Vote: approved

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67. AGREEMENT WITH WILDFIRE FOR UTILITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM Approve revenue Agreement between Wildfire and Maricopa County, administered by its Human Services Department. The purpose of this Agreement is for Wildfire to provide the County with funding for the administration of utility financial assistance to low-income residents of Maricopa County. The term of the Agreement shall begin on July 1, 2020 and end on June 30, 2021. The Agreement funding amount is $331,040 ($297,985 for Direct Services and $33,055 for Program Delivery). Wildfire contracts with the County on an annual reoccurring, non-competitive basis for service delivery of the Utility Bill Assistance program outside the City of Phoenix, City of Glendale and the City of Mesa. The Human Services Department approved provisional indirect rate for FY2021 is 22.2% from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for salaries and employee related expenses. The total Agreement amount is $331,040 of which $0 is for salaries and ERE. The total recovered allowable indirect cost is $0. Receipt of the funds from Wildfire does not require in-kind or match funds and no future or ongoing contributions by the County at the end of the Agreement term. The services provided under this Agreement are not a mandated function but provides a benefit to the citizens by providing eligible low-income residents with financial assistance to prevent utility shut-off or to assist with utility services deposits. Grant revenues are not local revenues for the purpose of the constitutional expenditure limitation, and therefore expenditure of the revenues is not prohibited by the budget law. The approval of this funding does not alter the budget constraining expenditures of local revenues duly adopted by the Board pursuant A.R.S. §42-17105. The overall grant budget will be adjusted as necessary to accommodate this grant through future budget reconciliation. Acceptance of this Agreement will not i mpact the County General Fund. Supervisory District: All (C-22-20-049-3-00)

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