Sec. 3109.17. (A) For each fiscal biennium, the children's | 19 |
trust fund board shall establish a biennial state plan for | 20 |
comprehensive child abuse and child neglect prevention. The plan | 21 |
shall be transmitted to the governor, the president and minority | 22 |
leader of the senate, and the speaker and minority leader of the | 23 |
house of representatives and shall be made available to the | 24 |
general public. The board may define in the state plan the term | 25 |
"effective public notice." If the board does not define that term | 26 |
in the state plan, the board shall include in the state plan the | 27 |
definition of "effective public notice" specified in rules adopted | 28 |
by the department of job and family services. | 29 |
(5) Allocate funds to each child abuse and child neglect | 47 |
prevention advisory board for the purpose of funding child abuse | 48 |
and child neglect prevention programs. In allocating funds to a | 49 |
county family and children first council that has been designated | 50 |
to serve as the child abuse and child neglect prevention advisory | 51 |
board under division (A)(1) of section 3109.18 of the Revised | 52 |
Code, the children's trust fund board may send those funds to the | 53 |
county or district children's trust fund in the county treasury or | 54 |
directly to the administrative agent of the county family and | 55 |
children first council designated pursuant to division (B)(5)(a) | 56 |
of section 121.37 of the Revised Code. Funds shall be allocated | 57 |
among advisory boards according to a formula based on the ratio of | 58 |
the number of children under age eighteen in the county or | 59 |
multicounty district to the number of children under age eighteen | 60 |
in the state, as shown in the most recent federal decennial census | 61 |
of population. Subject to the availability of funds and except as | 62 |
provided in section 3109.171 of the Revised Code, each advisory | 63 |
board shall receive a minimum of ten thousand dollars per fiscal | 64 |
year. In the case of an advisory board that serves a multicounty | 65 |
district, the advisory board shall receive, subject to available | 66 |
funds and except as provided in section 3109.171 of the Revised | 67 |
Code, a minimum of ten thousand dollars per fiscal year for each | 68 |
county in the district. Funds shall be disbursed to the advisory | 69 |
boards twice annually. At least fifty per cent of the funds | 70 |
allocated to an advisory board for a fiscal year shall be | 71 |
disbursed to the advisory board not later than the thirtieth day | 72 |
of September. The remainder of the funds allocated to the advisory | 73 |
board for that fiscal year shall be disbursed before the | 74 |
thirty-first day of March. | 75 |
(C) The children's trust fund board shall prepare a report | 105 |
for each fiscal biennium that delineates the expenditure of money | 106 |
from the children's trust fund. On or before January 1, 2002, and | 107 |
on or before the first day of January of a year that follows the | 108 |
end of a fiscal biennium of this state, the board shall file a | 109 |
copy of the report with the governor, the president and minority | 110 |
leader of the senate, and the speaker and minority leader of the | 111 |
house of representatives. | 112 |
(D) The children's trust fund board shall develop a list of | 113 |
all state and federal sources of funding that might be available | 114 |
for establishing, operating, or establishing and operating a | 115 |
children's advocacy center under sections 2151.425 to 2151.428 of | 116 |
the Revised Code. The board periodically shall update the list as | 117 |
necessary. The board shall maintain, or provide for the | 118 |
maintenance of, the list at an appropriate location. That location | 119 |
may be the offices of the department of job and family services. | 120 |
The board shall provide the list upon request to any children's | 121 |
advocacy center or to any person or entity identified in section | 122 |
2151.426 of the Revised Code as a person or entity that may | 123 |
participate in the establishment of a children's advocacy center. | 124 |
(B) If an advisory board or a group of advisory boards fails | 134 |
to submit to the children's trust fund board a local allocation | 135 |
plan or a comprehensive local allocation plan pursuant to division | 136 |
(F)(1) of section 3109.18 of the Revised Code that is postmarked | 137 |
on or before the first day of AprilMarch preceding the fiscal | 138 |
year or years for which the plan is developed, if an advisory | 139 |
board or a group of advisory boards fails to submit an amended | 140 |
plan pursuant to division (A)(2) of this section, or if a plan or | 141 |
an amended plan submitted by an advisory board or a group of | 142 |
advisory boards is not approved by the children's trust fund | 143 |
board, the children's trust fund board may do either of the | 144 |
following for the fiscal year or years for which the plan was to | 145 |
have been developed: | 146 |
Sec. 3109.18. (A)(1) A board of county commissioners may | 158 |
establish a child abuse and child neglect prevention advisory | 159 |
board or may designate the county family and children first | 160 |
council to serve as the child abuse and child neglect prevention | 161 |
advisory board. The boards of county commissioners of two or more | 162 |
contiguous counties may instead form a multicounty district to be | 163 |
served by a child abuse and child neglect prevention advisory | 164 |
board or may designate a regional family and children first | 165 |
council to serve as the district child abuse and child neglect | 166 |
prevention advisory board. Each advisory board shall meet at least | 167 |
twice a year. | 168 |
(B) Each county that establishes an advisory board or, in a | 174 |
multicounty district, the auditor who has been designated as the | 175 |
auditor and fiscal officer of the advisory board, shall establish | 176 |
a fund in the county treasury known as the county or district | 177 |
children's trust fund. The auditor shall deposit all funds | 178 |
received from the children's trust fund board into that fund, and | 179 |
the auditor shall distribute money from the fund at the request of | 180 |
the advisory board. | 181 |
(C) Each January, the board of county commissioners of a | 182 |
county that has established an advisory board or, in a multicounty | 183 |
district, the board of county commissioners of the county served | 184 |
by the auditor who has been designated as the auditor and fiscal | 185 |
officer for the advisory board, shall appropriate the amount | 186 |
described in division (B)(2) of section 3109.17 of the Revised | 187 |
Code for distribution by the advisory board to child abuse and | 188 |
child neglect prevention programs. | 189 |
(3) Of the members first appointed, at least one shall serve | 220 |
for a term of three years, at least one for a term of two years, | 221 |
and at least one for a term of one year. Thereafter, each member | 222 |
shall serve a term of three years. Each member shall serve until | 223 |
the member's successor is appointed. All vacancies on the board | 224 |
shall be filled for the balance of the unexpired term in the same | 225 |
manner as the original appointment. | 226 |
(F)(1) Except as provided in division (F)(2) of this section, | 232 |
each child abuse and child neglect prevention advisory board shall | 233 |
develop a local allocation plan for the purpose of preventing | 234 |
child abuse and child neglect and submit the plan on an annual, | 235 |
biannual, or multiple year basis as determined by the children's | 236 |
trust fund board. The board shall submit the local allocation plan | 237 |
to the children's trust fund board on or before the first day of | 238 |
March preceding the fiscal years for which the plan is developed.
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(2) Two or more child abuse and child neglect prevention | 240 |
advisory boards may, with the approval of the children's trust | 241 |
fund board, partner with each other to develop a comprehensive | 242 |
local allocation plan for the purpose of preventing child abuse | 243 |
and child neglect. The advisory boards shall submit the | 244 |
comprehensive local allocation plan on an annual, biannual, or | 245 |
multiple year basis as determined by the children's trust fund | 246 |
board and shall submit the comprehensive local allocation plan to | 247 |
the children's trust fund board on or before the first day of | 248 |
March preceding the fiscal year or years for which the plan is | 249 |
developed. | 250 |
(2) Provide effective public notice, as defined by the | 258 |
children's trust fund board in the state plan or, if the board | 259 |
does not define the term in the state plan, as defined in rules | 260 |
adopted by the department of job and family services, to potential | 261 |
applicants about the availability of funds from the children's | 262 |
trust fund, including an estimate of the amount of money available | 263 |
for grants within each county or district, the date of at least | 264 |
one public hearing, information on obtaining a copy of the grant | 265 |
application form, and the deadline for submitting grant | 266 |
applications; | 267 |
(G)(H) A member of a child abuse and child neglect prevention | 279 |
advisory board shall not participate in the development of a local | 280 |
allocation plan or a comprehensive local allocation plan under | 281 |
division (F)(1) of this section if it is reasonable to expect that | 282 |
the member's judgment could be affected by the member's own | 283 |
financial, business, property, or personal interest or other | 284 |
conflict of interest. For purposes of this division, "conflict of | 285 |
interest" means the taking of any action that violates any | 286 |
applicable provision of Chapter 102. or 2921. of the Revised Code. | 287 |
Questions relating to the existence of a conflict of interest | 288 |
pertaining to Chapter 2921. of the Revised Code shall be submitted | 289 |
by the advisory board to the local prosecuting attorney for | 290 |
resolution. Questions relating to the existence of a conflict of | 291 |
interest pertaining to Chapter 102. of the Revised Code shall be | 292 |
submitted by the advisory board to the Ohio ethics commission for | 293 |
resolution. | 294 |
(I)(J) A children's advocacy center for which a child abuse | 300 |
and child neglect prevention advisory board uses any amount out of | 301 |
the funds allocated to the advisory board under section 3109.172 | 302 |
of the Revised Code, as start-up costs for the establishment and | 303 |
operation of the center, shall use the moneys so received only for | 304 |
establishment and operation of the center in accordance with | 305 |
sections 2151.425 to 2151.428 of the Revised Code. Any other | 306 |
person or entity that is a recipient of a grant from the | 307 |
children's trust fund shall use the grant funds only to fund | 308 |
primary and secondary child abuse and child neglect prevention | 309 |
programs. Any grant funds that are not spent by the recipient of | 310 |
the funds within the time specified by the terms of the grant | 311 |
shall be returned to the county treasurer. Any grant funds | 312 |
returned that are not redistributed by the advisory board within | 313 |
the state fiscal year in which they are received shall be returned | 314 |
to the treasurer of state. The treasurer of state shall deposit | 315 |
such unspent moneys into the children's trust fund to be spent for | 316 |
purposes consistent with the state plan adopted under section | 317 |
3109.17 of the Revised Code. | 318 |
(K)(L)(1) Each children's advocacy center for which a child | 322 |
abuse and child neglect prevention advisory board uses any amount | 323 |
out of the funds allocated to the advisory board under section | 324 |
3109.172 of the Revised Code, as start-up costs for the | 325 |
establishment and operation of the center, and each other person | 326 |
or entity that is a recipient of a children's trust fund grant | 327 |
from an advisory board shall file with the advisory board a copy | 328 |
of a semi-annual and an annual report that includes the | 329 |
information required by the children's trust fund board. | 330 |
(2) Each advisory board shall file with the children's trust | 331 |
fund board, not later than the fifteenth day of August following | 332 |
the year for which the report is written, a copy of an annual | 333 |
report regarding the county or district local allocation plan that | 334 |
contains the information required by the children's trust fund | 335 |
board, and regarding the advisory board's use of any amount out of | 336 |
the funds allocated to the advisory board under section 3109.172 | 337 |
of the Revised Code as start-up costs for the establishment and | 338 |
operation of a children's advocacy center. | 339 |