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Human Services Department requesting the Board adopt Resolution authorizing the release of General Assistance liens upon full repayment to the County of aid received and designating the Director of the El Dorado County Department of Human Services as the County officer with the authority to execute instruments of release for said liens.
Resolution 017-2010
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Fiscal Impact/Change to Net County Cost:
No impact to Net County Cost.
Background:
California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17000 requires every county to relieve and support all incompetent, poor, indigent persons, and those incapacitated by age, disease, or accident, lawfully resident therein, when such persons are not supported and relieved by their relatives or friends, by their own means, or by state hospitals or other state or private institutions. This is support is known as the General Assistance Program. The Department of Human Services is the County department designated to administer the General Assistance Program in El Dorado County.
Reason for Recommendation:
General Assistance (GA) aid recipients are required to reimburse the County in full for any and all monies, food, clothing and other relief, maintenance, care, property and services granted by the County. The County files a lien against the recipient upon granting General Assistance aid. Once the recipient has fully reimbursed the County, a Release of Lien must be processed. The resolution authorizes the release of said liens upon full repayment to the County of GA aid received and designates the Director of Human Services as the County officer with the authority to execute instruments of release on behalf of the County.
The delegation of signature authority covers only releases upon full repayment of General Assistance aid. The Board of Supervisors retains authority over reconveyances and subordinations, as well as any actions for less than full repayment of General Assistance aid and for actions related to ot...
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