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-3- During D~d~mber and Jauuaz-] the COG §toff will be aSsiSting any County Dee"office tha~~ desires it, ~n including this process in their presentation to the county cvmmissiou at' budget time. If you have any.questions or want a presentation of this system to your staff or board, please call Chuck Chorak or Scarlette Johns. EMS Although'there was about $117,000 worth of equipment in the 1203 for counties tO use for EMS equltpment, the majority of the funds were for communication equipment. Since the aWarding of the 1203 grant, HEW has decided that a commmuication plan mUst be completed before bidding or purchasing any equipment. Th~ guidelines for this plan will be completed in early January. The cOG staff expects to have the plan complete by March in order to purchase and install equ/pment for th~ county by Juan. Th~. s~-~f will be work/rig closely with you and will need your assistance in completing the plan for your county as expeditiously as possible. The Regional EMS staff needs a decision by either the county administrative decision maker for EMS or a county co-~ttse for ~S, to proceed with plans for spending EMS public education funds in the county. You will be contacted by David Eailey about this shortly. Tbs staff is presently w~rking on a second year application for 1203 funds. Our g~ant is due to OEMS in March. It will have to be ready in February for the Executive Council of the COG Board; The EMS Council will pass Judgment on the .grant in early February. The co~ittees and counties will have to review it in January. During December and January recently organized committees or existing groups could'make timely suggestions-about the future year for the EMS program to the County Comm*ssioners. In this way the suggestions and work plan for this year would reflect and be complemented by the grant or activities elated for Family P1 ~u~ing The F~v"~ly Pl~n~ing staff originated a memo last month reminding county projects that we have had difficulty in getting financial reports submitted by the dead- lines. To avoid holding up counties which submit reports and requests on time wu must send,in those which have been submitted. Please remiad your health de- partment that we need their expenditure reports in order to request funds for the next quarter. Although some counties don't need the money ~-.~ediately it is in- creasingly difficult to keep tract of: how much the county is entitled to, how much it has drawn..and particularly if it is overspending or underspending as the year draws to au end. If you have any problems or questions with this, please call Lynn Griffin or Chuck Cborak, Manpower The COG Manpower staff is working on an impact evaluation for Title I CETA programs which were operated ia Region F in the 1977 fiscal year (October 1, 1976-Septem- ber 30, 1977). Manpower Planning for FY'79 is beginning and a workshop is planned at DCE January 1-10 for technical assistance to the LRO planners. The State Division of Community EmPl0Yment has taken over the monitoring respon- sibilities for Region F for the 1978 fiscal year which began October 1, 1977. As of this date, the COG has not received any monitoring reports from DCE as to the performance of the Region F operators for CETA Title I, since October 1. This is