California Code of Regulations › Title 12 - Military and Veterans Affairs › Division 2 - Department of Veterans Affairs › Chapter 3 - Veterans' Services › Subchapter 4 - County Subvention › Section 453 - State General Funded Subvention Programs; Audits and Fund Allocations

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) The
				  Department shall perform year-round audits of selected counties to authenticate
				  each county's reported workload activities.
(b) By November 15 of each year, the
				  Department shall calculate and publish the current fiscal year statewide annual
				  county subvention allocations of available state general fund moneys using the
				  audit findings of the previous fiscal year.
(1) The allocation of available funds shall
				  be divided into the following components:
(A)
				  An administration component of up to $20,000 for each county that has
				  established a County Veterans Service Office.
(B) A training component of $12,000 for each
				  county that has appointed a veteran to perform the duties of a County Veterans
				  Service Office. This component is allocated to offset the cost of the appointed
				  County Veterans Service Officer's (or designees') attendance at Department
				  sanctioned training sessions. A proportional percentage reduction of this
				  allocation, as determined by the Department, shall be taken for each training
				  session that is not attended. The funds saved through this reduction shall be
				  distributed to other counties for the purposes of sending additional County
				  Veterans Service Office staff to the sanctioned training conferences, and then
				  any remaining training funds will be distributed as described in Section
				  453(b)(5). Each
				  County Veterans Service Office shall receive $1,500 each for the County
				  Veterans Service Officer and one veterans service representative (preferably
				  the supervising or lead veteran service representative) that attend each of the
				  three Department-sanctioned conference trainings. If no County Veterans Service
				  Office staff attend, then no training funds will be received for that
				  conference. If a county would like to send more than two staff to a training
				  conference, written approval from the Department must be obtained in advance of
				  the start of the conference. Requests to send more than two staff must be made
				  in writing to the Department. Additional training funds will be allocated based
				  on the availability of training funds and will be allocated during the normal
				  subvention allocation process. Each County Veterans Service Office will receive
				  $1,000 for each new staff person (up to three per year) to attend the
				  California Veterans Service Representative Academy (CVSRA). If no County
				  Veterans Service Office staff attends the CVSRA, then the County Veterans
				  Service Office does not receive funding for this training purpose. If a County
				  Veterans Service Office does not have a new employee to send to the CVSRA, that
				  county may use those funds to send additional designated staff to training
				  conferences at $1,500 each.
(C) A
				  performance component for each county that is based on the authenticated
				  workload activities of each county as verified by the Department's annual
				  audit. The amount of this component shall be established by prorating the
				  number of each county's workload activities against the statewide county
				  total.