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House Journal: Page 1050: Monday, March 30, 1998

44     The Iowa board shall perform the following duties:
45     1.  Perform duties relating to community
46   empowerment areas.
47     2.  Oversee the provision of grant funding and
48   other moneys made available to community empowerment
49   areas by combining all or portions of appropriations
50   or other revenues as authorized by law.

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 1     3.  Develop advanced community empowerment area
 2   arrangements for those community empowerment areas
 3   which were formed in transition from an innovation
 4   zone or from a decategorization governance board or
 5   which otherwise provide evidence of extensive
 6   successful experience in managing services and funding
 7   with high levels of community support and input.
 8     4.  Identify boards, commissions, committees, and
 9   other bodies in state government with overlapping and
10   similar purposes which contribute to redundancy and
11   fragmentation in education, health, and human services
12   programs provided to the public.  The board shall also
13   make recommendations to the governor and general
14   assembly as appropriate for increasing coordination
15   between these bodies, for consolidation where
16   appropriate, and for integration of functions to
17   achieve improved results.
18     5.  Assist with the linkage of child welfare and
19   juvenile justice decategorization projects with
20   community empowerment areas.
21     6.  Integrate the duties relating to innovation
22   zones in the place of the innovation zone board
23   created in section 8A.2, Code 1997, until the Iowa
24   board determines the innovation zones have been
25   replaced with community empowerment areas.
26     7.  Coordinate and respond to any requests from a
27   community board relating to any of the following:
28     a.  Waiver of existing rules, federal regulation,
29   or amendment of state law, or removal of other
30   barriers.
31     b.  Pooling and redirecting of existing federal,
32   state, or other public or private funds.
33     c.  Seeking of federal waivers.
34     In coordinating and responding to the requests, the
35   Iowa board shall work with state agencies and submit
36   proposals to the governor and general assembly as
37   necessary to fulfill requests deemed appropriate by
38   the Iowa board.
39     8.  Provide for maximum flexibility and creativity
40   in the designation and administration of the
41   responsibilities and authority of community
42   empowerment areas.
43     9.  Adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A as

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