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TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Contra
FROM:. PERFECTO VILLARREAL, DIRECTOR l Costa
i Social Service Department ' s
a County
DATE: June 9, 1992
Subject: : APPROVAL OF COUNTY PLAN FOR REFUGEE SERVICES PROGRAMS
AND hSSUANCE OF REQUESTS FOR PROPOSALS (RFP's)
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)i BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
I. RECOMMENDATIONS:
Approve .the 1992 County Plan for Refugee Services.
Authorize the Director of Social Service to accept estimated
Federal Refugee Program funding and execute State agreements as
follows:
Funding Program Approximate Amount
Source Operations of Funding
Period
1) Refugee Employment 4/1/92 - 9/30/93 $249,471
Social Services (RESS)
2) Targeted. Assistance 10/1/92 - 9/30/93 $234,250
- ;Program (TA'92)
3) .Mutual Assistance 10/1/92 - 9/30/93 $17,198
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Authorize the Director to issue 'Requests for Proposals (RFPfs) for
the. following programs in the following amounts:
Employment Services $109,306
Social Adjustment $54, 178
Health .Care Worker Trng $75,972
West. County English as a
Second Language (ESL) $87,840
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT. YES SIGNATURE: '
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMAE
APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE{81;
ACTION OF BOARD ON June -16 -1992 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X _ OTHER .X_
APPROVED the 1992 County Plan for Refugee Services and recommended
ac.tions.; REQUESTED Social Service staff to express to the County' s
legislative representatives the Board' s concerns on possible _
fundin:g:. cuts for the programs and to request the representatives
to provide 4 'report on the status and projections for funding the
program.
VOTE.OF.SUPERVISORS
1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
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: Vial Social Services ATTESTED
PHIL 8 CHELOR,CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
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BY ,DEPUTY
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Central Intake Unit (CIU) $58,837
Youth Employment Program $35,255
Information & Referral (West) $17,956
' Information & Referral
(East/Central) $17,956
II. FINANCIAL IMPACT:
The source of these funds is -from the -Federal. Office of Refugee
Resettlement (ORR) plus approximately $108,000 in unspent funds
from prior years' . ORR . allocations. The funding for the two
----- __._Information_ and Referral programs is derived from the County's
Title XX Refugee_ Social sery c�-es a�
No County funds are involved.
III. BACKGROUND:. .
The Board,, on March. 20, 1984, designated the Social Service
Department as the agency responsible for planning and writing
County' Plans' . for Refugee Targeted Assistance (TA) 'services.
Additionally, the Board resolved on November 10, 1987 that the
Department would be responsible for administering the Refugee
Employment Social Services Program (RESS) and the Mutual Assistance
' Association Grant (MAAG) when management responsibilities were
transferred from .the State to the County effective .July 1, 1988..
To receive funds for the programs shown above, Contra Costa County
is submitting the present. County Plan to the (State) Refugee and
Immigratio.n. Program, Bureau (RIPB) for their approval. This County
Plan: was prepared' according to ,guidelines issued by RIPB and with
.input-,;from the ,Refugee Services Advisory Council and from members
of the. community at a Public Hearing conducted on May 20, 1992.
At the Public Hearing, twelve (12) persons testified, including
several from' the refugee community. Most spoke in favor of the
Plan and none opposed it.