Vote: approved

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22. ACCEPTANCE OF DEPENDENCY CASE PROCESSING INITIATIVE GRANT Pursuant to A.R.S. §5-601.02, authorize the acceptance of funds from the Arizona Supreme Court, Administrative Office of the Courts for the Dependency Case Processing Initiative Grant in the amount of $1,904,086 total. Of the total amount, $1,254,506 will be received in FY 2017 and $649,580 will be received in FY 2018. Approve an increase to the FY 2017 budget for the Superior Court (D800) Grant Fund (238) Operating (1000) revenues and expenditures appropriated budget in the amount of $1,254,506 total. The Superior Court’s indirect cost rate for FY 2017 is 61.2% as approved by the Department of Finance. The Dependency Case Processing Initiative Grant does not allow for the recovery of indirect costs. The estimated unrecoverable indirect costs for FY2017 are $767,757 total. Grant revenues are not local revenues for the purpose of the constitutional expenditure limits, and therefore expenditures of these revenues are 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 to A.R.S. §42-17105. Unrecoverable indirect costs will be paid from existing budgeted funds. In June, 2016, the Arizona State Legislature approved Dependency Case Processing Initiative (DCPI) aka “Surge” funding of $3,000,000 over the next two years to expedite permanency for children in care. Maricopa County received $1,904,086 of the $3,000, 000 to implement specific initiatives designed to identify, track, and report data that illustrates efforts to safely expedite permanency for children in care. These initiatives’ will include, a downtown calendar pilot, a special permanency calendar, information sharing efficiencies, early parent engagement and mediation enhancement. Funding awarded will cover a 24-month period beginning on July 1, 2016 and ending on June 30, 2018. (C-80-17-003-2-00)

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