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Kittitas County Public Health Department <br />Simplified lndirect Cost Allocation Plan <br />For the Year Ended December 37,2021 <br />NARRATIVE <br />ln order for the Kittitas County Public Health Department (KCPHD) to comply with federal <br />regulations in the Uniform Grant Guidance, a simplified lndirect Cost Allocation Plan is adopted <br />to be able to bill indirect costs to grants. <br />KCPHD's financialdata from 202tis used to formulate the 2023 lndirect Cost Allocation Plan. <br />The distribution base on which the indirect rate will be allocated is the direct salaries charged <br />to department's programs. <br />The department's costs are divided into two categories: administration costs and direct <br />program costs. Within the category of administration costs, only expenses incurred for common <br />or joint purposes and in support of all programs are considered indirect costs. The costs coded <br />to individual programs are considered direct costs. <br />DEFINITIONS <br />o All Other Direct Costs - the amount remaining from total costs less unallowable costs, <br />indirect costs, and direct salaries. <br />o Direct Costs - costs that can be identified specifically with a particular final cost <br />objective such as a particular award, project, service or other direct activity of an <br />organization. <br />a Direct Cost Base - the 2021 fiscal year salaries for each program within the public health <br />department. <br />Exclusions - costs that are passed through or sub-granted to others are considered to be <br />excludable costs. Some salaries that were charged to administration are not included in <br />the indirect costs. Also, the portion of the department's supplies and services and <br />charges expenses that were determined to not be directly associated with <br />administration duties were excluded. <br />a lndirect Cost All ocation Plan -the documentation identifying, accumulating, and <br />developing rates based on the allowable costs of the public health administrative <br />division. These costs may be allocated to the individual programs and billed to the <br />program grants. <br />a lndirect Cost Rate - a device for determin ing in a reasonable manner the proportion of <br />indirect costs each program should bear. lt is the ratio of the indirect costs to a direct <br />cost base. <br />lndirect Costs - those costs incurred for a common objective that benefits more than <br />one grant program or project. Such costs are not readily assignable to the cost objective <br />specifica I ly benefitted. <br />Uniform Grant Guidance - United States Office of Management & Budget document <br />establishing principles and standards for determining costs for Federal awards carried <br />a <br />a <br />o