KADD Goals for Support to the State Government

Assure local government involvement in the decision making process including the allocation and delivery of funds.

• Define role or designation of local entity for block grant delivery.

• Give local government a major voice in allocation of funding and decision making.

Create a flexible framework for policy development that allows for the integration of program operation and service delivery.

• A framework that is flexible so that it will work today and in the future.

• Integration of program operations and service delivery systems at the state, regional, and local level to be efficient.

Encourage local, regional, and state partnerships to achieve economies of scale.

• Partnering at local, regional and state levels.

• Accountability, flexibility, neutrality, in partnering.

• Encouraging intergovernmental roles and achieving an economy of scale.

• Reasonable number of contact points (clearinghouse) for local governments statewide.

Ensure the maintenance or establishment of a planning component at the regional level with funding being an outgrowth of the process.

• Maintaining or establishing a planning component at the regional level with funding being an outgrowth of the process.

Use the existing regional system as the administer and delivery system.

• Use existing regional system as the administer of block grants.

• Tie into existing program.

• Encouraging an intergovernmental role and economy of scale.

• Additional bureaucracy should be prevented.  Do not create an additional level of bureaucracy at the same level.

• Council can provide an efficient and cost effective way of delivering block grants.

• Use regional councils as the collaborative for local elected officials to implement block grant system.

• Allow local governments to deal with multi-county or regional problems at the grassroots level.

• Existing system has annual, independent audit.  Full accountability.