HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESOLUTIONS - 10172007 - RES-135 IN THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
OF
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
In the Matter of An Equit abl e
Distribution of Program Costs
in the Aid to Needy Children RESOLUTION NO.135
Program.
WHEREAS, HR 4884 has now been signed by President Kennedy,
and
WHEREAS) this provision has as its purpose expansion of
the Aid to Needy Children program to include children in need be-
cause of the unemployment of a parent, and
WHEREAS, enactment of enabling legislation by the State
Legislature would activate said expanded program in California
with an estimated cost increase in Contra Costa County of approxi-
mately #300,000 in County funds, on the basis of the current finan-
cial distribution formula of 62.5% State funds and 32.5% County
funds after deduction of the Federal share, and
WHEREAS, such additional cost would impose a severe finan-
cial burden on the ad valorem taxpayers of the counties, and
WHEREAS, the current cost sharing formula in use in the
Old Age Security and Aid to the Disabled programs, i.e., six-seventh
State funds and one seventh County funds after deduction of the
Federal share has long been looked upon as an equitable distribu-
tion of program costs. '
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Supervisors
of Centra Costa County is not opposed to the implementation in
California of the provisions of HR 1.8$4 which provides for the ex-
pansion of Aid to Needy Children to include children of unemployed
parents, but
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that said Board of Supervisors
does express opposition to the current cost distribution of 62.5%
State funds and 32.5% County funds after deduction of the Federal
share, and urges that said formula be revised by the State Legisla.
ture in such manner as to bring said formula into cgnformity with
that currently used in the Old Age Security and Aid to the Dis-
abled programs, and
RESOLUTION NO. 135
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this Resolution
be dispatched to the Honorable Edmund G. Brown, Governor of the
State of California, and to Senator George Miller, Jr., Assembly-
man Jerome R. Waldie, and Assemblyman John T. Knox.
The foregoing resolution was passed and adapted this
lst day of June, 1961, by the following vote of the Board:
AYES: Supervisors James P. Kenny, Mel F. Nielsen,
Edmund A. Linscheid, Joseph S. Silva.
NOES: ,None.
ABSENT: Supervisor Thomas John Coll.
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