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I Q CABARRUS COUNTY '" Department of Social Services P.O. Box 668 Cocoon, No~h C~ollea 28026~668 Jrmes F. Cook, Dlr~tor December 9, 1985 ~2tORANDUH TO: Blair Bennett~ County Finance Off, car FRON: Jim Cook, Social Service Direct~~ ti SUBJECT: Attached Budget Amendment Request I have learned today that the State will allocate the Department of Social Services an additional_$11,174.in Special State Adult Day Care funding for the current year. The attached budget amendment request provides for a portion of this funding which has not already been b6dgeted to be added to the Social Service Budget. The amendment request also provides for an adjustment to the Social Service Budget to make available the 12.5Z local match requirement needed for the State funds being added. Ro additional appropriation of County funding is being requested. The Department of Social Services utilizes Adult Day Care funding which is 87.5Z State, 12.5~ local~to p~rch~e Adult Day C~le Services~f~K 1Ow-income Qualifying adul__ts who need this service in order to help maintain them in their homes from the L.I.F.E. ~ at Central ~etbodist and C_~oovenant~E_nesby~e~i~n..Churches. We have curre~ providing this service to approximately 28 individuals who are enrolled on a full-time or part-time basis. This is about the number we were serving late in the last budget year. This year the State initially allocated us less funding than ~e ~ere allocated last year (as the Legislature did not increase its appropriation for this service and as several new programs around the State received first-time allocations from the available funding this year.) Also~ the State increased the provider reimbursement rate for Adult Day Care this year. As a result, we have had less funding for this service and funding which we have will not pay for ss many people this year as laot year. We had planned to implement a 20~ reduction in services by November in order not to spend more than we were allocated should additional State funding not be forthcoming. delayed this reduction in services further~ however~ when ye learned that the Department of Numan Resources had "found" additional State funding which it had earmarked for Adult Day Care and that the State planned to reallocate funding not spent by some programs in the first three months of the year to other programs like ours, which need additional funding.