                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ADMINISTRATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION BUDGET (§ 2.2-5408)

The designated agency shall adopt regulations detailing the formula for the
distribution of community action program budget funds. The regulations shall
take into consideration the distribution of low-income persons residing in the
service areas of the community action agencies, the relative cost of living of
the areas, as well as other factors considered appropriate.		Each community
action agency and community action statewide organization annually shall develop
and submit a program budget request for funds appropriated from the community
action program budget. The designated agency shall publish annually guidelines
detailing the nature and extent of information required in the program budget
request for the succeeding fiscal year.		In order to carry out its overall
responsibility for planning, coordinating, evaluating and administering a
community action program, a community action agency may under its charter or
applicable laws receive and administer funds pursuant to this chapter. The
community action agency may receive and administer funds and contributions from
private or public sources that may be used in support of a community action
agency or program and funds under any federal or state assistance program
pursuant to which a public or private nonprofit agency organized in accordance
with this chapter could act as grantee, contractor or sponsor of projects
appropriate for inclusion in a community action program. A community action
agency or community action statewide organization may transfer funds so received
between components and to delegate funds to other agencies subject to the powers
of its governing board and its overall program responsibilities.		In accordance
with the requirements of the federal Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981
(Public Law 97-35), the designated agency in cooperation with community action
agencies and community action statewide organizations, shall develop a state
plan for submission annually by the Governor to the Secretary of Health and
Human Services.		Community action agencies and community action statewide
organizations shall provide the designated agency with quarterly financial and
program reports.		Funds received in the Community Services Block Grant pursuant
to the federal Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (Public Law 97-35)
shall be expended in support of the purposes of this chapter as follows:

1. Ninety percent of the funds received in the Community Services Block Grant
shall be used for the development and implementation of programs and projects
designed by community action agencies to serve poor or low-income areas of the
Commonwealth in accordance with a formula approved by the Governor for the first
year of the Community Services Block Grant and thereafter biennially by the
General Assembly.

2. No more than five percent of the funds received in the Community Services
Block Grant shall be used for administration of the duties required by this
chapter of the designated agency.

3. At least five percent of the funds received in the Community Services Block
Grant shall be used to support community action activities conducted by
community action statewide organizations.

HISTORY: 1982, c. 667, § 2.1-598; 2001, c. 844.