by or under the authority of the Grantee or another governmental entity. 8. The grant funds used for residential child-care facilities and out-of-state residential placement facilities do not exceed the Health and Human Services Commission’s Levels of Care Rates [TJJD-IVE-200]. This financial assurance does not apply to facilities that are registered with the Department. 9. The grant funds used for Department-registered facilities dodo not exceed the Tier Level of Care Rates for Registered Facilities [TJJD-FIS-175]. 10. The grant funds are not expended for the purchase of equipment, renovation, or construction unless explicitly authorized by the Department within any Targeted Grant requirements. An item is equipment if county policy requires it to be capitalized or, if the county has no policy, it has a useful life of more than one year and a cost of more than $8,000.00. 11. Authorized capital purchases are capitalized and depreciated within the county accounting system. 12. Proper cut-off procedures are observed at the end of each fiscal period. Obligations of the fiscal period under review are not paid from funds of a subsequent fiscal period. Obligations of a subsequent fiscal period are not prepaid from funds of a fiscal period under review. A modified accrual basis of accounting is only used in preparing fourth quarter expenditure reports to the Department. 13. Refunds and reimbursements are properly accounted for as reductions of expenditures rather than as increases in revenues. 14. Any funds not expended under the terms of each grant were/are returned to the Department according to the Unexpended Balances and Refunds Due provisions contained in Subsections VIII (D) (2) and VIII (D) (4), respectively. 15. The amount of local or county funds expended, excluding construction and/or renovation for juvenile services, is at least equal to or greater than the amount spent in the 1994 county fiscal year. 16. All employees with access to monies are covered by surety bonds. 17. All county and state transactional funds, revenues, and expenses are separated. 18. Idle funds are invested in an account that provides a reasonable interest rate and provides necessary protection of principal. Interest on grant funds is credited to the account of the juvenile probation department for the provision of juvenile probation services and juvenile justice programs.