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Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) recommending the Board approve and authorize the Chair and the Director of HHSA to sign the revised Certification of Assurance of Compliance, a form required for submission of a grant application, pertaining to the Request for Applications issued by the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services for the County Victim Services Program for Fiscal Years 2021-22 and 2022-23, for an estimated grant funding amount of $159,395.
FUNDING: 64% Victims of Crime Act federal funds and 36% State funds.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND:
On August 24, 2021, under Board Item 20-1185, Agenda No. 13, the Board authorized the Director of Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) to submit a grant application to the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) for the County Victim Services program, for an estimated allocation of $159,395. If the grant is awarded to the County, the totality of the funding will be sub-awarded to CASA of El Dorado to provide Court Appointed Special Advocates for victims of child abuse and neglect.
The grant application, consistent with the requirements of the County Victim Services Program Request for Applications, requires a Certification of Assurance of Compliance (Certification) to be signed by the Board Chair and Director of HHSA. HHSA brought this Certification to the Board for approval and signature under Board Item 20-1185 on August 24, 2021, in which the Board approved and authorized the Chair and the HHSA Director to sign said Certification.
Since Board approval and signature by the Chair was acquired on the Certification, Cal OES released a revised Certification of Assurance of Compliance for the County Victim Services Program, notifying all applicants that a new version of this form was published and that a revised Certification must be completed, signed and submitted to Cal OES as part of the grant submission package. As a result, HHSA processed the revised Certifi...
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