DATE: December 4, 2018
TO: Board of Supervisors
SUBMITTED BY: Delfino E. Neira, Director, Department of Social Services
SUBJECT: Disaster CalFresh Mutual Aid Memorandum of Understanding
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
TITLE
Approve and authorize the Chairman to execute a Memorandum of Understanding with valley regional counties to formalize protocols for Disaster CalFresh mutual aid support and services, effective upon execution through October 31, 2022, which includes a three-year base agreement and one optional one-year extension ($0).
REPORT
Approval of the recommended action satisfies the requirement created through the Community Resiliency and Disaster Preparedness Act of 2017 (Assembly Bill 607) and outlined in the Welfare and Institutions Code section 18917(a)(2) to participate in a Disaster CalFresh mutual aid region consisting of two or more counties. The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is written with purposefully flexible language to (1) grant counties the leeway necessary to seek assistance from and respond to the unique circumstances of each declared disaster and (2) prevent counties from obligating themselves to requests they cannot fulfill. Additionally, participation in the MOU does not preclude the county from seeking disaster assistance from a county not participating in the MOU. The MOU's provisions relate to the operation of a Disaster CalFresh program, which occurs only after the President of the United States has made a declaration for individual assistance in the affected disaster area. This item is countywide.
ALTERNATIVE ACTION(S):
There is no viable alternative action. The Department must participate in a mutual aid region prior to the submission of the Federal Fiscal Year 2020 Disaster CalFresh plan in 2019.
FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no increase in Net County Cost associated with the recommended action. There is no cost associated with the MOU itself and approval of the recommended action does not obligate the Department to provide disa...
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