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Home My WebLink About91-145~' -~4 tggd 93 ~ _ _ ..^ r. _ . , _,_ ~~ ., :~ ~~~'~' BOARD Off' SU PERU ~SOF~S ''~' COUNTY„,OF BUTTE, STATE OF CALIFORNIA .' +~ Kesolufion ~10, 91~ 14 RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING THE SIITTE COUNTY HEALTH AND WELFARE TRUST FUND AND HUiKAN SERVICES.COORDINATING COUNCIL WHEREAS, AB 1288 (Chapter 89, Statutes of 1991), AB 1491 (Chapter 611, Statutes of 1991), and related legislation have significantly altered fiscal and management relationships between the State of California and its counties and within counties in the areas of social services, mental health, and public health programs; and WHEREAS, Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 17600) of Part 5 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code establishes a Local Revenue Fund and requires counties to establish a local health and welfare trust fund to receive funds from the Local Revenue Fund; and WHEREAS, Section 17600 of the Welfare and Institutions Code requires a mental health account, a social services account, and a health account within the local health and welfare trust fund and prescribes criteria for reallocating money among the three accounts; and WHEREAS, Section 5500.9(c) of the Welfare and Institutions Code expressly encourages counties to develop interagency programs and to blend services and funds for individuals with multiple problems; and WHEREAS, the Butte County Board of Supervisors finds it in the public interest to formally establish a coordinating structure to manage the interaction among social services, mental health, and public health programs and funding; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Butte County Board of Supervisors directs the Auditor-Controller to establish and maintain the Butte County Health and Welfare Trust Fund pursuant to Chapter 6 of Part 5 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, said fund to be comprised of a Social Services Account, a Mental Health Account, and a Health Account. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVER, that the Butte County Human Services Coordinating Council is established with two supporting committees, the Eligibility Integration Committee and the Program Integration Committee, with purposes, memberships, meetings, and procedures as follow: COORDINATING COUNCIL PURPOSE. The Butte County Human Services Coordinating Council is established for the following purposes: 1. To ensure that the Social Welfare, Mental Health, and Public Health Departments and the Health and Welfare Trust Fund are managed and administered in accordance with applicable law. 2. To consider and coordinate such actions as may be in the public interest to improve interagency administration, equity, efficiency, or effectiveness of social services, mental health, and public health programs. 3. To coordinate interagency Social Welfare, Mental Health, and Public Health programs and to blend such program services and funds for individuals with multiple problems. ~. To identify appropriate reallocations of monies among Health and Welfare Trust Fund accounts when it is in the public interest to do so. ELIGIBILITY INTEGRATION COMMITTEE PURPOSE. The Eligibility Integration Committee of the Human Services Coordinating Council is established for the following purposes: 1. Recommend to the Human Services Coordinating Council procedures to ensure that individuals eligible for participation in programs administered by more than one of the said departments are offered the opportunity to benefit from all such programs. 2. Recommend to the Human Services Coordinating Council a systematic approach for evaluating the success of multiple- 2 eligibility integration procedures, and report to the Council the results of the efforts. 3. Accomplish such other eligibility-related activity as may be directed by the Human Services Coordinating Council. PROGRAM INTEGRATION COMMITTEE PURP08E. The Program Integration Committee of the Human Services Coordinating Council is established for the following purposes: 1. Recommend to the Human Services Coordinating Council procedures to enhance the interaction or integration of programs among the said departments to the benefit of individuals with multiple problems. 2. Recommend to the Human Services Coordinating Council a systematic approach for evaluating the success of program interaction and integration procedures, and report to the Council the results of the efforts. 3. Accomplish such other program-related activity as may be directed by the Human Services Coordinating Council. COORDINATING COUNCIL MEMBERSHIP. The membership of the Human Services Coordinating Council shall consist of voting and nonvoting members as follows: 1. Voting members are the Butte County Directors of Social Welfare, Mental Health, and Public Health, or their duly designated and fully empowered representatives. 2. Nonvoting members are the Butte County Chief Administrative Officer (Chair) and Auditor-Controller, or their duly designated representatives, and the Chairs of the Eligibility Integration and Program Integration Committees. ELIGIBILITY INTEGRATION COMMITTEE. The membership of the Eligibility Integration Committee shall consist of voting members appointed by the Directors of Social Services, Mental Health, and Public Health. The committee shall be chaired by a member appointed as such by the Human Services Coordinating Council. 3 PROGRAM INTEGRATION COMMITTEE. The membership of the Program Integration Committee shall consist of voting members appointed by the Directors of Social Services, Mental Health, and Public Health. The committee shall be chaired by a member appointed as such by the Human Services Coordinating Council. NlEETINGB. The Human Services Coordinating Council shall regularly meet at least once each calendar quarter at a time and place designated by the Chair in coordination with the voting members. Special meetings may be called by the Chair, the Auditor- Controller, or by any voting member. A quorum for a Council meeting shall consist of all three voting members or their duly designated and fully empowered representatives, and the Chair. Any official action taken by the Council shall be by a majority of voting members or their duly designated representatives. PROCEDURES. The Human Services Coordinating 'Council is empowered to promulgate operating procedures and bylaws to govern its internal operations, the operations of the Eligibility Integration and Program Integration Committees, and such other committees or subcommittees it might establish to attain the purposes of this resolution. Any operating procedures or bylaws promulgated by the Council shall not conflict with the following Board of Supervisors policy guidance: 1. The Chief Administrative Officer shall provide administrative support for Council meetings and actions but may require members to provide documentary support. 2. The Auditar-Controller shall concur or nonconcur on all funding-related Council actions. 3. All proposed Council actions which exceed the normal executive authority of the voting members, individually or severally, shall be submitted to the Chief Administrative officer who shall consider the proposed action and make his own recommendation thereon in writing to be placed on the Board of Supervisors' agenda. 4 4. No funds shall be transferred among Health and Welfare Trust Fund accounts without a recommendation and report thereon by the Chief Administrative officer and approval of the Board of Supervisors. 5. No interagency program action shall be implemented without unanimous approval of the voting members of the Human Services Coordinating Council unless approved by the Board of Supervisors. 6. For any recommendation with less than unanimous approval of the voting members of the Human Services Coordinating Council, the dissenting voting member shall be afforded the opportunity to attach a written dissent. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Butte, State of California, this 19th day of NovemhPr , 1991 by the following vote: AYES: Supervisors McInturf, Houx, t~cLaugh7in, Fulton and Chair Doi an NOES: None ABSENT: None NOT VOTING: None JADE ~DOLAN; Chair, B Board of Supervisors ATTEST: WILLIAM! H. RADIDOLPH, CTiref~Administrative Officer and Cler f the Board By: Clerk/Deputy 5