216A.96 - DUTIES OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY.
216A.96 DUTIES OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY.
A community action agency or delegate agency shall:
1. Plan for a community action program by establishing priorities
among projects, activities, and areas to provide for the most
efficient use of possible resources.
2. Obtain and administer assistance from available sources on a
common or cooperative basis, in an attempt to provide additional
opportunities to low-income persons.
3. Establish effective procedures by which the concerned
low-income persons and area residents may influence the community
action programs affecting them by providing for methods of
participation in the implementation of the community action programs
and by providing technical support to assist persons to secure
assistance available from public and private sources.
4. Encourage and support self-help, volunteer, business, labor,
and other groups and organizations to assist public officials and
agencies in supporting a community action program which results in
the additional use of private resources while developing new
employment opportunities, encouraging investments which have an
impact on reducing poverty among the poor in areas of concentrated
poverty, and providing methods by which low-income persons can work
with private organizations, businesses, and institutions in seeking
solutions to problems of common concern. Section History: Recent Form
86 Acts, ch 1245, § 1245
C87, § 601K.96
C93, § 216A.96