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Commissioner Brown - DHHS (Social Services Division) - To Approve a Transfer of Funds within the Children Residential Program to Cover Expenses for Foster Care Placements for the Remainder of Fiscal Year 2016-2017 (Transfer is Within Budget and Requires No Additional County Funds - $285,000).
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STAFF CONTACT
Angela Karchmer - DHHS-Department of Social Services -704-862-7930
BUDGET IMPACT
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Transfer budgeted funds within the Child Services Foster Care Program in order to have available funds in the appropriate accounts for foster care placements for the remainder for FY16-17.
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BUDGET ORDINANCE IMPACT
Transfer $285,000 from multiple Children Services expense accounts into the State Foster Home account.
BACKGROUND
In February, 2016, DHHS-DSS had 253 children in foster care with 211 children in paid placements. As of February, 2017, we now have 342 children in foster care and of these 253 are in paid placements. This is an increase of 42 children in paid placements. The average cost from October 2015 to February 2016 was $184,000 per month and now the average cost from October 2016 to February 2017 is $265,000 per month, an increase of $81,000 per month. Due to such are large increase in paid placements, our foster care board payment accounts are overspending. Therefore, we are requesting to transfer funds within the Children Residential accounts to cover the overspending.
POLICY IMPACT
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ATTACHMENTS
Budget Change Request