On January 30, the federal Recovery Web site, www.Recovery.gov will post stimulus activities and spending for the quarter ending December 31, 2009. The State of Ohio is fully complying with the Recovery Act which requires all prime recipients of federal stimulus dollars to report to the federal government through www.federalreporting.gov.
Of the more than $8.5 billion that the state is expected to receive during this multi-year program, approximately $2.5 billion has been expended – only $887 million of which falls within the requirements to be reported through the 1512 reporting process.
The information below reflects awards provided directly to the State of Ohio. It does not include all reported awards in Ohio, such as those to local government, non-profits, businesses and other prime recipients. Therefore, the information that follows is not a comprehensive report of Recovery Act spending and activities in Ohio.
Section 1512 of the Recovery Act requires prime recipients to report data including:
As in the previous quarter, all Prime Recipients of Recovery Act awards from the federal government must file 1512 reports and financial data to the federal government. This includes:
The State of Ohio will report data on 61 programs administered at the state level.
These programs represent about $1.6 billion in stimulus spending through December 31, 2009.
In addition, the Recovery Act includes personal income tax relief impacting 95% or Americans and 4.5 million Ohioans.
On December 18, 2009, the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued new guidance for calculating jobs created and retained with ARRA funds. The new guidance changes job calculations in two major ways. First, job calculations are now made based exclusively on hours worked during the quarter, that were paid for with ARRA funds. Therefore, jobs are counted by determining the number of actual hours worked that were paid for with ARRA funds and then converted into full-time equivalents. The second change in guidance requires 1512 jobs reporting for the quarter only, rather than being cumulative across quarters.
Acknowledging that prime recipients (e.g. state and local governments) would not be able to collect data from subrecipients using the new calculation by December 31, OMB also adjusted reporting timelines.
As in the previous quarter, data will be available to the public at the end of the month, and will be posted on Recovery.gov.
A full version of December 18, OMB guidance can be viewed at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/assets/memoranda_2010/m10-08.pdf. PDF
Ohio's second quarter 1512 data, like other prime recipients' data across the nation, will change as new OMB guidance is fully implemented. Depending upon the program, Ohio's jobs data will, at first, be reported using two different job calculation methodologies – the method used for the first quarter's report, and the new December 18, 2009 methodology. As state agencies receive new job calculations from their subrecipients, Ohio will update reports on federalreporting.gov.
Therefore this quarter, Ohio's jobs numbers are presented in two charts. Chart #1 represents the ARRA programs and their respective job calculations using the previous OMB guidance. Chart #2 represents the programs and job calculations using the December 18, 2009 methodology. As state agencies receive updated calculations from their subrecipients, Ohio will revise both charts until all job calculations conform to the new guidance.
Preliminary data filed on January 27, shows that 20,672 direct full-time equivalent positions have been created and maintained with stimulus dollars. As all jobs are calculated using the new methodology, this number may change.
As in the previous reporting period, job calculations represent direct jobs only and do not include indirect jobs (jobs created for suppliers) and induced jobs (jobs created in the community as a result of the stimulus project). The President's Council of Economic Advisors is responsible for calculating the broader jobs numbers. (http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/cea/Economic-Impact/)