Iowa Admin. Code r. 441-167.1
"Allowable costs" means those expenses of the county or multicounty related to the establishment, improvements, operation, and maintenance of county or multicounty juvenile detention homes.
"County or multicounty" means that the governing body is a county board of supervisors or a combination of members of participating county boards of supervisors.
"Detained" means the period of time a youth is physically occupying a bed in a juvenile detention home (that is, from the time of intake at the juvenile detention home (nothing prior to this) to the time a youth is discharged from the bed at the home (nothing after this)).
"Eligible costs " are those allowable costs that are directly attributable to the function of detaining youth in the home, from the point of intake through discharge from the home, as further defined in subrule 167.3(3).
Iowa Admin. Code r. 441-167.1