§ 12747 Community Action Plan Requirements

Key Takeaways

•Groups helping poor people must make a plan every year. The plan should list what problems they will fix, how they will do it, and what to do if they get less money from the government.
•These groups must send their plan and a report about a public meeting to the government by June 30 each year.
•If the group doesn’t work all over the state, they must hold a public meeting to talk about their plan with the people they help.
•At the meeting, they must listen to what poor people say. If the plan doesn’t fix the problems poor people talk about, the group must explain why.

Example

A small town has a group that helps poor families get food and jobs. Every year, they make a plan to decide what to do next.

The group holds a meeting in May to listen to poor families. One family says they need help with childcare so parents can work. The group’s plan didn’t include childcare, so they have to explain why they can’t add it or say they will try to add it next year. Then, they send their plan and a report about the meeting to the government by June 30.

(a) Community action plans shall be developed by eligible entities as required by the secretary and the director using processes that assess poverty-related needs, available resources, and feasible goals and strategies, and that yield program priorities consistent with standards of effectiveness established for this program. Community action plans shall identify eligible activities to be funded in the program service areas and the needs that each activity is designed to meet. Community action plans shall provide for the contingency of reduced federal funding. (b) All eligible entities shall submit their grant applications, including local plan and report of the public hearing, if required, to the department no later than June 30 of each year. (c) Each eligible entity not serving a statewide area shall conduct a local public hearing for the purpose of reviewing the local plans of all eligible entities located or operating within a political subdivision served or proposed to be served pursuant to this chapter. (d) Eligible entities holding hearings pursuant to this article shall identify all testimony presented by the poor, and shall determine whether the concerns expressed by that testimony have been addressed in the plan. If the agency determines that any of these concerns have not been included in the plan, it shall specify in its response to the plan information about those concerns and comment as to their validity. (Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 46, Sec. 13. Effective January 1, 2008. Repealed conditionally as prescribed by Section 12790.)

Key Takeaways

•Groups helping poor people must make a plan every year. The plan should list what problems they will fix, how they will do it, and what to do if they get less money from the government.
•These groups must send their plan and a report about a public meeting to the government by June 30 each year.
•If the group doesn’t work all over the state, they must hold a public meeting to talk about their plan with the people they help.
•At the meeting, they must listen to what poor people say. If the plan doesn’t fix the problems poor people talk about, the group must explain why.

Example

A small town has a group that helps poor families get food and jobs. Every year, they make a plan to decide what to do next.

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