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April 13, 2016<\/p>\n

If a piece of Category 2 equipment is shared by two or more schools, the cost of the equipment must be allocated from the C2 budgets of the schools sharing the equipment (core switches and wireless controllers are good examples of shared equipment).\u00a0 Deciding which cost allocation method to choose — and making sure you do so correctly on your Form 471 — is important.<\/p>\n

After you enter the costs in the FRN Line Item and identify the schools sharing the equipment, the 471 will ask “Are the costs shared equally among all of the entities?”.<\/em>\u00a0 If you answer \u201cYes,\u201d the system will split the costs of this line item equally among the recipients identified.\u00a0 For example, if the equipment costs $25,000 and there are 4 schools sharing the equipment, the system will take $6250 from each school’s C2 budget.\u00a0 This is not the method that most applicants will want to choose, even though it’s very tempting to click “Yes” and let the system do the math for you.\u00a0 Rather, I recommend that you do the offline math and perform a weighted allocation.<\/p>\n

Weighted Allocation Options <\/strong><\/p>\n

For equipment that\u2019s being shared among multiple schools, you likely want to select \u201cNo\u201d to the question “Are the costs shared equally among all of the entities?”<\/em> and then do a weighted allocation.\u00a0 Unlike last year, the system will not do this math for you, unfortunately.\u00a0 Thus, applicants will have to do some quick, offline-math so you know what the weighted costs will be.\u00a0 Which method of weighting is up to you!\u00a0 The attached slides from the C2 Guide<\/a> provide screenshots of the necessary steps.<\/p>\n

1)<\/strong>\u00a0 By % of Enrollment
\n<\/strong>This is the weighted allocation option most commonly used by schools.<\/p>\n