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_ 351 Item Details($) Appropriations($) ITEM 268. First Year Second Year First Year Second Year FY2025 FY2026 FY2025 FY2026 Services, Health, and Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, to implement, as part of ongoing information systems development and refinement, changes necessary for state and local agencies to fulfill CSA reporting needs. 5. The State Executive Council shall provide localities with technical assistance on ways to control costs and on opportunities for alternative funding sources beyond funds available through the state pool. 6. Out of this appropriation, $100,000 the first year and $100,000 the second year from the general fund is provided for a combination of regional and statewide meetings for technical assistance to local community policy and management teams, family assessment and planning teams, and local fiscal agents. Training shall include, but not be limited to, cost containment measures, building community-based services, including creation of partnerships with private providers and non-profit groups, utilization management, use of alternate revenue sources, and administrative and fiscal issues. A state-supported institution of higher education, in cooperation with the Virginia Association of Counties, the Virginia Municipal League, and the State Executive Council, may assist in the provisions of this paragraph. A training plan shall be presented to and approved by the State Executive Council before the beginning of each fiscal year. A training calendar and timely notice of programs shall be provided to Community Policy and Management Teams and family assessment and planning team members statewide as well as to local fiscal agents and chief administrative officers of cities and counties. A report on all regional and statewide training sessions conducted during the fiscal year, including (i) a description of each program and trainers, (ii) the dates of the training and the number of attendees for each program, (iii) a summary of evaluations of these programs by attendees, and (iv) the funds expended, shall be made to the Chairmen of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance and Appropriations Committees and to the members of the State Executive Council by December 1 of each year. Any funds unexpended for this purpose in the first year shall be reappropriated for the same use in the second year. 7. Out of this appropriation, $70,000 the first year and $70,000 the second year from the general fund is provided for the Office of Children's Services to contract for the support of uniform CSA reporting requirements. 8. The State Executive Council shall require a uniform assessment instrument. 9. The Office of Children's Services, in conjunction with the Department of Social Services, shall determine a mechanism for reporting Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Maintenance of Effort eligible costs incurred by the Commonwealth and local governments for the Children's Services Act. 10. For purposes of defining cases involving only the payment of foster care maintenance, pursuant to § 2.2-5209, Code of Virginia, the definition of foster care maintenance used by the Virginia Department of Social Services for federal Title IV-E shall be used. C. 1.a. For services provided prior to July 1, 2025, the funding formula to carry out the provisions of the Children's Services Act is as follows: 1.a. Allocations. Tthe allocations for the Medicaid and non-Medicaid pools shall be the amounts specified in paragraphs B.1.b. and B.1.c. in this Item. These funds shall be distributed to each locality in each year of the biennium based on the greater of that locality's percentage of actual 1997 Children's Services Act pool fund program expenditures to total 1997 pool fund program expenditures or the latest available three- year average of actual pool fund program expenditures as reported to the state fiscal agent. b. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025, the Office of Children's Services shall cease the allocation process and reimburse localities for eligible services as requests are submitted. 2. Local Match. All localities are required to appropriate a local match for the base year funding consisting of the actual aggregate local match rate based on actual total 1997 program expenditures for the Children's Services Act. This local match rate shall also apply to all reimbursements from the state pool of funds in this Item and carryforward expenditures submitted prior to September 30 each year for the preceding fiscal year,