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Council hears how Fairfax City relies on Fairfax County for mandated human-services programs and local grants for added capacity
Summary
Human-services staff outlined the city’s population-share payments to Fairfax County for mandated services (social services, public health, community-services behavioral-health services and the Children’s Services Act), local nonprofit grant support, and shelter/continuum gaps; staff said the 2003 general-services agreement has been amended by MOUs but has not been fully re-opened.
Fairfax City’s social-safety net largely runs through Fairfax County under a decades-old general-services agreement, human-services staff told council during the April 1 budget work session.
City staff explained the structure: Fairfax County provides core services — social services (child and adult protection, SNAP/TANF/Medicaid benefits), public-health services and the community services board’s behavioral-health supports — and the city pays a population-percentage share (staff cited 2.05% as the current population-based allocation) of county costs for those programs. The city also participates…
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