Improving the Use of the Grants System

Abstract

This paper deals with the use of the Grant Management module in SCEIS for the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism. It was found that it was difficult to use and the Department still had to maintain separate spreadsheets in order to track grants as do several other agencies. In order for SCPRT and other agencies to track their grants in SCEIS, changes need to occur either at SCEIS by lifting the budget ceiling requirement they have in place in the Grant Management module or at the State Budget Office by allowing agencies to load their total budget authorization needed for their grants.