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At <br />i <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: October 16, 1990 <br />SUBJECT: Repatriation Program Grant Project <br />DEPARTMENT Budget <br />ATTACHMENT(S) <br />Proposed Grant Project Ordinance <br />Section 1113 of the Social Security <br />Act <br />HHS Regional Administrator's Memo <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No x- C. <br />PUBLIC HEARING YES NO x <br />INFORMATION CONTACT <br />Rod Visser, ext 2450 <br />Marty Pryor -Cook, ext 2803 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBER <br />Hillsborough 732 -8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968 -4501 <br />Mebane 227 -2031 <br />Durham 688 -7331 <br />PURPOSE: To adopt a grant project ordinance authorizing expenditures <br />for the federally funded Repatriation Program to be administered by the <br />Department of Social Services. <br />BACKGROUND: On Wednesday, October 10, 1990, the Orange County <br />Department of Social Services was notified by the North Carolina <br />Department of Human Resources that it had been designated to <br />participate in the federally mandated Repatriation Program. This <br />program involves temporary assistance to United States citizens <br />fleeing the threat of war in the Persian Gulf, and their dependents. <br />To date, several plane loads of eligible individuals have arrived at <br />Raleigh- Durham International Airport. Another was scheduled to arrive <br />on October 11. <br />The US government has determined that many of the families involved are <br />to be resettled in the Research Triangle area. Families are eligible <br />as long as at least one family member (in many cases a child born in <br />the US while parents were enrolled in a university) is an American <br />citizen. The program serves the families for ninety days and requires <br />that participants fully repay the US government for the temporary <br />resettlement assistance provided them. The County expects to serve 4 <br />or 5 families at an estimated cost of $5,000 each, although the exact <br />number of participants and program cost is uncertain due to the fluid <br />nature of the situation. The County will provide casework to these <br />families with existing staff resources, and has been informed that it <br />will be fully reimbursed by the federal government for program payments <br />made on behalf of eligible individuals and for direct and indirect <br />A t <br />a minis rative costs incurred in implementing the program. <br />The attached grant project ordinance would authorize the program and <br />reimbursable County expenditures of up to $25,000 for the program. <br />RECOMMENDATION(S): Adopt the proposed grant project ordinance. <br />