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Section: 192.2020 Area agencies for aging duties--advisory council, duties--agency records audited, when. RSMO 192.2020


Published: 2015

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Chapter 192

Department of Health and Senior Services

←192.2015

Section 192.2020.1

192.2025→

August 28, 2015

Area agencies for aging duties--advisory council, duties--agency records audited, when.

192.2020. 1. On and after August 13, 1984, an area agency on aging

shall operate with local administrative responsibility for Title III of the

Older Americans Act, and other funds allocated to it by the department.

The area agency board shall be responsible for all actions of an area

agency on aging in its jurisdiction, including, but not limited to, the

accountability for funds and compliance with federal and state laws and

rules. Such responsibility shall include all geographic areas in which the

area agency on aging is designated to operate. The respective area agency

board shall appoint a director of the area agency on aging in its

jurisdiction. Beginning January 1, 1995, the director of the area agency

on aging shall submit an annual performance report to the department

director, the speaker of the house of representatives, the president pro

tempore of the senate and the governor. Such performance report shall give

a detailed accounting of all funds which were available to and expended by

the area agency on aging from state, federal and private sources.



2. Each area agency on aging shall have an area agency on aging

advisory council, which shall:



(1) Recommend basic policy guidelines for the administration of the

activities of the area agencies on aging on behalf of elderly persons and

advise the area agency on aging on questions of policy;



(2) Advise the area agency on aging with respect to the development

of the area plan and budget, and review and comment on the completed area

plan and budget before its transmittal to the division;



(3) Review and evaluate the effectiveness of the area agency on aging

in meeting the needs of elderly persons in the planning and service area;



(4) Meet at least quarterly, with all meetings being subject to

sections 610.010 to 610.030.



3. Each area agency board shall:



(1) Conduct local planning functions for Title III and Title XX, and

such other funds as may be available;



(2) Develop a local plan for service delivery, subject to review and

approval by the division, that complies with federal and state requirements

and in accord with locally determined objectives consistent with the state

policy on aging;



(3) Assess the needs of elderly persons within the planning and

service delivery area for service for social and health services, and

determine what resources are currently available to meet those needs;



(4) Assume the responsibility of determining services required to

meet the needs of elderly persons, assure that such services are provided

within the resources available, and determine when such services are no

longer needed;



(5) Endeavor to coordinate and expand existing resources in order to

develop within its planning and service area a comprehensive and

coordinated system for the delivery of social and health services to

elderly persons;



(6) Serve as an advocate within government and within the community

at large for the interests of elderly persons within its planning and

service area;



(7) Make grants to or enter into contracts with any public or private

agency for the provision of social or health services not otherwise

sufficiently available to elderly persons within the planning and service

area;



(8) Monitor and evaluate the activities of its service providers to

ensure that the services being provided comply with the terms of the grant

or contract. Where a provider is found to be in breach of the terms of its

grant or contract, the area agency shall enforce the terms of the grant or

contract;



(9) Conduct research, evaluation, demonstration or training

activities appropriate to the achievement of the goal of improving the

quality of life for elderly persons within its planning and service area;



(10) Comply with division requirements that have been developed in

consultation with the area agencies for client and fiscal information, and

provide to the division information necessary for federal and state

reporting, program evaluation, program management, fiscal control and

research needs.



4. Beginning January 1, 1995, the records of each area agency on

aging shall be audited at least every other year. All audits required by

the Older Americans Act of 1965, as amended, shall satisfy this

requirement.



(L. 1984 H.B. 1131 § 3, A.L. 1994 H.B. 1335 & 1381, A.L. 2014 H.B.

1299 Revision § 192.1008)



*Transferred 2014; formerly 660.057





1994



1994 (Transferred now: 192.000.2020)



660.57. 1. On and after August 13, 1984, an area agency on aging shall

operate with local administrative responsibility for Title III of the Older

Americans Act, and other funds allocated to it by the division. The area

agency board shall be responsible for all actions of an area agency on aging

in its jurisdiction, including, but not limited to, the accountability for

funds and compliance with federal and state laws and rules. Such

responsibility shall include all geographic areas in which the area agency on

aging is designated to operate. The respective area agency board shall

appoint a director of the area agency on aging in its jurisdiction. Beginning

January 1, 1995, the director of the area agency on aging shall submit an

annual performance report to the division director, the speaker of the house

of representatives, the president pro tempore of the senate and the governor.

Such performance report shall give a detailed accounting of all funds which

were available to and expended by the area agency on aging from state, federal

and private sources.



2. Each area agency on aging shall have an area agency on aging advisory

council, which shall:



(1) Recommend basic policy guidelines for the administration of the

activities of the area agencies on aging on behalf of elderly persons and

advise the area agency on aging on questions of policy;



(2) Advise the area agency on aging with respect to the development of

the area plan and budget, and review and comment on the completed area plan

and budget before its transmittal to the division;



(3) Review and evaluate the effectiveness of the area agency on aging in

meeting the needs of elderly persons in the planning and service area;



(4) Meet at least quarterly, with all meetings being subject to sections

610.010 to 610.030.



3. Each area agency board shall:



(1) Conduct local planning functions for Title III and Title XX, and

such other funds as may be available;



(2) Develop a local plan for service delivery, subject to review and

approval by the division, that complies with federal and state requirements

and in accord with locally determined objectives consistent with the state

policy on aging;



(3) Assess the needs of elderly persons within the planning and service

delivery area for service for social and health services, and determine what

resources are currently available to meet those needs;



(4) Assume the responsibility of determining services required to meet

the needs of elderly persons, assure that such services are provided within

the resources available, and determine when such services are no longer

needed;



(5) Endeavor to coordinate and expand existing resources in order to

develop within its planning and service area a comprehensive and coordinated

system for the delivery of social and health services to elderly persons;



(6) Serve as an advocate within government and within the community at

large for the interests of elderly persons within its planning and service

area;



(7) Make grants to or enter into contracts with any public or private

agency for the provision of social or health services not otherwise

sufficiently available to elderly persons within the planning and service

area;



(8) Monitor and evaluate the activities of its service providers to

ensure that the services being provided comply with the terms of the grant or

contract. Where a provider is found to be in breach of the terms of its grant

or contract, the area agency shall enforce the terms of the grant or contract;



(9) Conduct research, evaluation, demonstration or training activities

appropriate to the achievement of the goal of improving the quality of life

for elderly persons within its planning and service area;



(10) Comply with division requirements that have been developed in

consultation with the area agencies for client and fiscal information, and

provide to the division information necessary for federal and state reporting,

program evaluation, program management, fiscal control and research needs.



4. Beginning January 1, 1995, the records of each area agency on aging

shall be audited at least every other year. All audits required by the Older

Americans Act of 1965, as amended, shall satisfy this requirement.



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