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Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) recommending the Board:
1) Adopt and authorize the Chair to sign Resolution 015-2016, which amends the Authorized Personnel Allocation Resolution for HHSA to add one (1) full time equivalent (FTE) Social Worker, and one (1) FTE Staff Services Analyst; and
2) Approve and authorize the Chair to sign a Budget Transfer Request to increase revenue and appropriations by $96,430 in the Fiscal Year 2015/16 budget to recognize an additional allocation for a new State Foster Parent Recruitment Retention and Support position. (4/5 vote required)
FUNDING: Federal and State, specifically Assembly Bill 2129 funding stream; State Foster Parent Recruitment Retention and Support funding; and Realignment.
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DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDATION
Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) recommending the Board adopt a resolution adding one (1) full-time equivalent (FTE) Social Worker position and one (1) FTE Staff Services Analyst. The one (1) FTE Social Worker will be funded by a new State Foster Parent Recruitment Retention and Support allocation and previously underutilized federal Foster Parent Training and Recruitment Program funding, and the one (1) FTE Staff Services Analyst will be funded with a combination of a previously underutilized federally funded Foster Parent Training and Recruitment Program funding stream (Assembly Bill 2129, approved September 30, 2010), plus Realignment savings. These allocations are requested in accordance with requirements of All County Letter (ACL) 15-76, which indicates the Foster Parent Recruitment Retention and Support funding allocation must be used to supplement and not supplant resources. In order to fund the allocations, HHSA also recommending the Board approve and authorize the Chair to sign a Budget Transfer Request to increase revenue and appropriations by $96,430 in Fiscal Year 2015-16.
DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
Assembly Bill (AB) 403, approved on October 11, 2015, is driving significant refor...
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