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SLD Issues Notice for Successful Year 2 and 3 Appellants
Message Posted January 25, 2002
The SLD shortly will be issuing both Funding Commitment Decision Letters
(FCDLs) for original funding commitments and funding commitments based on
successful APPEALS for certain Funding Year 2 and Funding Year 3
applicants. Because so much time has passed between the time these
applications were submitted and the time you will receive your FCDL, the SLD
has provided some useful guidance on how to bring your contracts and
applications up to date.
Recurring Services
Recurring services must have been delivered during the period of July 1 to
June 30 of the relevant Funding Year to be eligible for reimbursement from
these funds. (In other words, Year 2 recurring services must have been
delivered from July 1, 1999 to June 30, 2000; Year 3 recurring services must
have been delivered from July 1, 2000 to June 30, 2001.) In order to
receive reimbursement, you must file Form 486, Receipt of Service
Confirmation Form, and then you or your service provider must submit
invoices for eligible services delivered in the Funding Year. The Form 486
notifies the SLD to begin payment to your service provider and provides
certified indication that your technology plan(s) has been approved. (See
below for more information on the Form 486.)
Non-recurring Services
Any NON-RECURRING service for which funds are committed in these letters
may be delivered up to September 30, 2002. Applicants whose commitments
include support for non-recurring services are advised of the following:
Since these commitments come well after your application was submitted, it
is possible that the Contract Expiration Date(s) indicated on your FCC Form
471 will have passed. (The Contract Expiration Date(s) indicated on your
Form 471 can be found on the Funding Commitment Report attached to your
FCDL.)
Contracts for non-recurring services may be voluntarily extended to
coincide with the appropriate deadline for implementation. However, other
contractual provisions may not be extended beyond the dates established by
the Federal Communications Commission's rules without complying with the
competitive bidding process. If you have been waiting for your FCDL before
you direct your service provider to start non-recurring service and if the
Contract Expiration Date on your Form 471 has passed, the SLD will not be
able to process an FCC Form 486 with an Actual Service Start Date after the
Contract Expiration Date. If this is true for you, you should first
negotiate a contract extension with your service provider and then file an
FCC Form 500, Adjustment to Funding Commitment and Modification to Receipt
of Service Confirmation Form, to notify the SLD of the new Expiration Date.
After submitting the Form 500, your next step will be to file the Form 486
with the SLD. The Form 486 and instructions can be found in the SLD Forms
section of the SLD web site. The Form 486, dated July, 2001 in the lower
right corner, MUST be used for Funding Year 4 and for any previous Funding Years.
As you complete Form 486, you should also contact your service providers to
verify they have received notice from the SLD of your funding commitments.
After the SLD processes your Form 486, they can begin processing invoices
for those discounted services.
Julie Tritt Schell
Director, Office of Educational Technology
Pennsylvania Department of Education
(717) 705-4486
(717) 787-7222 - fax
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