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MEMORANDUM
TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Crystal Markytan, Social Services Director
DATE: July 25, 2017
SUBJECT: Consideration of Resolution Approving the Exit of Lake County from Title IV-E Child Welfare Waiver Demonstration Project Effective September 30, 2017.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
The Lake County Department of Social Services (LCDSS) and the Lake County Probation Department (Probation) jointly request that the Board of Supervisors approve Lake County's exit from the Title IV-E Child Welfare Waiver Demonstration Project ("Project") effective September 30, 2017.
LCDSS and the Probation Department executed an agreement with the California Department of Social Services to participate in the Project commencing October 1, 2014 through September 30, 2019; the Lake County Board of Supervisors subsequently approved the agreement. LCDSS projects that continued participation in the Project will require a substantial amount of unanticipated county funding. The Project was designed to be cost neutral while allowing cost savings to be reinvested in innovative programs that would mitigate children entering foster care. However, under the Project's capped federal funding, additional local funds beyond the required match had to be used in order to operate the project. During fiscal years 2015-16 and 2016-17, the Project-related expenditures exceeded the Project match by approximately $1.5 million dollars and $2 million dollars respectively, due to unanticipated increases in mandated foster care assistance and administrative costs.
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FISCAL IMPACT (Narrative): Funding for affected programs will revert back to pre-Project sources of funding. LCDSS and Probation will receive a combination of capped and uncapped federal funds for program administration.
LCDSS will provide approximately $415,000.00 in rea...
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