§ 452. Operational Requirements of Participating Counties.

(a) Each county that has established a CVSO shall institute the organizational and administrative ability to carry out its obligations, including but not limited to the following:

(1) The establishment and maintenance of a data-reporting system that provides the information required on CDVA prescribed workload activity report forms.

(2) The maintenance of financial records and books of account fully disclosing the allocation and expenditure of county funds and the disposition of all offsetting revenues and reimbursements including Department funds allocated to the CVSO function. Such records and books shall be maintained on an accrual or modified accrual basis in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

(3) A workload activity data collection system that provides documentation and justification for reported workload activities.

(b) Each county shall submit to the Department all required workload activity reports within 30 days after the end of the reporting periods as established by the Department. Failure to comply may result in the omission of a delinquent county from the annual allocation process.

(c) Each county shall submit to the Department:

(1) The adopted/final current fiscal year budget for the CVSO function, detailing all dedicated CVSO costs and scheduled revenues and reimbursements within 30 days of adoption by the Board of Supervisors.

(2) A detailed report of the prior fiscal year's actual expenditures for the CVSO function including all offsetting revenues and reimbursements by November 1 of each year.

(d) For the purpose of eligibility to participate in the allocation of funds as specified in this chapter, each CVSO shall provide services to veterans and dependents as required by Military and Veterans Code Sections 970 and 971.

(e) For the purpose of eligibility to participate in the annual allocation of funds authorized pursuant to Military and Veterans Code Section 972.1, each county shall appropriate county funds in each fiscal year for the CVSO an amount equal to or greater than expended in Fiscal Year 1988-89.

(1) For the purpose of eligibility to claim and receive payment of the full annual allocation, each county shall certify to the Department that the current fiscal year expenditure exceeds the Fiscal Year 1988-89 expenditure by, at least, the full amount of the current annual allocation.

(f) For the purpose of eligibility to participate in the annual allocation of funds authorized pursuant to Military and Veterans Code Section 972.5, each county shall, as required by the Department, perform, document, and report activities that benefit, or realize cost avoidance to, the Medi-Cal program of the State Department of Health Services and welfare programs of the State Department of Social Services.

HISTORY

1. Change without regulatory effect repealing section (Register 88, No. 6).

2. New section filed 6-18-92; operative 7-20-92 (Register 92, No. 25).

Note

Note: Authority cited: The Statutes of 1990, Chapter 535, Section 2; and Section 700, Military and Veterans Code. Reference: Sections 970, 972, 972.1 and 972.5, Military and Veterans Code.