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Approval of Amendment to City-County Youth Initiatives Manager Interlocal Agreement
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Date of BOCC Meeting: January 11, 2021
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The Board is requested to approve an amendment to the Interlocal Agreement regarding the City-County Youth Initiatives Manager Position.
In 2017, Durham County entered into a five year interlocal agreement with the City of Durham to offer partial funding support for a joint position, the Director of the Office on Youth (OOY), which is housed at the City and leading the work of the Strategic Youth Initiative. The County funding is only a cost-share on the director's position, and now represents approximately 22% of the total funding for the OOY. Annual updates on activities of the OOY are generally offered at Joint City-County Committee (JCCC) meetings, and monthly updates are provided to the County Manager's Office. There would have been an update given at a 2020 JCCC meeting, but the agendas were often cleared to give adequate time to more pressing, COVID-related topics. Hence, an update was provided to Commissioners at their January 4th, 2021 worksession.
As part of the revised FY20-21 Durham County non-profit funding process, one of the focus areas was "Child, Youth, and Family Wellness and Learning". In consultation with a variety of County stakeholders as well as the OOY, and in order to provide funding to support the priorities emerging from the OOY's Youth Listening Project, it was decided to allocate 2/3 of the overall funding ($176,000) for this focus area through the County RFP, and 1/3 of it ($88,000) through the OOY. The attached amendment to the interlocal agreement allows County funding to flow to the City and through the OOY to non-profit and community-based organizations over the course of the 18-month funding period anticipated with the current County process. As such, $29,304 will flow to the City's OOY in FY20-21 and an additional $58,696 in FY21-22.
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