Ohio Administrative Code › Title 122:5 - Office of Community Services › Chapter 122:5-2 - Community Action Agencies › Section 122:5-2-01 - Definitions

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
As used in the rules of the Ohio
				development services agency, office of community assistance:
(A) "C.S.B.G. program" means the
			 state-administered community services block grant program as authorized by the
			 Community Services Block Grant Act, 42 U.S.C.A. 9901-9912.
(B) "Office of community
			 assistance" means the office created within the Ohio
			 development services agency and charged with the
			 administration of the Ohio C.S.B.G. program.
(C) "C.S.B.G. provider" means a community
			 action agency or migrant and seasonal farmworker organization funded by the
			 office of community services to carry out the C.S.B.G. program in a single- or
			 multi-county area.
(D) "Community
			 action agency" means a community-based and operated private nonprofit agency or
			 organization that includes or is designed to include a sufficient number of
			 projects or components to provide a range of services and activities having a
			 measurable and potentially major impact on the causes of poverty in the
			 community or those areas of the community where poverty is a particularly acute
			 problem and is designated as a community action agency by the office of
			 community services pursuant to sections
			 122.68 and
			 122.69 of the Revised
			 Code.
(E) "Community" means a city,
			 village, county, multi-city or multi-county unit, a neighborhood or other area,
			 disregarding boundaries of political subdivisions, which provides a suitable
			 organizational base and possesses a commonality of needs and interests for a
			 community action program suitable to be served by a community action
			 agency.
(F) "Service area" means
			 the geographical area served by a community action agency.
(G) "Low-income person" means a person whose
			 adjusted gross income as defined in division (A) of section
			 5747.01 of the Revised Code is
			 below the poverty line.
(H)
			 "Poverty line" means the official poverty line established by the director of
			 the United States office of management and budget and as revised in accordance
			 with section 673(2) of the Community Services Block Grant Act, 95 Stat. 1609,
			 42
			 U.S.C.A. 9902.
(I) "Grant agreement" means the agreement
			 between the Ohio development services
			 agency,
			 office of community assistance
			 and a C.S.B.G. provider, whereby funds are granted to the C.S.B.G. provider to
			 carry out specified programs, services or activities authorized under the
			 Community Services Block Grant Act, 42 U.S.C.A. 9901-9912.
(J) "Program participant" means an individual
			 or family unit receiving funds or services provided by a C.S.B.G.
			 provider.
(K) "Chief elected
			 official" means the mayor of a municipal corporation or, if no mayor is
			 directly elected in a municipal corporation, then the person designated to act
			 as such by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall be
			 considered its chief elected official, and each county commissioner.
(L) "Endorsement" means the exclusive
			 recognition and approval of a community action agency by a chief elected
			 official.