Resolution 09188CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 9188
SUPPORTING CHANGE IN COMMUNITY SERVICES ADMINISTRATION'S
(CSA) POVERTY INCOME GUIDELINES SO THAT CERTAIN NEEDY
SENIOR AND HANDICAPPED CITIZENS IN THE CITY OF ALAMEDA
MAY RECEIVE SERVICES FUNDED BY SAID CSA
WHEREAS, the City of Alameda is a signatory of the Joint
Powers Agreement establishing the Associated Community Action
Program (ACAP), the designated Community Action Agency in Alameda
County; and
WHEREAS, in its capacity as a member of the ACAP Consor-
tium, the City of Alameda fully supports ACAP's mission to help
eliminate the causes and consequences of poverty by effecting a
permanent increase in the capacity of individuals and groups
afflicted by poverty to deal effectively with the problems of
poverty; and
WHEREAS, the current guidelines for determining income
eligibility for services imposed by the Community Services
Administration and implemented by ACAP are inadequate because
cash welfare payments, such as Supplemental Security Income (SSI),
are included in the determination of income eligibility and
therefore forces many senior and handicapped citizens to be
excluded from services; and
WHEREAS, both the ACAP Administering Board and the ACTEB/
ACAP Governing Board support a change which would automatically
include SSI recipients in the economically disadvantaged
category;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF ALAMEDA that said Council strongly advocates to the Community
Services Administration and the Office of Management and Budget
that recipients of cash welfare payments, such as Supplemental
Security Income (SS1), be automatically included in the economi-
cally disadvantaged category and therefore become eligible for
CSA funded services; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council of the City
of Alameda feels that this action would greatly assist in reduc-
ing the pattern of overinstitutionalization of senior citizens
by providing adequate supportive services with the use of CSA
funds and that this would be cost effective, since the cost of
maintaining residential self-sufficiency is significantly less
than the cost of institutionalizing the elderly.
I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution
was duly and regularly introduced and adopted by the Council of the City
of Alameda in regular meeting assembled on the 20th day of November, 1979,
by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen Diament, Sherratt, Stone, Tillman, and
President Corica, (5)
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
official seal of said City this 21st day of November, 1979.
City Clerk of the ameda