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DOA-734 (Revised 0307) Home and Community Care Block Grant for Older Adults Community Service Provider Standard Assurances Cabarrus County Department of Aain¢ agrees to provide services through the Home and Community Care Block Grant as specified on the Provider Services Summary (DOA-732) in accordance with the following: 1. Services shall be provided in accordance with requirements set forth in: a) The County Funding Plan; b) The Division of Aging and Adult Services Home and Community Care Block Gran[ Procedures Manual for Community Service Providers; and c) The Division of Aging Services Standards Manual, Volumes I through IV Community service providers shall monitor any contracts with providers of Block Grant services and take appropriate measures to ensure that services aze provided in accordance with the aforementioned documents. 2. Priority shall be given to providing services to those older persons with the greatest economic or social needs, with pazticulaz attention to low-income minority individuals. The service needs of low-income minority elderly will be addressed in the manner specified on the Methodoloev to Address Service Needs of Low-Income Minoriri Elderly format (DOA-733). 3. The following service authorization activities will be carried our in conjunction with all services provided through the Block Grant: a) Eligibility detentrination; b) Client intake/registration; a) Client assessment/reassessments and quarterly visits, as appropriate; d) Determining the amount of services to be received by the client; and e) Reviewing cost sharing/voluntary contributions policies with eligible clients. 4. All licenses, permits, bonds, and insurance necessary for carrying our Block Grant Services will be maintained by the community service provider and any contracted providers. 5. As specified in 45 CFR 92.36 (b) (11), community service providers shall have procedures for settling all contractual and administrative issues arising out of procurement of services through the Block Grant. Community service providers shall have procedures governing the evaluation of bids for services and procedures through which bidders and contracted providers may appeal or dispute a decision made by the community service provider. 6. Applicant/Client appeals shall be addressed as specified in Section 7 of the Division of Aging Home and Community Care Block Grant Manual for Community Service providers, dated February 17, 1997. 7. Community service providers aze responsible for providing or arranging for the provision of required local match, as specified on the Provider Services Summary. (DOA-732). Local match shall be expended simultaneously with Block Grant funding. 8. Providers expending $300,000 or more in federal financial assistance through the Home and Community Caze Block Grant, or in combination with other federal funding shall receive an annual independent audit which meets the requirements of the Division of Aging Program Audit Guide for Aging services, applicable North Cazolina General Statutes and Local Govemment Commission requirements, and OMB Circular A-I 33. For-profit community service providers shall have an annual compliance audit which meets the requirements of A-i 33. The audit shall be performed within nine (9) months of the close of the providers' fiscal year. Upon completion of the audit, non-profit and for-profit providers shall provide a copy of the audit report and any opinion letter simultaneously to the County and the Area Agency. Federal funds will not reimbwse the cost of a single audit if the total of all federal funds expended by the provider is less than $300,000. 9. Compliance with Equal Employment Opportunity and Americans with Disabilities Act requirements, as specified in paragraph fourteen (14) of the Agreement for the Provision of Counri Aning-Based Services (DOA-735) shall be maintained. 10. Providers In-Home Aide, Home Health, Housing and Home Improvement, and Adult Day Care or Adult Day Health Care shall sign and return the attached assurance to the area agency on aging indicating that recipients of these services have been informed of their client rights, as required in Section 314 of the 1992 Amendments to the Older Americans Act.