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C.146

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	Linda Dippel, Child Support Services Director
Date:	June 21, 2016

Contra

Costa

County

Subject:

Interagency Agreement with Superior Court of California

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 06/21/2016

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Mary N. Piepho, District III Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

ABSENT:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor

Contact:

Sarah Bunnell, 313-4433

I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: June 21, 2016
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Director of Child Support Services, or designee, to execute an Interagency Agreement with Superior Court of California, including modified indemnification language, in an amount not to exceed $160,000, to provide on-site family law facilitator services, for the period of July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017.

FISCAL IMPACT:

This cost would be funded by 66% Federal, 34% State allocations. This expense is a zero cost to the County General Fund.

BACKGROUND:

The Superior Court of California has agreed to provide on-site family law facilitator services at the local child support office. These services include providing assistance to self represented parties to help them prepare the paperwork to establish or modify child and/or spousal support orders, providing assistance to self represented parties to help them prepare the responses to support or paternity papers that have been served on a customer, running computer generated child and spousal support calculations, providing assistance to self represented parties to help them prepare Orders After Hearing and Wage Assignments and providing assistance to self represented parties to help them file motions to establish paternity (identity of the legal father). The goal of providing said services is to improve customer service with our customers by having a resource available to better educate and guide them through the various child support processes.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

If this action were not approved, the Department of Child Support Services would not have the ability to provide on-site family law facilitator services.

CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:

Approval of this action will allow on-site family law services to provide services in support of children.