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Human Services Department recommending the Board approve and authorize the Chair to sign Amendment III to nonfinancial, ongoing Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement (JPA) 905-M0810 with the California Statewide Automated Welfare Systems Consortium IV (C-IV) to formalize the new C-IV Consortium regional representation model as a result of the transition of thirty-five migrating counties and four original C-IV counties into one thirty-nine county C-IV production system.
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Fiscal Impact/Change to Net County Cost: No Change. No ongoing costs are associated with this JPA, as amended.
Background: In 1979, the California Legislature passed Assembly Bill 8 requiring the Department of Social Services to implement a centralized welfare system in all counties, which resulted in four Consortiums being developed to meet this mandate. El Dorado County is one of thirty-five counties that have shared use of the Interim Statewide Automated Welfare System (ISAWS) for the determination of welfare eligibility, to issue benefits and to manage welfare-to-work services.
In 2002, the California State Legislature adopted language in AB444 to add §10823.1 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, thereby establishing legislative intent for ISAWS counties’ migration to another consortium system and resulting in the ISAWS Consortium voting to disband and migrate to the C-IV Consortium.
On April 17, 2007, the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors authorized the Chairman to execute Agreement 905-M0810, comprised of a Joint Powers Agreement (JPA) and Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between C-IV and the County. This JPA and MOU authorized El Dorado County to become one of thirty-five counties to join the existing four C-IV counties and begin using a new automated eligibility determination and benefit calculation system for public assistance programs during June 2010. On March 1, 2010, the use of ISAWS was discontinued in this County, and use of C-IV was implemented. Imple...
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