Missouri Revised Statutes
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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