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28.7 COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT AREA BOARD
RESPONSIBILITIES AND AUTHORITY.
1. A community empowerment area board shall do the following:
a. Designate a public agency of this state, as defined in
section 28E.2, a community action agency as defined in section
216A.91, an area education agency established under section 273.2, or
a nonprofit corporation, to be the fiscal agent for grant moneys and
for other moneys administered by the community board.
b. Administer community empowerment grant moneys available
from the state to the community board as provided by law and other
federal, state, local, and private moneys made available to the
community board. Eligibility for receipt of community empowerment
grant moneys shall be limited to those community boards that have
developed an approved school ready children grant plan in accordance
with this chapter. A community board may apply to the Iowa
empowerment board to receive as a community empowerment grant those
moneys which would otherwise only be available within the geographic
area through categorical funding sources or programs.
c. If a community empowerment area includes a
decategorization project, coordinate planning and budgeting with the
decategorization governing board. By mutual agreement between the
community board and the decategorization governance board, the
community board may assume the duties of the decategorization
governance board or the decategorization governance board may
continue as a committee of the community board.
d. Assume other responsibilities established by law or
administrative rule.
2. A community board may do any of the following:
a. Designate one or more committees for oversight of grant
moneys awarded to the community empowerment area.
b. Function as a coordinating body for services offered by
different entities directed to similar purposes within the community
empowerment area.
c. Develop neighborhood bodies for community-level input to
the community board and implementation of services. Section History: Recent Form
98 Acts, ch 1206, §7, 20
C99, §7I.6
99 Acts, ch 190, §12, 19, 20
CS99, §28.7
2001 Acts, ch 106, §2, 4
