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PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 28.3, subsection 2, Code Supplement 1 2 1999, is amended to read as follows: 1 3 2. The Iowa board shall consist offifteenseventeen 1 4 voting members withtwelvethirteen citizen members andthree1 5 four state agency members. Thethreefour state agency 1 6 members shall be the directors of the following departments: 1 7 education, human rights, human services, and public health. 1 8 Thetwelvethirteen citizen members shall be appointed by the 1 9 governor, subject to confirmation by the senate. The 1 10 governor's appointments of citizen members shall be made in a 1 11 manner so that each of the state's congressional districts is 1 12 represented by two citizen members and so that all the 1 13 appointments as a whole reflect the ethnic, cultural, social, 1 14 and economic diversity of the state. The governor's 1 15 appointees shall be selected from individuals nominated by 1 16 community empowerment area boards. The nominations shall 1 17 reflect the range of interests represented on the community 1 18 boards so that the governor is able to appoint one or more 1 19 members each for education, health, human services, business, 1 20 faith, and public interests. At least one of the citizen 1 21 members shall be a service consumer or the parent of a service 1 22 consumer. Terms of office of all citizen members are three 1 23 years. A vacancy on the board shall be filled in the same 1 24 manner as the original appointment for the balance of the 1 25 unexpired term. 1 26 Sec. 2. Section 28.4, subsection 12, paragraph d, 1 27 unnumbered paragraph 1, Code Supplement 1999, is amended to 1 28 read as follows: 1 29 The Iowa empowerment board shall regularly make information 1 30 available identifying community empowerment funding and 1 31 funding distributed through the funding streams listed under 1 32 this paragraph "d" to communities. It is the intent of the 1 33 general assembly that the community empowerment area boards 1 34 and the administrators of the programs located within the 1 35 community empowerment areas that are supported by the listed 2 1 funding streams shall fully cooperate with one another on or 2 2 before the indicated fiscal years, in order to avoid 2 3 duplication, enhance efforts, combine planning, and take other 2 4 steps to best utilize the funding to meet the needs of the 2 5 families in the areas. The agencies involved with the 2 6 programs shall work with the community empowerment areas and 2 7 the local entities providing the programs to outline the 2 8 efforts for full cooperation in a written agreement. The 2 9 community empowerment area boards and the administrators shall 2 10 annually submit a report concerning such efforts and a copy of 2 11 the written agreement to the community empowerment office. If 2 12 a community empowerment area is receiving a school ready 2 13 children grant, this report shall be an addendum to the annual 2 14 report required under section 28.8. The state community 2 15 empowerment facilitator shall compile and summarize the 2 16 reports which shall be submitted to the governor, general 2 17 assembly, and Iowa board. The funding streams shall include 2 18 all of the following: 2 19 Sec. 3. Section 28.8, subsection 4, Code Supplement 1999, 2 20 is amended to read as follows: 2 21 4. The community board shall submit an annual report on 2 22 the effectiveness of the grant program in addressing school 2 23 readiness and children's health and safety needs to the Iowa 2 24 empowerment board and to the local governing bodies. The 2 25 annual report shallindicatedescribe the effectiveness of the 2 26 community board in achieving state and locally determined 2 27 goals by reporting the community empowerment area's status 2 28 with the statewide indicators established by the Iowa board 2 29 and with the community-specific performance indicators 2 30 submitted in the grant plan. 2 31 Sec. 4. Section 28.8, subsection 5, paragraph a, Code 2 32 Supplement 1999, is amended to read as follows: 2 33 a. A school ready children grant shall be awarded to a 2 34 community boardfor a three-year period, with annual payments2 35made to the community boardon an annual basis. The Iowa 3 1 empowerment board may grant an extension from the award date 3 2 and any application deadlines based upon the award date, to 3 3 allow for a later implementation date in theinitialyear in 3 4 which a community board submits a comprehensive school ready 3 5 grant plan to the Iowa empowerment board. However, receipt of 3 6 continued funding is subject to submission of the required 3 7 annual report and the Iowa board's determination that the 3 8 community board is measuring, through the use of performance 3 9 indicators developed by the Iowa board with input from 3 10 community boards, progress toward and is achieving the desired 3 11 results identified in the grant plan. If progress is not 3 12 measured through the use of performance indicators toward 3 13 achieving the identified results, the Iowa board may request a 3 14 plan of corrective action or may withdraw grant funding. 3 15 Sec. 5. Section 28.8, subsection 5, paragraph b, Code 3 16 Supplement 1999, is amended to read as follows: 3 17 b. The Iowa board shall distribute school ready children 3 18 grant moneys to community boards with approved comprehensive 3 19 school ready children grant plans based upon a determination 3 20 of readiness of the community empowerment area to effectively 3 21 utilize the moneys, with the grant moneys being adjusted for3 22other federal and state grant moneys to be received by the3 23area for services to children from birth through five years of3 24age. 3 25 Sec. 6. Section 28.8, subsection 5, paragraph d, Code 3 26 Supplement 1999, is amended by striking the paragraph. 3 27 Sec. 7. NEW SECTION. 28.8A SCHOOL READY CHILDREN GRANT 3 28 FUNDING FORMULA. 3 29 1. For the purposes of this section, unless the context 3 30 otherwise requires, "federal poverty level" means the federal 3 31 poverty level as defined by the most recently revised poverty 3 32 income guidelines published by the United States department of 3 33 health and human services. 3 34 2. A distribution formula is established for allocation of 3 35 school ready children grant funding appropriated for a fiscal 4 1 year. The distribution formula factors shall be applied to 4 2 all counties in the state and the resulting individual county 4 3 amounts shall be combined to conform with the county area or 4 4 areas participating in a community empowerment area. 4 5 3. A community empowerment area must have an official 4 6 designation in good standing from the Iowa empowerment board 4 7 and comply with other requirements applicable to community 4 8 empowerment areas and school ready children grant funding in 4 9 order to maintain eligibility for the area's allocation. 4 10 4. A county's allocation from the amount available for 4 11 grant funding distribution in a fiscal year shall be 4 12 equivalent to the sum of the amounts determined pursuant to 4 13 the following three percentage factors: 4 14 a. Forty-five percent based upon the proportion that the 4 15 county's population of children from birth through age five 4 16 whose family income is equal to or less than one hundred 4 17 eighty-five percent of the federal poverty level bears to the 4 18 state's population of children in that same age group and 4 19 income level. 4 20 b. Thirty-five percent based upon the proportion that the 4 21 county's population of children from birth through age five 4 22 bears to the state's general population of children in that 4 23 age group. 4 24 c. An amount determined by equally dividing among all 4 25 counties twenty percent of the amount available for 4 26 distribution in that fiscal year. 4 27 5. It is the intent of the general assembly to implement a 4 28 practice of appropriating for school ready children grant 4 29 funding during the fiscal year that occurs two years in 4 30 advance of the fiscal year to which the appropriation applies. 4 31 Sec. 8. FUNDING FORMULA – FISCAL YEAR 2000-2001. 4 32 1. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2000, the 4 33 department of management shall apply the funding formula 4 34 described in section 28.8A, as enacted by this Act, to the 4 35 entire amount available in that fiscal year for distribution 5 1 for school ready children grants. However, the formula shall 5 2 only be used to establish an allocation amount for those 5 3 community empowerment areas that have never been awarded a 5 4 school ready children grant as of June 30, 2000. For 5 5 designated community empowerment areas that have never been 5 6 awarded a school ready children grant as of June 30, 2000, the 5 7 allocation amount for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2000, 5 8 shall be adjusted so that the total of the allocations for 5 9 those areas is equivalent to the amount available for 5 10 distribution to those areas after distribution of grant moneys 5 11 to areas previously approved for a school ready children 5 12 grant. The adjustment amount for those areas shall be in 5 13 proportion to the amount an individual allocation bears to the 5 14 total of the allocations for those areas. The grant period 5 15 for those areas for that fiscal year shall be adjusted 5 16 relative to the amount available for distribution to those 5 17 areas in proportion to the amount an individual allocation 5 18 bears to the total of the allocations for those areas. 5 19 Sec. 9. IOWA EMPOWERMENT BOARD NOMINEES. Community 5 20 empowerment boards are encouraged to act expeditiously to 5 21 submit nominees for the governor's appointment of citizen 5 22 members to the Iowa empowerment board in order to fulfill the 5 23 requirements under section 28.3 for the board to include 5 24 representatives of business, faith, and other interests. 5 25 Sec. 10. INITIAL FIVE-YEAR PLAN. The initial five-year 5 26 plan required under section 28.4, subsection 12, paragraph 5 27 "a", for consolidating, blending, and redistributing state- 5 28 administered funding streams for children from birth through 5 29 age five made available to community empowerment area boards 5 30 shall be completed on or before December 15, 2000. Along with 5 31 the initial plan, the Iowa empowerment board shall develop 5 32 recommendations providing implementation options for the plan. 5 33 The options shall include but are not limited to a negotiation 5 34 process for the state, community boards, and local entities 5 35 receiving the funding streams for the children to identify how 6 1 the funding streams will be utilized within a community 6 2 empowerment area. The initial plan and the recommendations 6 3 shall be submitted to the governor and general assembly on or 6 4 before the completion date identified in this section. 6 5 Sec. 11. EFFECTIVE DATE. Section 9 of this Act, relating 6 6 to Iowa empowerment board nominees, being deemed of immediate 6 7 importance, takes effect upon enactment. 6 8 SF 2341 6 9 jp/cc/26
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