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Cumberland County adopts 12.5% indirect cost rate for grants to cover administrative expenses
Summary
The county commission voted unanimously to adopt a 12.5% indirect cost rate to apply to federal and state grants to help cover administrative costs, an action county officials said will help staff manage an increasing volume of grants.
Cumberland County commissioners unanimously approved a policy to apply a 12.5% indirect cost rate to grants the county receives, county manager Jim Gailey said Tuesday. The measure applies the rate to grant budgets to cover county-level administrative costs tied to grant oversight and administration.
Gailey told the commission that the county historically absorbed such administrative overhead in the general fund when…
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