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r <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: April 8, 20110 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. <br /> SUBJECT: Proposed Guidelines for Funding Outside Agencies, FY 2010-11 <br /> DEPARTMENT: County Manager's Office PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br /> Financial Services <br /> ATTACHMENTS): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> A. Revised Outside Agency Performance Gwen Harvey, Assistant County <br /> Agreements and Reporting Manager, 245-2307 <br /> Procedures Clarence Grier Financial Services <br /> B. FY 2010-11 Outside Agency Funding Director, 245-2453 <br /> Requests Annette Moore Count Attorney's County y Office, <br /> C. FY 2009-10 Outside Agency 245-2317 <br /> Processes and Allocations for Ton a Walton Budget and Management <br /> Neighboring Jurisdictions Analyst, 245-2150 <br /> PURPOSE: <br /> To present background information on how the County has recently addressed funding <br /> decisions for annual appropriations to outside (private, not-for profit) agencies, approaches <br /> employed by neighboring jurisdictions, and how the County management has been transitioning <br /> the process for the upcoming fiscal year. <br /> BACKGROUND: <br /> The Board of County Commissioners approved and County management implemented certain <br /> changes in the outside agency grant application process during FY2008-2009: <br /> 1) The grant application solicitation began in December, one month earlier. <br /> 2) The BOCC agreed in advance to establish a target percentage of the General Fund to be <br /> made available for allocation to outside agencies. The target percentage for FY2008- <br /> 2009 was 1.2%, or $1,809,600 for possible distribution among competing outside agency <br /> requests. (Due to financial constraints, the final BOCC adopted budget appropriated a <br /> total of $1,368,413, or 0.7% of the General Fund distributed among a total of forty-three <br /> (43) agencies.) <br /> 3) The BOCC charged the Human Services Advisory Commission (HSAC) with preparing <br /> and presenting its own outside agency funding recommendations directly to the BOCC. In <br /> the past, HSAC :shared an advisory only role with County Departments and the County <br /> Manager. HSAC drafted and the BOCC approved an application scorecard and narrative <br /> criteria as evaluation tools for this purpose. <br />