us-wi/statute/49.265/3 — Powers and duties.

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us-wi/statute/49.265/3 — Powers and duties. · Axiom

(a)#

A community action agency shall do all of the following: 1. Administer funds received under sub. (4) and funds from other sources provided to support a community action program. 2. Set personnel, program and fiscal policies. Each community action agency shall set policies and procedures governing employee compensation and employment qualifications for itself and its agents. These policies and procedures shall ensure that employment practices are impartial and are designed to employ only competent persons, and shall guard against personal or financial conflicts of interest. Each community action agency shall also define the duties of its employees regarding advocacy on behalf of poor persons. 3. Involve, to the greatest extent practicable, poor persons in developing and implementing programs in order to ensure that these programs: a. Will stimulate the capabilities of these persons for self-advancement. b. Will be meaningful to and widely utilized by these persons. 4. Allow poor persons to influence the character of programs operated by the community action agency. 5. Involve members of the community in planning, conducting and evaluating its programs. 6. Conduct its program in a manner free of discrimination based on political affiliation and of personal or familial favoritism. Each community action agency shall establish policies and procedures to carry out this requirement and to hold staff members accountable for complying with matters governed by this section and by other state or federal laws, rules or regulations. 7. Release any record of the community action agency for examination or copying upon request, unless disclosure would constitute an unwarranted invasion of an individual’s privacy. Each community action agency shall require its agents to make their records similarly available. Each community action agency shall hold public hearings on request to provide information and to receive comments about its activities. 8. Appoint a representative or representatives to the citizen advisory committee under s. 49.325 (3) (a), in order to participate in developing and implementing programs designed to serve the poor.

(a)(1)#

Administer funds received under sub. (4) and funds from other sources provided to support a community action program.

(a)(2)#

Set personnel, program and fiscal policies. Each community action agency shall set policies and procedures governing employee compensation and employment qualifications for itself and its agents. These policies and procedures shall ensure that employment practices are impartial and are designed to employ only competent persons, and shall guard against personal or financial conflicts of interest. Each community action agency shall also define the duties of its employees regarding advocacy on behalf of poor persons.

(a)(3)#

Involve, to the greatest extent practicable, poor persons in developing and implementing programs in order to ensure that these programs: a. Will stimulate the capabilities of these persons for self-advancement. b. Will be meaningful to and widely utilized by these persons.

(a)(3)(a)#

Will stimulate the capabilities of these persons for self-advancement.

(a)(3)(b)#

Will be meaningful to and widely utilized by these persons.

(a)(4)#

Allow poor persons to influence the character of programs operated by the community action agency.

(a)(5)#

Involve members of the community in planning, conducting and evaluating its programs.

(a)(6)#

Conduct its program in a manner free of discrimination based on political affiliation and of personal or familial favoritism. Each community action agency shall establish policies and procedures to carry out this requirement and to hold staff members accountable for complying with matters governed by this section and by other state or federal laws, rules or regulations.

(a)(7)#

Release any record of the community action agency for examination or copying upon request, unless disclosure would constitute an unwarranted invasion of an individual’s privacy. Each community action agency shall require its agents to make their records similarly available. Each community action agency shall hold public hearings on request to provide information and to receive comments about its activities.

(a)(8)#

Appoint a representative or representatives to the citizen advisory committee under s. 49.325 (3) (a), in order to participate in developing and implementing programs designed to serve the poor.

(b)#

A community action agency may: 1. Approve program plans and priorities. 2. Resolve internal personnel or fiscal matters. 3. Create a community action program. If the community action agency creates a program, it shall plan, coordinate, administer and evaluate the program. A community action program may include provisions that will help poor persons: a. Secure and retain employment. b. Improve their education. c. Make better use of available income. d. Obtain and maintain adequate housing and a suitable living environment. e. Secure needed transportation. f. Obtain emergency assistance. Through its program, the community action agency may provide emergency supplies or services to meet basic needs. g. Participate in community affairs. h. Use more effectively other available programs. 4. Create methods by which poor persons can work with private groups to solve common problems. 5. Research the causes of and problems created by poverty in the community. 6. Determine if programs to reduce poverty are working effectively. 7. Initiate and sponsor projects to aid poor persons that provide otherwise unavailable services. 8. Transmit information between public and private organizations and otherwise coordinate the provision of public and private social services programs to eliminate overlap and ensure effective delivery of the programs. 9. Contract with other persons to perform the community action agency’s functions. The community action agency may delegate responsibility for funding or administering its programs or for making policy determinations concerning a particular geographic area of the community it serves only if poor persons represent at least one-third of the members of the governing body of the agent being delegated this responsibility. 10. Apply for funds from various sources to support a community action program. 11. Provide, to individuals who work at least 20 hours per week and whose earned income is at or below 150 percent of the poverty line, a program of skills enhancement that shall include access to transportation, child care, career counseling, job placement assistance, and financial support for education and training.

(b)(1)#

Approve program plans and priorities.

(b)(2)#

Resolve internal personnel or fiscal matters.

(b)(3)#

Create a community action program. If the community action agency creates a program, it shall plan, coordinate, administer and evaluate the program. A community action program may include provisions that will help poor persons: a. Secure and retain employment. b. Improve their education. c. Make better use of available income. d. Obtain and maintain adequate housing and a suitable living environment. e. Secure needed transportation. f. Obtain emergency assistance. Through its program, the community action agency may provide emergency supplies or services to meet basic needs. g. Participate in community affairs. h. Use more effectively other available programs.

(b)(3)(a)#

Secure and retain employment.

(b)(3)(b)#

Improve their education.

(b)(3)(c)#

Make better use of available income.

(b)(3)(d)#

Obtain and maintain adequate housing and a suitable living environment.

(b)(3)(e)#

Secure needed transportation.

(b)(3)(f)#

Obtain emergency assistance. Through its program, the community action agency may provide emergency supplies or services to meet basic needs.

(b)(3)(g)#

Participate in community affairs.

(b)(3)(h)#

Use more effectively other available programs.

(b)(4)#

Create methods by which poor persons can work with private groups to solve common problems.

(b)(5)#

Research the causes of and problems created by poverty in the community.

(b)(6)#

Determine if programs to reduce poverty are working effectively.

(b)(7)#

Initiate and sponsor projects to aid poor persons that provide otherwise unavailable services.

(b)(8)#

Transmit information between public and private organizations and otherwise coordinate the provision of public and private social services programs to eliminate overlap and ensure effective delivery of the programs.

(b)(9)#

Contract with other persons to perform the community action agency’s functions. The community action agency may delegate responsibility for funding or administering its programs or for making policy determinations concerning a particular geographic area of the community it serves only if poor persons represent at least one-third of the members of the governing body of the agent being delegated this responsibility.

(b)(10)#

Apply for funds from various sources to support a community action program.

(b)(11)#

Provide, to individuals who work at least 20 hours per week and whose earned income is at or below 150 percent of the poverty line, a program of skills enhancement that shall include access to transportation, child care, career counseling, job placement assistance, and financial support for education and training.