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Human Services Activities Title XX The Title XX staff is concentrating on assisting County DSSs gather data on the present levele of client demand for the Title ~ services being provided, to use in next year's planning. Work thus far has been primarily in Mecklenburg and Rowan Counties. Chuck Chorak will be scheduling visits with County Managers to diseuss this and some possible uses of the planning process during the next 3 weeks. Aging The Aging staff spent a great deal of time the past month in preparing for the Statewide Conference on Aging which was held in Charlotte. The meeting was very successful and included appearances by Robert Benedict, the Commissioner of the Administration on Aging and Senator Robert Morgan. Both expressed the feeling that there will be an increasing emphasis and funding for programs for the elderly in the future. The staff has also been making needed revisions in the.Area Plan to pave the way for Title-,I~% contracts for the year commencing October 1, and expects to have final approval in the next 3 weeks. Family Plannin~ The State Office is running behind both on payments for last year's programs and on approving budget for this year's programs, which started in July. Specifically: FY 77-78 FINAL SETTLEMENT TO COUNTIES: We have been advised by the State Family Planning Branch that Final Settle- ments will be made as soon as possible. We were informed that the State Budget Office is approximately two months behind in processing various claims for paymemts.:_.These, settlement checks will be ~9%thcoming to each county upon our receipt of payment fcom the State Budget Office. FY 78-79 FAMILY PLANNING CONTRACT BETWEEN COG AND THE DIVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES: The State Family Planning Branch is still reviewing all the regional budgets and is evaluating all budgets in terms of amounts proposed for FY 78-79. The timing of their approval is putting us under pressure in getting contracts in place. The COG staff will have to move as quick3fy ~s possible to get contracts with the counties finalized as soon as ~he State forwards the contracts and approved budget to us. Manpower COG manpower staff spent most of August working on the FY'77 impact .... ~y~uat~on which should be completed by September 30, 1978. Thus far ,~.~staff has been ab~ ~.,¢ontact over 1/2 of the 673 participants who were terminated from Title I programs in the 1977 fiscal year and have completed questionnaires on them.