AGENDA DATE: 8/4/2021
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Recommended Updates to the Agency Budget Review Team (ABRT) Fiscal Year 2023 (FY 23) Application Process
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SUBJECT/PROPOSAL/REQUEST: Approve recommended updates to the ABRT FY 23 application process
ITEM TYPE: Regular Action Item
STAFF CONTACT(S): Richardson, Walker, Birch, Stebbins, Pethia, Bowman, Gardner, Freeman, Allshouse, L.
PRESENTER (S): Lori Allshouse
LEGAL REVIEW: Not Required
REVIEWED BY: Jeffrey B. Richardson
BACKGROUND: The Agency Budget Review Team (ABRT) was created in 1991 as a joint City/County process utilized to review funding requests received by the City and County from community non-profit agencies. Over the years, the City and County refined the ABRT process to include the use of an objective rating tool and outcome measures, updated criteria, and alignment with funding priorities and human service-related goals. The City and County began to implement separate approaches to the human services non-profit Human Services application review process beginning in FY 2020.
The County's FY 2022 ABRT process continued to included volunteer citizens and County staff members on teams that reviewed and scored funding requests from human services non-profit agencies based on updated County's Human Services goals that included a focus on equity and inclusion and support of the County's COVID-19 goals. The process also included a new grant application software system. The County's ABRT process continues to be supported by a temporary employee and is facilitated by the Department of Finance and Budget in coordination with the Department of Social Services, the Office of Housing, and the Office of Equity and Inclusion. The County's adopted FY22 Budget includes $1.67 Million in funding for ABRT community non-profit agencies.
STRATEGIC PLAN: Mission - To enhance the well-being and quality of life for all community members through the provision of the highest level of public service consistent wit...
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