SF 352

1st Engrossment - 79th Legislature (1995 - 1996) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to employment; modifying provisions relating 
  1.3             to community action agencies; amending Minnesota 
  1.4             Statutes 1994, sections 268.52, subdivisions 1 and 2; 
  1.5             268.53, subdivisions 1a and 2; and 268.54, subdivision 
  1.6             2. 
  1.7   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.8      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 268.52, 
  1.9   subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
  1.10     Subdivision 1.  [AUTHORIZATION.] The commissioner of 
  1.11  economic security may provide financial assistance for community 
  1.12  action agencies, Indian reservations and the statewide 
  1.13  migrant and seasonal farmworker organization known as the 
  1.14  Minnesota migrant council to carry out community action programs 
  1.15  as described in section 268.54 in accordance with the omnibus 
  1.16  reconciliation act of 1981, Public Law Number 97-35, as 
  1.17  amended in 1984, Public Law Number 98-558, state law, and 
  1.18  federal law and regulation. 
  1.19     Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 268.52, 
  1.20  subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
  1.21     Subd. 2.  [ALLOCATION OF MONEY.] (a) State money 
  1.22  appropriated and community service block grant money allotted to 
  1.23  the state and all money transferred to the community service 
  1.24  block grant from other block grants shall be allocated annually 
  1.25  to community action agencies and Indian reservation governments 
  1.26  under clauses (b) and (c), and to the Minnesota migrant council 
  2.1   statewide migrant and seasonal farmworker organization under 
  2.2   clause (d). 
  2.3      (b) The available annual money will provide base funding to 
  2.4   all community action agencies and the Indian reservations.  Base 
  2.5   funding amounts per agency are as follows:  for agencies with 
  2.6   low income populations up to 3,999, $25,000; 4,000 to 23,999, 
  2.7   $50,000; and 24,000 or more, $100,000. 
  2.8      (c) All remaining money of the annual money available after 
  2.9   the base funding has been determined must be allocated to each 
  2.10  agency and reservation in proportion to the size of the poverty 
  2.11  level population in the agency's service area compared to the 
  2.12  size of the poverty level population in the state.  
  2.13     (d) Allocation of money to the Minnesota migrant 
  2.14  council statewide migrant and seasonal farmworker organization 
  2.15  must not exceed three percent of the total annual money 
  2.16  available.  Base funding allocations must be made for all 
  2.17  community action agencies and Indian reservations that received 
  2.18  money under this subdivision, in fiscal year 1984, and for 
  2.19  community action agencies designated under this section with a 
  2.20  service area population of 35,000 or greater. 
  2.21     Sec. 3.  Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 268.53, 
  2.22  subdivision 1a, is amended to read: 
  2.23     Subd. 1a.  [DESIGNATION AND RECOGNITION.] To obtain 
  2.24  recognition by the governor a community action agency must be 
  2.25  designated by a political subdivision having jurisdiction over 
  2.26  the entire area to be served by the agency.  To designate a 
  2.27  community action agency, the political subdivision must hold a 
  2.28  public hearing, pass a resolution to designate, and file a 
  2.29  "notice of intent to designate" and eligibility documents with 
  2.30  the state office department of economic opportunity security for 
  2.31  final review and authorization for a new community action agency.
  2.32     Sec. 4.  Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 268.53, 
  2.33  subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
  2.34     Subd. 2.  [ADMINISTERING BOARD.] Each community action 
  2.35  agency shall administer its community action programs through a 
  2.36  community action board consisting of 15 to 51 members. 
  3.1      (a) One-third of the members of the board shall be elected 
  3.2   public officials, currently holding office, or their 
  3.3   representatives. 
  3.4      (b) At least one-third of the members shall be persons 
  3.5   chosen in accordance with democratic selection procedures 
  3.6   adequate to assure that they are representative of the poor in 
  3.7   the area served. 
  3.8      (c) The other members shall be officials or members of 
  3.9   business, industry, labor, religious, welfare, education, or 
  3.10  other major groups and interests in the community.  Each member 
  3.11  of the board selected to represent a specific geographic area 
  3.12  within a community must reside in the area represented. 
  3.13     (d) The public community action agency shall have an 
  3.14  administering board which meets the requirements of this 
  3.15  subdivision.  
  3.16     (e) The statewide migrant and seasonal farmworker 
  3.17  organization known as the Minnesota migrant council and Indian 
  3.18  reservations carrying out community action programs are exempt 
  3.19  from the board composition requirements of this subdivision. 
  3.20     Sec. 5.  Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 268.54, 
  3.21  subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
  3.22     Subd. 2.  [COMPONENTS.] The components of a community 
  3.23  action program shall be designed to assist participants, 
  3.24  including homeless individuals and families, migrants, and the 
  3.25  elderly poor to achieve increased self-sufficiency and greater 
  3.26  participation in the affairs of the community by providing 
  3.27  services and programs not sufficiently provided in the community 
  3.28  by any governmental unit, any public institution, or any other 
  3.29  publicly funded agency or corporation.  Community action 
  3.30  agencies, governmental units, public institutions or other 
  3.31  publicly funded agencies or corporations shall consult on 
  3.32  whether or not a program or service is sufficiently provided in 
  3.33  the community.