DEPARTMENT: Social Services-Children & Family Services
FILE TYPE: Consent Action
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Authorization To Execute Subcontractor Agreement With Independent School District 196
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PURPOSE/ACTION REQUESTED
Authorize execution of a subcontractor agreement with Independent School District 196 (ISD 196) to provide data and consultation for Dakota County to meet its financial reporting and payment agent (FRAPA) duties from January 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027.
SUMMARY
By Resolution No. 05-601 (November 29, 2005), the Dakota County Board of Commissioners authorized a joint powers agreement between the County of Dakota, Dakota County School Districts, and the Scott-Carver-Dakota Community Action Partnership Agency, Inc., for the purpose of establishing a Dakota County Integrated Children's Mental Health and Family Service Collaborative (Collaborative) in which Dakota County agreed to serve as Fiscal Agent Host for the Dakota County Collaborative.
The County entered into a contract with the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) to administer the Local Collaborative Time Study (LCTS), which is Minnesota's federally approved claiming mechanism for Medicaid and Title IV-E administrative reimbursement for approved Minnesota's Family Services and Children's Mental Health Collaboratives, the FRAPA from July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2027. As part of the LCTS Contract, the County is the FRAPA and responsible for administering the LCTS on behalf of the Collaborative, and reporting on all LCTS funds to DHS. The LCTS Contract cannot be assigned, and the County's duties as the FRAPA cannot be delegated or assumed by ISD 196. The County would like to subcontract with ISD 196 to meet those requirements.
The purpose of the Collaborative is to foster collaborative prevention and early intervention efforts to improve the stability and health of all children ages birth to age 18, or children birth to age 22 with disabilities, and their families through the coordination ...
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