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House Journal: Page 1053: Monday, March 30, 1998

44   decategorization project, coordinate planning and
45   budgeting with the decategorization governing board.
46   By mutual agreement between the community board and
47   the decategorization governance board, the community
48   board may assume the duties of the decategorization
49   governance board or the decategorization governance
50   board may continue as a committee of the community

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 1   board.
 2     d.  Assume other responsibilities established by
 3   law or administrative rule.
 4     2.  A community board may do any of the following:
 5     a.  Designate one or more committees for oversight
 6   of grant moneys awarded to the community empowerment
 7   area.
 8     b.  Function as a coordinating body for services
 9   offered by different entities directed to similar
10   purposes within the community empowerment area.
11     c.  Develop neighborhood bodies for community-level
12   input to the community board and implementation of
13   services.
14     Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  7I.7  SCHOOL READY
15   CHILDREN GRANT PROGRAM - ESTABLISHMENT AND
16   ADMINISTRATION.
17     1.  The departments of education, human services,
18   and public health shall jointly develop and promote a
19   school ready children grant program which shall
20   provide for all of the following components:
21     a.  Identify the core indicators of performance
22   that will be used to assess the effectiveness of the
23   school ready children grants, including increasing the
24   basic skill levels of students entering school,
25   increasing the health status of children, reducing the
26   incidence of child abuse and neglect, increasing the
27   access of children to an adult mentor, increasing
28   parental involvement with their children, and
29   increasing the quality and accessibility of child day
30   care.
31     b.  Identify guidelines and a process to be used
32   for determining the readiness of a community
33   empowerment area for administering school ready
34   children grants.
35     c.  Provide for technical assistance concerning
36   funding sources, program design, and other pertinent
37   areas.
38     2.  The program developed and components identified
39   under subsection 1 are subject to approval by the Iowa
40   empowerment board.  The Iowa empowerment board shall
41   provide maximum flexibility to grantees for the use of
42   the grant moneys included in a school ready children
43   grant.

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