Under allowable costs, can existing staff be used for the grant position, on a part-time basis?
A. We did not receive a grant in FY 07, so this would be a new role for existing personnel. The answer to your question is multi-faceted in nature. While it IS possible for you to use existing personnel to work on this grant part-time, you pose a potentially dangerous situation for your business if your business cannot show that the work that the existing person is leaving behind is being performed by another staff person and so on. The federal term for this is called “supplanting”.
