Ordinance amending the Administrative Code to: 1) streamline the statutory authority for the City’s indigent aid programs by eliminating redundancies and moving the authority for all programs under one renumbered Article; 2) create the Family General Relief program, to provide aid under limited circumstances to indigent households with minors who are ineligible for state aid; 3) authorize the Department of Human Services to create an intensive employment services program; 4) remove the authority to impose recoupments to collect overpayments resulting from agency error; 5) expand the types of identification that are acceptable as proof of identity; 6) repeal the requirement that applicants transfer to the City any interests in real property; 7) conform to changes in state law governing time limits applied to receipt of benefits under the CalWORKs program; 8) delete outdated provisions that no longer reflect current operation of the General Assistance program; and 9) reduce the time during which records must be retained from five to three years.

Committee

Clerk of the Board

Requested by

Human Services Agency

Introduced

May 31, 2016

Passed

August 1, 2016

Enacted

August 1, 2016

Enactment no.

153-16