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1 <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: June 11, 2013 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 3 <br />SUBJECT: Outside Agencies: FY 2013 -14 Manager Recommended Allocations <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No <br />Finance & Administrative <br />Services <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />A. Application Evaluation Assignments <br />B. Outside Agency Funding: Feedback <br />and Direction <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Frank Clifton, County Manager <br />245 -2300 <br />Clarence Grier, Assistant County <br />Manager /Chief Financial Officer, <br />245 -2450 <br />PURPOSE: <br />To present the County Manager's recommendations for the FY 2013 -14 Outside Agency (non- <br />profit) Funding Process. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />The County Manager's Office annually solicits funding applications from the Outside Agency <br />community. In January 2013, the County received 56 applications with requests totaling <br />$1,549,923, an increase of $511,223 over the current year's allocation. <br />Staff distributed applications to staff and advisory board groups, for review (Attachment A). <br />County Department Directors and their advisory boards received applications related to their <br />functional areas. The Employee Committee evaluated community -based service agencies that <br />did not align with a particular County department (e.g. Communities in Schools). Members of <br />the County Management team and Finance and Administrative Services staff reviewed mental <br />health agencies and selected overflow applications. Recommendations made by the advisory <br />groups were for consultative purposes, only. The County Manager reviewed the evaluators' <br />comments and the applications, consulted with County management Staff and then proposed <br />allocations. All parties used the Board of County Commissioner's (BOCC) guiding principles, <br />adopted in December 2010, to evaluate programs and propose funding recommendations <br />(Attachment B). <br />For FY 2013 -14, the County Manager recommends funding 38 agencies for a total $1,030,100. <br />The FY 2013 -14 Manager's Recommended Operating Budget contains a complete list of <br />funding requests, recommendations and descriptions, within the Outside Agency section (page <br />209). <br />