Fiscal Committee Highlights - September 10, 2003

Fiscal Committee Highlights

September 10, 2003

 

•   Nancy Guy of DCD discussed a change the Executive Board had asked be made in the reallocation process for DCD subsidy funds.   Reallocations in October would take funds from counties with spending coefficients less than 98% and reallocate this unspent funding first to all counties to assure coverage of spending at coefficients of 106%, and second to cover expenses, to the extent funding is available, in counties with coefficients above 106%.   The same process would be used in February with spending thresholds at 94% for reversion of funds and 98% for receipt of any funds available for reallocation.

 

• Sarah Barham, the new Division Budget Officer, was introduced.   She came to the position after working 21 years in the Department of Revenue.

 

• Volunteers for the CIP Allocations Committee being established by the Division were identified.   They included Mona Batton, Ken Adams, and Millie Brown.   Nancy Coston and Jim Cook are also to participate in the Committee.   (Letitia Maynor and Willie Beachum later volunteered for service on the Committee.)

 

• Funding for Adult Day Care will remain at last year’s level.

 

• With regard to the transfer of adult services staff and program administration to the Division of Aging, transfer of funding to support Division staff has occurred.   No transfer of program funding (e.g., SSBG funds allocated to county dss’s) is planned.

 

• Effective October 1, when a county claims federal TANF funds in excess of the amount included in its County Work First Block Grant, federal funds in excess of the county’s allocation will no longer be reimbursed to the county.    A letter with details is to be issued soon.

 

• 15 counties have still not made repayments of SACWIS funds.   The state will arrange to effect these repayments by decreasing administrative reimbursements to these counties.