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7O sire Planning Management; Grants Coordinator; State Division of Planning Community Affairs; State Department of Welfare; Portsmouth Public Health Department and District Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of %he City of Portsmouth, Virginia, that the conceptual design of a Human Service System is hereby approved. Said system shall include the following framework: 1. A Human Service System should serve all persons residing in Portsmouth within the framework of local state and federal regulations and laws. 2. All funds for human services shall be appropriated by the City Council within the framework of state, local and federal regulations and laws. 3. A governance mechanism is an essential component of the human service system and should serve as the system's single point of accountability. Said mechanism should have the following specific responsibilities: a) Establish on an annual basis the performance b) Hold public hearings to obtain citizen input mance specification; specification for the system; for and review of the perfor- c) Submit the performance specification to the City Council for validation; d) Annually conduct an independent performance audit or determination of actual results or effects of the system; e) Review and issue a public report on the performance of the system (at least annually) as determined by the audit and have the results printed in a local newspaper and/or hold hearings on the report; f) All other powers and responsibilities will be established city government at a later date. as required by 4. The development and operation of a common client handling procedure for all agencies participating in the system, accomplished in a case manager's system. 5. The management structure for the Human Service System should include major service providers under the control of the Director of Human Services. 6. A case manager act as a client advocate, be assigned to the client, and have respon- sibility for identifying general needs of the client for which the system is accountable. 7. Conducting of a four-phase development program to culminate by 1980 in a fully operational Human Service System. 8. System development responsibility be placed in the Comprehensive Planning Management office. 9. The Department of Social Services should begin as the trial operating agency of a case manager system in Phase Ayes: Early, Elliott, Holley, Oast, Wentz, Davis Nays: None * The following letter from Earl H. McClenney, Jr,, Associate Director, Division of State Planning and Community Affairs, Commonwealth of Virginia, was presented: "I would like to take this opportunity to express the interest of the Commonwealth and our office in the project being undertaken by the human affairs agencies of'the City of Por'tsmouth and the Human Ecology Institute. Governor Godwin and former Governor Holton expressed their interest in the City of Portsmouth ~n several occasions. The most notable being the designation of Portsmouth as an Urban Research Lab, which resulted in the successful "Ills of the City" report. Followin~ that study, the Commonwealth has expended approximately $75,000 for special, and significant implementation of many of the recommendations in the study. The taRk being undertaken with the Human Ecology Institute is a very significant step for local government. This is especially true as we seek to maximize scarce resources in a period of increasing economic scarcity. The categerical approach to funding human service programs has in many instances been a luxury in the sense that hard management decisions wer~ not demanded. We could always argue our own cases while not having to answer for anyone els~ However, it is now time to face the realities of scarce revenues at the state and fedora levels. These realities demand a more sophisticated, responsive and accountable management approach. This management approach must have a design and a goal. I believe that the recom- mendations of the Project Review Team are forward thinking and are a clear step by step polic program for the City of Portsmouth. I certainly hope that the measure before City Council is received favorably." 75-93 "Consideration of a mo~ion to authorizo the advertisement for sale of City-owne~ property adjacent to Academy Park Elementary