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deliberations. As follow up, the BOCC approved the County management proposal regarding <br />the HSAC role, including an outside agency funding target for HSAC to work within, in January <br />2008. <br />Actions leading to the recommendations being presented are summarized below. <br />BOCC Charge to the Human Services Advisory Commission (HSAC) <br />The new role of HSAC, with administrative support and guidance from County staff, is to solicit, <br />review, rate, and recommend agency funding levels directly to the BOCC. <br />With direction from the BOCC, HSAC drafted an Orange County Human Services Agency <br />Application Scorecard and Narrative Criteria as evaluation tools. The Scorecard and Narrative <br />was approved by the BOCC in January 2008 with minor modification and is shown in <br />Attachment 1. <br />Timeline <br />The outside agency grant making process kicked off with an Orientation and Training Session <br />for interested grant seekers in December 2007, more than a month sooner than years past. <br />Completed applications were due in mid-February 2008. A total of 52 applications were <br />received with requests, if fully funded, totaling $ $1,736,133. Stan Holt, Community Impact <br />Specialist, Triangle United Way led an Application Evaluation Training Session -including <br />ethics, confidentiality, and outcomes measurement -using the new Scorecard and Narrative for <br />HSAC members and County staff in February 2008. <br />In March 2008 HSAC held a work session led by Margaret Henderson, facilitator and educator <br />on non profit funding with the School of Government, to review application ratings and achieve <br />consensus on agency funding allocations to recommend to the BOCC. <br />Annual Outside Agency Funding -Funding Amount <br />The annual amount allocated to outside agency funding has remained relatively stable through <br />the years. In FY2007-08 the BOCC appropriated $2,073,662 or about 1.2% of the total General <br />Fund budget to outside agencies with a human services focus, compared to $1,905,317, about <br />1.1 % of the total General Fund budget, in the previous year. (NOTE: Amounts and <br />percentages do not include amounts reserved for the last few years in the Critical Needs <br />Reserve:) <br />In November 2007 the BOCC agreed to establish early in the annual budget planning process a <br />percentage of the total General Fund as the target amount for outside agencies with a human <br />services focus. The percentage designated by the BOCC for implementation beginning <br />FY2008-09 was 1.2% of the total General Fund. Using this formula, Budget provided HSAC in <br />March 2008 with a target amount of $1,809,600 for possible distribution among the competing <br />outside agency requests for BOCC approval in the FY2008-09 budget. <br />2 <br />