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To: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
FROM: Supervisor Tom Torlakson Contra
Costa
DATE: September 10, 1985 County
SUBJECT: REVIEW OF COMMUNITY SERVICES SYSTEM 1
SPECIFIC REQUESTS) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATIO14
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: I met recently with the Pittsburg
Area Council to discuss the future of the Community Services
Administration system and to discuss the issues related to future
funding. Certain key questions need==; to be answered, such as:
Is there a more streamlined and efficient way of con-
tinuing the public "grassroots" input process that is
built into the CSA system?
I believe we should conserve as much money as possible in
the administrative process and divert these monies instead for direct
services to the people.
A survey could be conducted after meetings to discuss the
issues with the various delegate agencies, area councils and the EOC
itself for a response to such questions as :
Would you rather see CSA money diverted from the
elaborate meeting .process to direct services through
a) the elimination of area councils; (b) the elimin-
ation of the EOC; or (c) some kind of melting together
of the EOC and' area councils into a body half the size
of the current EOC which would rotate its meetings to
various areas of the county during the year and devote
part of the meeting to area input to be chaired by an
area representative for that particular region.
Ida Berk, as department head, should be directed to design such a
survey and to bring this issue to the September 21, 1985, meeting
wherein delegate agencies, area councils and EOC are to convene
together in a Saturday workshop. We should ask that the EOC and Ida
Berk report back in four months (January) to the Board of Supervisors
and bring to bur agenda some conclusion on the survey and evaluation
process regarding the public input/committee structure currently
existing and alternatives for the future.
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Community Services Director Phil Batchelor, Clerk of the Board of
Supervisors and County Administrator
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REVIEW OF COMMUNITY SERVICES SYSTEM
September 10, 1985
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Sometime in early February, a workshop and report session
(of at least a half hour duration) should be agendaed for the Board of
Supervisors ' calendar wherein the department head and the EOC can
report back on some of the issues and findings of their evaluation
process. This report should include answers to the following
important questions:
(a) how is the CSA public input/committee process currently
structured?
(b) how much money can be saved by streamlining and reducing
the meeting/committee process?
(c) what mandatory guidelines must be dealt with?
(d) how can the county go about receiving waivers or
amending the law to reduce these mandatory guidelines to achieve the
kind of flexibility necessary to design an effective but less
elaborate committee input process?
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Refer to the County Administrator and
the Director the Community Services Department to review the CSA
system, conduct a survey and report to the Board of Supervisors in a
future workshop as described above and under the timeframe outlined
above.
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