NY Soc Serv L § 458-N (2021)
2021 New York Laws SOS - Social Services Article 6 - Children Title 12 - Family Support Services Programs 458-N - Funding for Family Support Services Programs.

§   458-n.   Funding   for   family   support  services  programs.  1. Notwithstanding any other provision of  law  to  the  contrary,  to  the extent  that  funds  are  available  for  such  purpose and specifically appropriated therefor, the office of children and family services  shall distribute  funding  to the highest need municipality which shall mean a county or a city with a population of one million or  more  to  contract with  not-for-profit  corporations  to  operate  family support services programs in accordance  with  the  provisions  of  this  title  and  the specific program model requirements issued by the office.   2.  Notwithstanding  any  other provision of law to the contrary, when determining the highest need municipality pursuant to this  subdivision, the   office  may  consider  factors  that  may  include,  but  are  not necessarily limited to:  (a) the total amount of available funding and the  amount  of  funding required  for  family  support  services programs to meet the objectives outlined in section four hundred fifty-eight-m of this title;  (b) relevant, available  statistics  regarding  each  municipality,  a group  of  two  or  more  municipalities  that  jointly seek to fund and administer  a  family  support  services  program  in  accordance   with subdivision  four of this section which may include, but not necessarily be limited to:  (i) the availability of services within such municipality  to  prevent or  reduce  detention  or  residential  placement  of  youth pursuant to article seven of the family court act; and  (ii) relative to the youth population of such municipality:  (1) the number of petitions filed pursuant to  article  seven  of  the family court act; or  (2)  the  number  of  placements  of  youth  into  residential care or detention  pursuant  to  article  seven  of  the  family  court  act  as applicable, over the last five years;  (c)  any reported performance outcomes reported to the office pursuant to subdivision three  of  this  section  for  programs  that  previously received funding pursuant to this title; or  (d) other appropriate factors as determined by the office.   3.  Municipalities  receiving funding under this title shall report to the office of children and family services, in the form and  manner  and at  such  times as determined by the office, on the performance outcomes of any family support service program located within such municipalities that receives funding under this title.   4. Two or more  eligible  municipalities  within  a  close  geographic within  a  close  geographic  proximity  to each other may enter into an agreement to jointly seek funding  for  and  jointly  administer  family support  services programs to service eligible youth and families within such municipalities in accordance with  this  section.  Such  agreements shall  include provisions for the proportionate cost to be borne by each municipality and for the manner  of  employment  of  personnel  and  may provide  that  a  fiscal  officer  of one such municipality shall be the custodian of the moneys made available for expenditure for such purposes by all such  municipalities  and  that  such  fiscal  officer  may  make payments  therefrom  upon  audit  of  the  appropriate  auditing body or officer of his or her municipality.  In  making  claims  for  state  aid pursuant  to  section,  each  such  municipality  shall  claim  for  its proportionate share of the total joint expenditures  so  made.  However, where it is provided that there shall be a disbursing municipality, such disbursing   municipality  shall  claim  for  the  total  joint  program expenditures  so  made  and  shall  disburse  such  state  aid  to  each participating   municipality  based  upon  the  proportionate  share  of expenditures so made.    5. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivisions two, three and  four of  this  section, a municipality, consistent with its approved plan for supervision and treatment services for juveniles  program,  may  utilize any  funding  available  to  such  municipality pursuant to section five hundred  twenty-nine-b  of  the  executive  law  to  fund family support services programs pursuant to this title.