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FROM: Phil Batchelor C=tra
County Administrator Costa
DATE: December 21 , 1987
SUBJECT:
Legislation: AB 558 (Hannigan)
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION•
Adopt a position in support of AB 558 by Assemblyman Hannigan and
request that Contra Costa County be included as one of the pilot
counties.
BACKGROUND:
On August 12, 1987, the Solano County Board of Supervisors wrote
to the Board asking that the Board support AB 558 by Assemblyman
Hannigan. AB 558 allows three pilot counties to claim 100 of the
county' s 1986-87 AFDC-FC expenditures in advance if the county
shows that it will conduct a program of family reunification and
family maintenance services. The bill also provides criteria to
measure the success of the pilot projects.
The pilot programs are to be designed to test the effectiveness
of more intensive services in preventing foster care placement
and reducing the length of stay in foster care. AB 558 presently
provides for only three pilot projects. The counties are to be
geographically balanced and include one, large, one medium, and
one small county. Contra Costa County qualifies as a large
county given the definition provided in the bill. Because the
bill is sponsored by Solano County, it is assumed that they will
be one of the pilot counties. Selecting Contra Costa as one of
the two remaining pilot counties may be difficult given the
geographic proximity of Solano and Contra Costa counties.
It is, therefore, suggested that the Board of Supervisors support
AB 558 and authorize the County' s lobbyist to discuss with the
author the possibility of expanding the number of pilot projects
in order to include Contra Costa County. The potential for
eliminating the need for foster care placement, or reducing the
length of time a child must remain in foster care, are worthy
goals which this Board has supported in the past. The use of
foster care funds for this. purpose allows a real challenge where
the achievement of the project' s goals will reduce the need for
foster care funding and thereby allow the. program to pay for
itself.
AB 558 has been included in the Board' s 1988/JLegislative
JProgram.
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VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
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T UNANIMOUS (ABSENT ) AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
AYES: NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
CC: County Administrator ATTESTED
Social Services Director PHIL ATCHE<OR; CLERK F THE BOARD OF
Solano County Board Of Supervisors
Kathy Snodgrass, Jackson/Barish SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
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