
Grants Management Seminar 2022-2023
- Registration Closed
Date: 03.16.2023
Location: This is a fully virtual event
Cost: Member - $0 | Non-Member - $200
This seminar is designed to develop a general understanding of the role and responsibilities of district personnel when managing grants (with an emphasis on federal education grants), provide knowledge and best practices in the area of grants management, and discuss requirements outlined in the Uniform Guidance.
AGENDA
8:00 a.m.
Welcome & Introductions
8:15 a.m.
Foundations of Managing State and Federal Grants (CPIM Approved)
Grant Timelines
Original Budgets
Brian Jones & Karl Koenig, ODE
9:30 a.m.
Break
9:45 a.m.
Implementation of State and Federal Grants Management (CPIM Approved)
· Budget Revisions
· How to draw and receive funds (Project Cash Requests)
· Grant Closeout (Final Expenditure Reports)
Brian Jones & Karl Koenig, ODE
11:15 a.m.
Lunch
12:00 p.m.
State and Federal Grants Management (CPIM Approved)
Grants Administration Website
Interactive Manual
Uniform Guidance overview and resources to support implementation
Brian Jones & Karl Koenig, ODE
1:15 p.m.
Break
1:30 p.m.
Federal Program (CPIM Approved)
Proper Public Purpose
Expenditures in Accordance with Grants (program side)
Supplement not Supplant
Title I Comparability
Maintenance of Effort, Equity
Brian Jones & Karl Koenig, ODE
2:20 p.m.
Break
2:30 p.m.
ESSER/GEER and Federal Reporting (CPIM Approved)
Provide an overview of the current pandemic relief funding and expectations for
reporting for treasurers to the US Department of Education
Capital Expenditures and Davis-Bacon Act
Procurement
Brian Jones & Karl Koenig, ODE
3:30 p.m.
Conclusion and Q & A
Brian Jones
CFO, Office of Fiscal, Ohio Department of Education & Workforce
Brian currently serves as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce. Brian has a quarter century of senior leadership experience in Ohio’s state education agency guiding its fiscal and grant responsibilities.
Leading Ohio’s education agency team on grant and fiscal mandates for nearly two decades, Brian guides a large team with a multi-billion dollar portfolio of fiscal oversight mandates. Those mandates encompass federal financial compliance, internal control structure, risk assessment and subrecipient monitoring for the agency.
Prior to joining the state education agency, Brian served as an Audit Supervisor with both the Auditor of State (AoS) and the Ohio Department of Development. During his tenure with the AoS, he led the agency’s auditing responsibilities of the Department Human Services at both the state and county levels. While with the Department of Development, he was responsible for financial/programmatic compliance audits and technical assistance to numerous cities, counties and not-for-profits.
Brian is seen as a national leader in education fiscal policy, and he has presented at both state and national level conferences on both fiscal management and auditing in the education environment.

Karl Koenig
Manager, Office of Grant Implementation, ODE Office of Grant Administration
Karl Koenig has worked for the Ohio Department of Education for the past 17 years. During his time with the Department he has helped manage and implement federal education grants in the Office of Federal Programs, assisted community schools and sponsors as the Director of the Office of Community Schools and most recently joined the Office of Grant Implementation assisting ODE program offices and districts with ensuring fiscal compliance with grants.
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