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Community Services), the Department of Family and Community Services;

(11) “desired outcomes” means the expected results from a grant program, including results from strategies used in a grant project;

(12) “direct cost” means a cost that can be identified with a particular grant or an activity of a grant project;

(13) “encumbrance” means a financial commitment related to unperformed executory contracts for goods or services;

(14) “facilities manager” means the department employee designated by the commissioner to supervise the management of facilities operated under grants made under this chapter;

(15) “grant” means an award of financial or direct assistance to an eligible applicant under this chapter;

(16) “grant award” means the award of a grant under this chapter;

(17) “grant income” means income earned during the grant period from a grant-funded project;

(18) “grant money” means the money provided in a grant award, including any match described in the grant agreement; “grant money” does not include grant income;

(19) “grant period” means the time period for which the grantee has been awarded a grant;

(20) “grant program” means a program established by the department, or created under state or federal law, for which the commissioner awards a grant for the services or activities an applicant or grantee provides or proposes to provide through a grant project;

(21) “grant project” means a project for which a grant is awarded to provide services or activities for one or more grant programs;

(22) “grantee” means the person or other legally accountable entity that receives a grant;

(23) “indirect cost” means a cost that is common to two or more projects or operations of a grantee;

(24) “minimum responsiveness criteria” means requirements set out in a request for proposals, request for letters of interest, or other method of solicitation that a grant applicant must comply with in the submission of a grant proposal to be considered for a grant by the department, including any deadline for submittal that is stated in the request or solicitation;

(25) “nonexpendable personal property” means

(A) an article of tangible personal property that is complete in itself, is of a durable nature, has an expected useful life of more than one year, and has an acquisition cost, as