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273.443 Use of federal funds.
(1)
(2)
Any funds made available under the federal act shall be used by each grantee
of the funds:
(a) To provide a range of services and activities having a measurable and
potentially major impact on causes of poverty in the community or those
areas of the community where poverty is a particularly acute problem;
(b) To provide activities designed to assist low-income participants including
the elderly poor:
1.
To secure and retain meaningful employment;
2.
To attain an adequate education;
3.
To make better use of available income;
4.
To obtain and maintain adequate housing and a suitable living
environment;
5.
To obtain emergency assistance through loans or grants to meet
immediate and urgent individual and family needs, including the
need for health services, nutritious food, housing and employment
related assistance;
6.
To remove obstacles and solve problems which block the
achievement of self-sufficiency;
7.
To achieve greater participation in the affairs of the community; and
8.
To make more effective use of other programs related to the
purposes of KRS 273.405 to 273.453;
(c) To coordinate and establish linkages between governmental and other
social programs to assure the effective delivery of such services to
low-income individuals;
(d) To encourage the use of entities in the private sector of the community in
efforts to ameliorate poverty in the community;
(e) To develop, promote or otherwise encourage economic development
activities which result in assisting low-income persons to become
economically productive members of their community;
(f) To provide education, counseling and technical assistance on compliance
with equal opportunity legislation for individuals and community
organizations, both public and private.
In addition to required services and activities to be provided with funds made
available under the federal act, these funds may be used to provide on an
emergency basis for the provision of such supplies and services to meet
immediate essential needs of low-income persons including the elderly poor.
Effective:July 13, 1984
History: Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 308, sec. 11, effective July 13, 1984. -Created 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 453, sec. 8, effective July 15, 1982.
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