Administration

Fiscal Agent

Statewide Outcome(s):

The fiscal agent supports the following statewide outcome(s).

Efficient and accountable government services.

Context:

The fiscal agent ensures that the grants and other special funding programs Admin receives through specific appropriations from the Legislature are distributed to recipients and managed according to applicable laws, statutes, policies, and procedures.

Strategies:

·         Public Television and Radio Grants - provide financial assistance for public television and public noncommercial radio stations serving Minnesota citizens (M.S. 129D.11-16).

·         Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment - administer appropriated funding from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund to support public television, public radio, zoos, veterans’ camps, museums, and film projects. Additional details about Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund grants managed by Admin are available at http://www.admin.state.mn.us/achfgrants.

·         Pass-through Accounts - provide funding for approximately 372,000 square feet, 22 monuments and memorials, and 28.3 acres of ceremonial grounds that that are not directly paid and include:

o    Ceremonial areas – Capitol Building ceremonial spaces, such as the rotunda; the governor’s residence; and the ceremonial grounds and monuments/memorials in the Capitol area.

o    Services for the Blind – space occupied by blind vending operators in buildings under the agency’s custodial control (M.S. 248.07, subd. 7).

o    Rent waived – space occupied in the Capitol, State Office Building, and Veterans Service Building by the House of Representatives, Senate, Revisor of Statutes, Legislative Reference Library, and Congressionally chartered veterans’ organizations (M.S. 197.55 to 197.58).

·         Legislatively assigned - administer other grants and funding appropriated by the Legislature, such as construction grants to political subdivisions.

Results:

The agency strives to foster more efficient and effective management of state resources through professional administration of legislatively mandated grants.

Performance Measures Notes:

Data compares public broadcasting and Legacy Amendment grantee report submittals for FY 2011 (previous) to FY 2012 (current).