New Michigan Grants for FRC

[marccenter]

I sat down with our district finance director the other day and had everything submitted in about 15 minutes. I would suggest that you get a face to face meeting with the person responsible for the submission, as there are some things that they might not know on the application. Nothing major, but just information about sponsors and contact numbers and addresses. Our district was excited about it because they are going to be supporting us beyond workspace for the first time.

I electronically submitted all the information, met with the grant submitter and have been "bird dogging" the grant applicaton since Oct 15th. The grant submitter is stumbling over the wording "hired a coach". Since my day job is an engineer, I am presently not "hired" by the school district and I am working through the "hiring process" presently. I am pretty sure I will not be able to jump through "all the hoops" to be "hired" before Nov 7th, thus losing out on the $5000 for team expenses and $1500 for coach pay.

Are you "already hired" as a coach or did your district finance director "overlook" or "not notice" this aspect of the grant?

BTW, I have made FIRST of Michigan aware of my condundrum. I think the issue can be resolved by changing the meaning of the word "hired" to "identified". I don't think many of the high varsity school coaches starting after January have been officially "hired" by their respective high schools, but, I could be wrong.