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HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESOLUTIONS - 10172007 - RES-472 IN THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, STATE OF CALIFORNIA In the Matter of Resolution Supporting Senate Joint Resolutions 23, 24, 250 26, RESOLUTION NCS, 27 and 28. WHEREAS the Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County, California, has previously endorsed Senate Joint Resolutions Nos . 23, 24, 25, 260 27 and 28, which Joint Resolutions were adopted by the California. Legislature in its 1961 session; and WHEREAS Senate Joint Resolution No. 23, Resolution Chap- ter 111, requests the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare to modify its regulations to permit the states to con- duct research projects limited in their scope to specific areas, so that a state will notjeopardize its continued eligibility for Federal funds under the Aid to Dependent Children program; and WHEREAS Senate Joint Resolution No. 24, Resolution Chap- ter 112, memorializes the Congress to appropriate funds for use by the states for research projects in connection with the Aid to Dependent Children program; and WHEREAS Senate Joint Resolution No. 25, Resolution Chap- ter 113, memorializes the Congress to take such steps as may be necessary to permit a county or state to deduct the costs incurred by the law enforcement agencies in recovering aid from the amount returnable to the Federal Government in proportion to the amount contributed by the Federal Government toward the aid recovered; and WHEREAS Senate Joint Resolution No. 26, Resolution Chap- ter 114, memorializes the Congress to enact legislation that would exempt 50 per cent of the earnings of youth receiving Aid to Dependent Children from deduction from aid grants, and thus to en- courage these youth to become self-supporting; and WHEREAS Senate Joint Resolution No. 27, Resolution Chap- ter 115, memorializes the Congress to enact legislation amending the Social Security Act to permit the payment of Federal funds to the states for dependent children who are cared for in foster homes or boarding homes; and WHEREAS, Senate Joint Resolution No. 28, Resolution Chap- ter 116, urges the Congress to amend the Social Security Act to provide for Federal participation in the costs of aid-in-kind and vendor payments to Aid to Needy Children recipients, but only after the extension of social casework services by the local administrators of the program, and such services have proved ineffective in solv- ing money-grant mismanagement problems; and RESOLUTION NO. 4 7 WHEREAS- said Senate Joint Resolutions were enacted by the California Legislature on the recommendation of the Senate Fact Finding Committee on Labor and Welfare under the chairman- ship of Senator James A. Cobey after a state-wide series of pub- lic hearings in which testimony was received from many sources, and WHEREAS the Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County, California, is convinced that implementation of the said Senate Joint Resolutions would contribute substantially toward giving additional strength and purpose to the Aid to Dependent Children program; NOW, THEREFORE, BE 1T RESOLVED that the Board of Super- visors of Contra Costa County, California, hereby reaffirms its endorsement of Senate Joint Resolutions Nos . 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28, and urges that all possible measures be initiated toward their implementation either through legislative action by the Congress or by administrative action by the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this Resolution be sent to each of Contra Costa. County's Federal and State legis- lative representatives, the Honorable Abraham Ribicoff, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Senator James A . Cobey, Mr. J. M. Wedemeyer, and to such other persons as may be designated by the Chairman of this Board. PASSED AND ADOPTED this 5th day of December, 1961, by the following vote of the Board: AYES: Supervisors Mel F. Nielsen, Thomas John Coll, Edmund A. Linscheid. NOES. None . ABSENT: Supervisors James P. Kenny, Joseph S. Silva.