You would need to follow your institutional policy on this one.  The only way to account for the effort that is being devoted to the project in my experience is to set up a cost share for the effort that the person is devoting to the project that should generate an effort report for them.

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From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org] On Behalf Of Nicole M. Corali
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 3:06 PM
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Subject: [RESADM-L] Summer Salary

Good Afternoon -

Has anyone come across a faculty member who wants to forgo budgeted summer salary. The PI is paid on a 9 month appointment. There is academic year cost share already associated with this grant. They want to forgo summer salary in order to use it on other expenses. The problem being, they are not reducing their effort, but rather working for no compensation during the summer. Since they are not receiving salary, we have no way to certify their effort other than have them signing a certification that they are committing the amount of effort originally proposed, but this brings into question voluntary cost share issues, but since there is no salary associated with summer pay, there is no way to track the associated cost share. Has anyone run into this and how did you handle?

Thanks,
Nicole

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