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Subject: Critical Information Regarding
Payment for 2005-06 ECSE Services
Source: Linda Sneller, Assistant Director, Funds Management
Intended Audience: Special Education Directors, Superintendents, Financial
Administrators
Date: March 17, 2006
Due to changes in the Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE) budget
process the following information is absolutely critical and will have
significant impact on the payment your district receives for ECSE services
provided during the 2005-06 school year.
1. Districts will not be able to enter the amount of leases, lease purchases
or purchases for real estate, buses, or office equipment into their ECSE FER.
Copies of all leases, lease purchases or purchases for real estate, buses,
or office equipment must be submitted to the Funds Management Section of the
Division of Special Education, attention Sandy Kliethermes (fax
573-526-5946). Upon approval, DESE will enter the approved amount into your
FER.
2. Core Data: It is important for districts to use the correct Core Data
codes when entering ECSE personnel. A chart entitled, ECSE Core Data
Personnel Detail Worksheet, has been posted on our website to help districts
use the correct course codes, position codes, delivery system codes, grade
levels, and program codes. The link for this chart is
http://dese.mo.gov/divspeced/Finance/ecseindex.html.
3. ECSE expenditures must be aligned with data
in the Annual Secretary of the Board Report (ASBR). Therefore, all ECSE
expenditures must be coded using the revenue codes of 2559 for
transportation and 1280 for all other ECSE expenditures.
Note: The existing historical ECSE budget information on DESE's website will
not be available for districts to access after the new ECSE FER is in place.
Therefore, each district should print off copies of their old budget
applications and FERs by May 1, 2006. Remember the summary pages and comment
pages must be printed separately. If there are lengthy comments on the
comments page, they will have to be copied to a word document and then
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