28.5 - COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT AREAS.
28.5 COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT AREAS.
1. The purpose of a community empowerment area is to enable local
citizens to lead collaborative efforts involving early care,
education, health, and human services programs on behalf of the
children, families, and other citizens residing in the area.
Leadership functions may include but are not limited to strategic
planning for and oversight and managing of such programs and the
funding made available to the community empowerment area for such
programs from federal, state, local, and private sources. The
initial focus of the purpose is to improve results for families with
young children.
2. Each county and school district in the state shall have the
option of participating in a community empowerment area. A community
empowerment area shall be designated by using existing school
district and county boundaries to the extent possible.
3. The designation of a community empowerment area and the
creation of a community empowerment area board are subject to the
approval of the Iowa empowerment board. Criteria used by the Iowa
empowerment board in approving the designation of a community
empowerment area shall include but are not limited to the existence
of a large enough geographic area and population to efficiently and
effectively administer the responsibilities and authority of the
community empowerment area. The Iowa empowerment board shall adopt
rules pursuant to chapter 17A providing procedures for the initial
designation of community empowerment areas and for later changing the
initially designated areas. Section History: Recent Form
98 Acts, ch 1206, §5, 20
C99, §7I.4
99 Acts, ch 190, §19, 20
CS99, §28.5
2005 Acts, ch 148, §10
Referred to in §28.9