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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. Mare. <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: August 17, 1993 <br /> SUBJECT: Memorandum Renewal with North State Legal Services <br /> DEPARTMENT: Aging PUBLIC HEARING YES: NO: X <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: Jerry Passmore <br /> Memorandum of Agreement <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBER- <br /> Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Chapel Hill - 968-4501 <br /> Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Durham - 688-7331 <br /> extension 2000 <br /> PURPOSE: <br /> To request approval to renew Memorandum of Agreement with North State <br /> Legal Services for the provision of legal counseling and assistance <br /> for Orange County residents sixty years and older who exceed North <br /> State's income eligibility guidelines but who cannot afford to seek <br /> legal services from the private sector. <br /> BACKGROUND: <br /> The Older Americans Act, whose funds are distributed to this County <br /> through contract with Triangle J Council of Governments, requires that <br /> a percentage of those funds be used to provide legal services. The <br /> required expenditure in Orange County, as proposed for the FY 94 <br /> contract, is $1,539. The Department on Aging has already budgeted the <br /> $171 of required local match. North State Legal Services has agreed to <br /> provide the service at a rate of $25 per service unit hour. This will <br /> be the fifth year of such a working agreement between the Department and <br /> North <br /> State. <br /> RECOMMENDATION(S) : <br /> Manager recommends approval and requests Chair to sign Memorandum. <br /> FN:ABS93#03.DOC <br />