1999 Minnesota Statutes

     256J.62 Allocation of county employment and training 
  services block grant. 

    Subdivision 1.    Allocation.  Money appropriated for 
 MFIP employment and training services must be allocated to 
 counties and eligible tribal providers as specified in this 
 section. 

    Subd. 2. Repealed, 1999 c 245 art 6 s 89 

    Subd. 2a.    Caseload-based funds allocation.  Effective 
 for state fiscal year 2000, and for all subsequent years, money 
 shall be allocated to counties and eligible tribal providers 
 based on their average number of MFIP cases as a proportion of 
 the statewide total number of MFIP cases:  

    (1) the average number of cases must be based upon counts 
 of MFIP or tribal TANF cases as of March 31, June 30, September 
 30, and December 31 of the previous calendar year, less the 
 number of child only cases and cases where all the caregivers 
 are age 60 or over.  Two-parent cases, with the exception of 
 those with a caregiver age 60 or over, will be multiplied by a 
 factor of two; 

    (2) the MFIP or tribal TANF case count for each eligible 
 tribal provider shall be based upon the number of MFIP or tribal 
 TANF cases who are enrolled in, or are eligible for enrollment 
 in the tribe; and the case must be an active MFIP case; and the 
 case members must reside within the tribal program's service 
 delivery area; 

    (3) MFIP or tribal TANF cases counted for determining 
 allocations to tribal providers shall be removed from the case 
 counts of the respective counties where they reside to prevent 
 duplicate counts; 

    (4) prior to allocating funds to counties and tribal 
 providers, $1,000,000 shall be set aside to allow the 
 commissioner to use these set-aside funds to provide funding to 
 county or tribal providers who experience an unforeseen influx 
 of participants or other emergent situations beyond their 
 control; and 

    (5) the commissioner shall use a portion of the funds in 
 clause (4) to offset a reduction in funds allocated to any 
 county between state fiscal year 1999 and state fiscal year 2000 
 that results from the adjustment in clause (3).  The funding 
 provided under this clause must reduce by half the reduction for 
 state fiscal year 2000 that any county would otherwise 
 experience in the absence of this clause. 

 Any funds specified in this clause that remain unspent by March 
 31 of each year shall be reallocated out to county and tribal 
 providers using the funding formula detailed in clauses (1) to 
 (5). 

    Subd. 3. Repealed, 1999 c 245 art 6 s 89 

    Subd. 4.    Administrative activities limit.  No more 
 than 15 percent of the money allocated under this section may be 
 used for administrative activities. 

    Subd. 5. Repealed, 1999 c 159 s 154; 1999 c 245 art 6 s 
 89 

    Subd. 6.    Bilingual employment and training services to 
 refugees.  Funds appropriated to cover the costs of bilingual 
 employment and training services to refugees shall be allocated 
 to county agencies based on the county's proportion of the total 
 statewide number of MFIP refugee cases in the previous fiscal 
 year.  Counties with less than one percent of the statewide 
 number of MFIP refugee cases shall not receive an allocation of 
 bilingual employment and training services funds. 

    Subd. 7.    Work literacy language programs.  Funds 
 appropriated to cover the costs of work literacy language 
 programs to non-English-speaking recipients shall be allocated 
 to county agencies based on the county's proportion of the total 
 statewide number of MFIP cases in the previous fiscal year where 
 the lack of English is a barrier to employment.  Counties with 
 less than two percent of the statewide number of MFIP cases 
 where the lack of English is a barrier to employment shall not 
 receive an allocation of the work literacy language program 
 funds. 

    Subd. 8.    Reallocation.  The commissioner of human 
 services shall review county agency expenditures of MFIP 
 employment and training services funds at the end of the third 
 quarter of the first year of the biennium and each quarter after 
 that and may reallocate unencumbered or unexpended money 
 appropriated under this section to those county agencies that 
 can demonstrate a need for additional money. 

    Subd. 9.    Continuation of certain services.  At the 
 request of the caregiver, the county may continue to provide 
 case management, counseling or other support services to a 
 participant following the participant's achievement of the 
 employment goal, for up to 12 months following termination of 
 the participant's eligibility for MFIP. 

    A county may expend funds for a specific employment and 
 training service for the duration of that service to a 
 participant if the funds are obligated or expended prior to the 
 participant losing MFIP eligibility. 

    HIST: 1997 c 85 art 1 s 50; 1999 c 159 s 91,92; 1999 c 245 art 
 6 s 72-77 

*   NOTE:  Subdivision 3 was also amended by Laws 1999, chapter 
*159, section 90, to read as follows: 

*   "Subd. 3.    Allocation of balance of funds.  If there 
*remain funds to allocate after establishing each county's 
*guaranteed floor under the provisions in subdivision 2, the 
*balance of remaining funds shall be allocated based on the 
*county's average number of MFIP cases as compared to the 
*statewide total number of cases.  The average number of cases 
*must be based on counts of MFIP cases as of March 31, June 30, 
*September 30, and December 31 of the previous calendar year."