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Voj. 6 No. 8 February 26, 1974 Washington, D.C.

Increasec Func ing As <ec For Hea t ~Federal funding schemm for local

health programs are inadequate to meetpresent health care needs, two NACorepresentatives testified recently.

Speaking to the House Subcommitteeon Public Health and Environment about

the Health Revenue Sharing and HealthServices Act (H.R. 11845), Dr. BernardBerman, Oakland County (Mich.)Commissioner, and Dr. Carl Brumback,Palm Beach County (Fia.) Health Of6cer,said that counties "have a tremendous

stake" in health legislation.According to a recent survey, Dr.

Barman said, 75 percent of the nation'scounties administer public health servicesand may also provide medical assistance,hospitals, mental health services,

environmental programs, emergencymedical services and alcoholism and drugabuse programs.

If counties are to provide the bulk olthe public health services, they must begiven boarder authority, greaterflexibility and increased financialsupport, he told the subcommittee.

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He also urged the adoption oflegislation to replace the present servicesauthorization of the Public Health ServiceAct with a new provision authorizingfederal payment of a certain percentageof expenditures incurred by state andlocal pubhc health agencies m carrymgout the public health programs includingmental health.

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Committee's Action Dims FutureFor Emergency Energy Legislation

A House Rules Committee decisionhas created the possibility that Congresswill not approve emergency energylegislation.

The committee voted 9-6 to allowHouse members to object to keyprovisions of the bill when it comes tothe Boor —a move backers say could hqlthe controversial legislation and at bestdelays passage while House leaders 6gureout what to do.

The bill, which rolls back the prices ofU.S. crude oil and empowers thePresident to declare gasoline rationing,passed the Senate last week,overwhelmingly 67-32 despite the threatof a Presidential veto.

However, the committee's decisionnow allows House membem to object, inthe form of points of order, to provisionsdealing with rollback of prices, rationingand Congressional veto-power over thepresident's energy conservation orders.

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The Administration objects to several ofthese.

Had the committee voted not to allowobjections, the House would have had toeither approve or reject the Senate-passedversion in its entirity. Ifany changes aremade in the bill when it comes to thefloor sometime next week, House leaderssay they would have to start all overagain.

The bill, as approved by the Senate,would force a price rollback to $5.25 abarreB for "new" domestic crude oil withprovision for the price to rise to amaximum of $7.09. The Administrationstmngly opposed the rollback provision.

The bill also broadened theinterpretation of the unemploymentcaused by the energy crisis to apply to"fuel- allocation, fuel-pricing,consumer-buying decisions deariyinfluenced by the energy crisis andgovernmental action associated with the

energy crisis." 'Ihe original provisionprovided relief only to those unemployedas a direct result of the energy shortage.

In 6scal 1974, $500 million isauthorized to be appropriated for use bythe President to make grants to states ~

for unemployment benefits.Conversion by any plant to coal from

oil would require approval of the FederalEnergy Emergency Administration(created by the act). In the previousversion, any fuel conversion was exemptfrom air pollution requirements, and nofederal agency approval regardingenvironmental impact was required.

Loan authorization to small businessesand homeowners to install insulation,storm windows and more efficientheating units was restored. TheDepartment of Housing and UrbanDevelopment and the Small BusinessAdministration would be authorized tomake such loans.

PALM BEACH COUNTY Health Officer Dr. Carl Brumback met with Congressman Paul Rogers (D-Fla.) in Washington D.C. recently todiscuss public health legislation which Rogers is sponsoring in the House of Representatives. Dr. Brumback and Dr. Bernard Barman,Oakland County (Mich.) Commissioner testified about the legislation to a subcommittee which is studying it, on behalf of the NationalAssociation of Counties. Pcitured above, from left, are Berman, Brumback, Rogers, and Ralph Tabor, Federal Affairs Director of NACo.

They also strongly supported theprinciples of decategorization,decentralization, comprehensiveness andlocal accountability implicit in healthrevenue sharing legislation.

The NACo representive urged theadoption of-anew-costeharing formula inwhich the federal government would paybetween 40 and 60 percent of theexpenditures incurred by state and localpublic health programs. The newprovision would substitute the 6xedallotment which is now available to statesand local governments. This allotmentrepresents only five percent of theexpenditures incurred by state andcounty health services.

The cost sharing pmposal wouldcomplement national health insurance,the health subcommittee was told. Anational health insurance plan would6nance personal health services; the costsharing proposal would finance public orcommunity-wide programs relating todisease control, health hazards andpreventive health serrices impacting on a6the people or particular segments of thepopulation.

The doctor also endorsed thecontinuation of federal support forcommunity mental health centers. Hesaid that "without federal support, themajority of the centers in this countrywould not be able to continue providingthe same level of services."

Dr. Berman also voiced continuedsupport for the family planning programbut expressed reservations about thefunding mechanism. He advocated that a

formula approach replace the projectgrant approach now contained in thelegislation.

He also urged that locally electedofficials be given a greater say indevelopmental disabiTity councils nowcontrolled mainly by state governments.

He supported expansion of migranthealth center services to includeenvironmental health and urged that local

governments with the capability ofproviding environmental health servicesbe awarded funds to provide thoseservices directly. Neighborhood healthcenters were also strongly supported,

COUNTY NEWS —February 25, 1974 —Page 2

Unique Approach To Data Processing TriedNow six months into a unique

facilities management contract for theirdata processing operations, OrangeCounty, Calif. hss undergone a number ofrapid changes. 7his month a new Univac1110 will go on line, the fiat of two thecounty will use. And a whole new systemincluding a new concept in handlingcriminal justice information will be fullyoperational in another 18 months.

Orange County gave over its dataprocessing operations to ComputerSciences Corporation last August, signinga 7-year $26-mglion contmct. CSC is

managing the complete system at anaverage Bxed cost of $3.6-million peryear, relieving county supervisors ofincreasing data processing costs. Includedin the single contract are the needs formore than 25 departments, plus a numberof special projects. Criminal justicesystems, payroll, tax assessments andcollections, voter registration, andpersonnel records, some of whose needsare new or have needed updating, are allbeing integrated into a statewf-the-artdata management system, all with aguaranteed efficiency as part of theBxedeost package.

Survey Shows UsesOf Revenue Sharing

The following figures that show how79 Michigan counties used revenuesharing funds were compiled from theOffice of Revenue Sharing —Actual UseReports for the period January 1, 1972-June 30, 1973.

These figures represent the totals thatthe 79 counties have already used orcontractually obligated:

Operating/Maintenance ExpendituresPublic Safety ....... $7,882,029.00Environmental Protection 1,011,261.00Public Transportation .. 489,724.00Health ........... 7,007,992.00Recreation......... 817,786.00Libraries ...........~2,Q51.00Social Services forAged & Poor.........3,769,199.00Financial Administration 893,397.00

Capital ExpendituresMutri-purpose &Genend Government ...$ 2,610,059.00Education ......... 20,000.00Health ........... 602,923.00Tmnsportation ...... 1,707,023.00Social Development ... 120,654.00Housing &Community Development . 79,286.00Economic Development . 24,500.00Environmental Conservation 210,617.00Public Safety ....... 1,428,662.00Recreation & Culture... 489/86.00Miscellaneous* ...... 5,094,052.00

*Miscellaneous includes expendituresfor such thin(9 as libraries, countybuildings, bridges, airports, parking lots,streets, social services, jails.

77re 79 counties reported expendituresand contractual obligations totaling$ 34,563,452.00 out of a reported$52,908,964.00 (65 percent) received forthis period.

In 27 counties revenue sharing fundsavoided a debt increase and six countiesindicated a lessened debt increase becauseof the funds.

In three counties, revenue sharingfunds allowed the reduction rate of amajor tax (property tax). In 22 counties,the funds prevented an increase in therate of a major tax, and 25 counties

~ indicated the preventing of enacting anew major tax. Four counties indicatedthe Revenue Sharing funds reduced therate of increase of a major tax.

Facilities management is a new term tocounty government. But the federalgovernment and private industry haveused it increasingly over the past twodecades, especially in high technologyareas. What benefits counties can achievefrom facilities management remains to beproven, but there is solid evidence ofpersonnel and equipment savings.

Some savings are almost immediate.Orange County sees a specific savings ofmore than $500,000 in the acquisition ofnew computer equipment. The county

also expects to realize $ 1.5-million insavings per year, for a total of $11-millionover the term of the contract. But thegreatest benefit to county supervisorsmay well be the fixed contractual budgetfor current services and for contemplatednew programs and senrices several yearsahead.

There are also several secondary typesof savin(9. 'Ibe county does not have tohire outside consultants or newspecialized personnel. 'Ihere- is likewisequicker turnaround time from decision

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Board Cha.irmJean Oxley has been named Chairman

of the Linn County, Iowa Board ofSuerpvisors for 1974, perhaps the Bratwoman to hold such a chairmanship inthe history of the state.

Mrs. Oxley, who joined the board ayear ago, was the Brat woman to becomesupervisor in the county. It is believed shemay be the Sist woman to be elected toany Linn County of5ce.

A former Chairman of the LinnCounty Democratic Committee, sheresigned from that post and from her job

First Womanan In Iowa

as adult program director for the CedarRapids YWCA, when she becamesupervisor.

Supervisor William Martin, last year'chairman, moved to name Mrs. Oxleychairman, saying she may be the Brat tohold that post in the state.

It has been customary in the county toname chairmen in alphabetical order.Richard Wenzel is the third supervisor onthe board.

There are currently seven womensupervisors in Iowa. Linn County has apopulation of 163,213.

Don't Sing When You'e In ItEditor's note: Here is a little fable

din'.cted toward those ieho sing iukiieuiorking.

It goes like this:An old Russian peasant was going

along the road one very cold morning,when he saw a bird lying on the ground.At Sist, he thought it wss dead, but whenhe picked it up, he felt a faint heartbeat.

He was about to throw it away, whenhe chanced upon a cow that had justdropped a large pancake of hot manure.The peasant buried the bird in themanure up to its little beak and went on

his way. After a time the hot manure didits work and the birri revived.

When it revived, it began to sing. Awolfheard it ringlng, pulled it out and ateit.

This is the end of the story, butremember —most Russian stories have amoraL This one, in fact, has three.

Rssti Whoever puts you in it is notnecessarily your enemy.

Second: Whoever takes you out of it isnot necessarily your friend.

'birds Ifyou are up to your neck in it,don't sing!

THE ORANGE COUNTY computer center with Computer Sciences Corporationemployees monitoring printed reports. This facilities management team serves more than30 county departments. Operating continuously, the computer center will have a large,new Univac 1110 computer to handle more than 1,600 county prognuns.

to equipment acquisition.A primary concern for any county

considering a similar change is what willhappen to personnel. 'Ihe CSC contractcontained an offer of employment to allcounty employees. Each person wasinterviewed; most transferred over —98percent of those available.

'Ihe assumption of responsibility bythe outside management group went offwithout a hitch on August 7 of this year.And within 30 days various countydepartments commented on impmvementof services.

Availability of a hill-time technicalmanager to deal with specific datahandling problems as they arise has beenthe chief catalyst to more efficientoperation. CSC has also bmught in severalof its computer programming specialiststo deal with restructuring some of the1600 programs in the current system.

The supervisors wanted to pmvide topcounty managers with better informationon their own operations. The new systemcontains statistics on personnel andinventory. Until now information aboutage, pay, position, tenure, educationaland skill levels statistics have beenhandled manually. County officials,likewise, need to know how much t'axmoney is tied up in inventory and whatmaterial turnover rates are.

The county plans to reorganize itsdepartmental sturcture to eliminatecertain service duplications. And indetermining its new objectives, thecounty will use ~ CSC for technicalimplementation.

CSC's approach is twofold. To keepcosts down, it has recommendedmodificiation of available CSC<evelopedprogram packages. The facilitiesmanagement firm is also looldng atcounty objecbves from a systemsviewpoint, developing technicalproceditres that will satisfy the needs ofcounty ofBces and departments withinthe limits of defined objectives. Underthe cunently adopted plan, countydepartmental analysts will continue toevaluate departmental functions and dataneeds.

The management group, besideshandling the operation and maintenanceof the existing data processing system hastwo other functions. First, it mustmeasure the operational efBciency of thesystem on a monthly basis.

Second, it must convert the presentsystem to an 1110 Univac. 'Ihe companyguaranteed a smooth transition to thenew system, which would be ready andoperating in two years. 'Ihe plansapproved by the county supervisorsadditionally eall for a number of ways forimproving a justice information systemover the: next few yeah. 'Ihe supervisorswanted a modem criminal jusbce systemthat would lower costa and expedite

What might be the most Innovativeelements of the new OrangeCounty-originated system me theautomation of court proceduresthemselves. Under development is a"Subject-in-pmcess" programs in whichindividual's record is kept as he goesthrough the justice system, such as

booking, bonding, appearing in court, anddisposition. 'Ihe record is sealed if thereis no conviction or, it could be carriedonto a jail automation system, in whichprisoner inventory, or weekend sentencesare followed and recorded.

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NACo History New DirectionsHelp for the Elderly

Macon County (I)t) has mformafiy received three proposals for programs the countycould implement to assist the elderly. Subject to availability of funds, they are purchasinga mini-van which would make weeldy stops in rural areas to pick up older persons whocannot drive and take them into the city to shop, visit a doctor, or take care of otherbusiness; using part of the county's federal manpower revenue sharing funds to createjobs for older residents in beautification projects; and joining with the City of Decatur inestablishing an Office on Aging.

Alger and Marque//e counties in Michigan are launching a new pmgram to provide onehot meal a day, five.days-a-week to persons 60 and over. 'The project is partially fundedby 7IBe VII of the Older American Act; other costs are being covered by local "in kind"contributions. Plans eventually eall for 15 sites to be in operation and for home-deliveryof meals to those unable to get to central dining rooms. There willalso be an informationand referral center staffed by volunteers and for regular visits by representatives of publicsocial service departments.

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-v the Ballot Boxby Richard G. Smolka

National Assoc/at/on of County Recorders JI ClerksAmer(can Unieers/ty Inst/fute ofElection Administration

'Ihe General Accounting Office has return. 'Ihe GAO summary describes howprepared a background summary of the funds will be accumulated in a special$1 check-off on the 1973 Income tax fund in the U.S. Treasury until 1976

when distribution will be made according

Fto the formula provided by law.ed eral 'Ihe GAO estimates that the fund willprovide each of the two major political

Rparty candidates with more than $21egulahons million based on the legal provision for15 cents times the certified voting-age

ReviewedProposed federal regulations have been amting to the

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o Federal Elections,ceived by NACo for review and Genenl Accounting Office, 441 G St.,

N.W. Washington, D.C. 20548.comment. These regulations are currentlybeing analyzed by county officials andNACo staff to determine their impact oncounties. Due to the size of some of theregulations, NACo is unable to providecopies of afi issues. At the end of eachdescription it is noted whether or notcopies are available.

H copies are available, please write toCarol Shaskan at NACo. As an addedservice we will be separately listing finalissuances which are available fromagencies.

(74-9) HEW "Public Ass/stanceIncapacity in AFDC". Theproposedregulations are intended to clarify thedefinition of incapacity and require thatit be uniformly applies nationwide. Thefollowing two requirements woulddetermine whether a parent isincapacitated. That the existence of adefect, illness or impairment, as

supported by competent medicaltestimony would substantially reduce theparent's capacity to provide support orcare to the child.

(74-10) DOL "Changes Io StatePlans "The purpose of this regulation is toset out the procedures by which theAssistant Secretary for OccuaptionalSafety and Health will require submissionand review of state supplements inresponse to federal program changes thatimpact on the effectiveness of stateprogmms. Copies are available.

Phillip S. Hughes, who had beendirector of the office since it wasestablished, is now Assistant ComptrollerGeneral and directs a new office ofenergy and special projects in the GeneralAccounting Office. Under his direction isthe Office. of Federal Elections nowheaded by L. Fred 'Ihompson who had

~ been deputy director of that office.Hughes received a 'ockefeller PublicService Award for administration, one offive federal employees to receive thisaward during 1973. The award, whichcarried a $ 10,000 tax-free cash grant,recognized Hughes'ork in overseeinginvestigations into 1972 'residentialcampaign spending.

Election Study ProgressTire Office of Federal Elections is now

conducting several research projects,including the nearly completed survey ofstate and local election boards, and astudy of voter registration systems. Theformer is to be completed on March 1,1974, the latter on April I, 1974.

Other studies in process include oneon absentee registration and voting whichwill be completed in September, 1974.Copies of these will be provided free ofcharge to election officials upon request.

NACo HISTORY CAPTURED: CA. 'Tabby" Grant, (center) retired Executive Directorof the Utah Amociation of Counties, presents to NACo Executive Director BernardHifienbrand and Rod Kendig, Ditector of County Resources Department, a copy of theHistory of NACo, 1948.1963. Drawn from excerpts of NACo and Utah newsletters, thepersonally prepared history covers NACo's early days, including the formation of a fulltime'taff.

Alcohol ProgramsFairfax County (Va) has one of 35 alcohol traffic safety programs, funded by $8

million in grants from the U.S. Department of Transportation. Alcohol-related deathshave declined from 50 in 19'/I before the program began, to 22 in 1973. The main aspectof the progmm is that not only are police and judicial officials involved but so are healthspecialists and counselors who assist individuals arrested for driving while under theinfluence of alcohol.

In St. Louis Counly, (Mo.) the Alcohol Related Traffic Offender Program (ARTOP)'has been extended to afi municipal courts in an effort to combat the increasing problemscaused by drinking and driving.

Prior to January 1, 1974, the federally funded program was available only to personsconvicted at the magistrate court level of driving while intoxicated. The program, whichrepresents an attempt to involve the total community in fighting the drunken driverproblem, has four objectives: to educate and rehabilitate the driving-while-intoxicatedoffender for avoiding future such arrests; to identify participants who are alcoholics orwho have a drinhng problem; to provide referral for further heatment of alcoholism; andto remove individuals sahsfactoriily completing the program from the high-risk accidentgriiup.

In addition to the educational course given by the community services division of theSt. Louis County Department of Welhre, the program makes use of existing communityservices such as those offered by the Greater St. Louis Council on Alcoholism, AlcoholicsAnonymous, and various treatment and rehabilitation centers throughout themetropolitan area.

A Case of Need'Ihe Buncombe Counly (N.C.) board voted unanimously to pmvide as much as

$200,000 for construchon of a school which wBl be a part of the Asheville OrthopedicHospital and Rehabilitation Center. The school willhelp up to 150 handicapped childrento continue their education while they are being tmated at the center.

Emmet County, Michigan, as well as other areas in norther Michigan, have given newhope to victims of kidney disease. 'Ihe first traveling, artificial kidney center, a mobilehemodialysis unit, has been helping those people who normally would have to travel asmuch as 300 miles-round-trip I'or dialysis treatments.

HopefuBy, this idea will be tried in other ared 'crf.k|rkrse population such as Nevada,upper New England and the Dakotas in the near future.

Telephone AidThe Los Angeles County (California) Board of Supervisors ham 'st apthorized the

county's Department of Public Social Services (DPSS) to op . re a 24-hour-a-daytelephone information center to help the homeless and hungry. 'Ihe DPSS has beenoperating a 24-hour service program for child placement and medical services and willnow expand to include information and referral services for persons in need of otherkimh of help during night-time hours, on weekends and holidays. The service, expectedto be in operation by the end of March, will use a weB-publicized telephone answeringservice which will refer callers to the agency engaged in service delivery that night,weekend or holiday.

Westchester County N.Y. has established a county-wide system to hear complaintsabout the lack of heat in apartments, or other multiple dwefiinip. The new program isdesigned to promptly handle complaints at the local level through several districttelephone numbers.

EMS SenriceSuffolk County N.Y. is totally committed to a pish for a unified emergency services

system. Already in affect, the plan includes a system to rapidly report the need foremergency help, and promptly respond by trained personnel who can give the pmper care

at the scene as well as on the way to the hospital. It willalso include integrating hospitalswithin the system so that patients will be directed to'one which is properly equipped tohandle their particular case. A public education program willalso teach residents how toobtain emergency care as quickly as possible.

Innovative Manpower Program PlannedMecklenburg County (N.C.) in anticipation of prime sponsorship under the

Comprehensive Employment Training Act, is designing a manpower program that adds

county personnel system re(orm to the traditional manpower service goals. Focusing onthe theme "quality —not quantity", the county hopes to pmmote job training primarilyfor women and minorities, with an emphasis on moving such people into county jobs.Depsite the lack of Labor Department regulations and questions about its efigtbBity forfunds, the county is moving ahead with plans to create a Department ofPersonnel/Manpower as a step toward implementation of the program.


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Getting Them On RecordGeorge Lehr, County Executive

of Jackson County, and Chairmanof NACo's Taxation and FinanceSteering Committee, has come upwith what we think is an excellentidea.

He is urging every county, cityand state official to contactincumbent United StatesCongressmen and Senators who are

up for election this fall, and alsothose who file against them, to getthem on record with respect togeneral revenue sharing. Theprogram will be up for renewal in1975.

We all know that this programhas many enemies. We think it veryimportant that county, city andstate officials use the comingnational Congressional. races as a

proper vehicle to build support forthis enormously important

DrunkenIn June 1970, the Department

of Transportation began funding a

series of grants to states andcounties to create alcoholic safetyprograms. The plan was to create asystem in which drinking driverswould be interviewed bycounselors, health specialists andskilled social workers. Experiencehad proven that the traditionalpunitive treatment such as licenserevocation, fines or jailing do littlegood in keeping the alcohol user offthe highways.

'xplosive DisposalMeeting Planned

'Ihe Sacramento County Sheriff'aDepartment is sponsoring a NationalExplosive Ordinance Disposal ConferenceMarch 17-22 in Sacramento, Calif.Sacramento County Sheriff Duane Lowesaid the conference 'is directed towardcivilian and military explosive techniriansand investigators. Further details areavailable from Chief Deputy Harold V.Guerin, Sacramento Sheriff'sDepartment, P.O. Box 988, Sacramento,Calif. 95805; (916) 441-3441, ext. 343.

program. It is important to allci tizens that Congressionalcandidates be on record aboutgeneral revenue sharing.

We believe that any reasonableincumbent Congressman or Senatoror a candidate for these offices canbe persuaded to be a strongsupporter of general revenuesharing based solely on its meritsand accomplishments to date.There certainly is no need at all tobe apologetic, defensive or timidabout general revenue sharing.

It is not too early. Many stateswill be holding primary elections inMay and June; Illinois has itsprimary next month. Bymid-September, we should make ita point to know every candidates'sposition on revenue sharing.

Remember the lessons of 1972.We made it an issue in that electionand we can do it again.

DrivingSome results of this program are

now in. In Fairfax Countyx,(va.)which has one of the 35 programsnow being funded, alcohol relateddeaths have declined from 50 in1971 before the program began to22 in 1973.

Ifthis reduction holds nationallywhere the 55,000 annual trafficfatalities are alcohol related, thesavings in lives and property wouldbe immense. It is also important tonote that some 19,000 of the27,000 annual alcoholic relateddeaths involved problem drinkersrather than social drinkers.

Those arrested for drunkendriving want help.

Again, if the experience inFairfax County is repeated in theother 35 communities, 91 percentof those arrested for drunkendriving enrolled in various

'ounseling programs.This looks like an enormously

significant program and ought to beadequately funded and pursued.

The Assessor's Ofgce of San DiegoCounty is conducting on-the-job trainingfor foreign government property taxofficials, according to E.C. Williams,County Assessor.

"To my knowledge, this is the 6tsttime that programmed, on-the-jobtraining in assessmeat practices andvaluation procedure has been Igven in thiscountry to representatives of foreigngovernments," Williams said.

The first two participants in thepmgrsm have already started training.

Chorib Samsul is from Jakarta,Indonesia. Employed as chief of theDivision of Research and Analysis in theIndonesia Department of Finance, he iss p onsored by the Agency forInternational Development.

Africa is represented by Frederick A.Mandara, whose home is inDarmakalaam, Tanzania. Man dare isemployed as Finance OI6eer in theRevenue Division of the Treasury. 'IheGovernment of Tanzania is sponsorin histrip to the United States for this training.

Prior to their amval in San Diego,these two men completed six weeks ofacademic study in property taxadministration at the University of

Southern California Institute for TaxAdministration in Los Angeles.

Norman D. Nowak, director of theinstitute, cited the reputation of the SanDiego County Assessor's OI6ce in invitingit to assist in the training program.

nqhis office is known for excellence inadministration, operations, and effectiveuse of computers," Nowak said, rand isideally suited for training representativesfrom those countries seeking toimplement a progressive assessment andproperty tex system."

Assessor Williams said therepresentatives will receive a three-monthcomprehensive training program in hisofgce that will include all phases of theoperations with personal instruction bymembers of his staff.

Along with the on-ihe-job training, themen will visit families in the communityand many educational aad recreationalfacilities.

Plans are now underway for tworepresentatives from Guam to begintraining here soon.

"We hope this will be an on-going'rogram with representatives from

countriies worldwide coming here fortraining," Williams said.

THE AMERICAN WAY - Chorib Smasul, left, of Indonesia, aad Frederick A. Mandara,center, of Tanzania, feceive instructions from E.C. WIUiams, San Diego County Assessor.The Assessor'office is conducting a unique on.ihe-job training program I'or foreigngovernment property tex officials.

NEW YORK VISITORS: Recent visitors to the NACo offices in Washington were twocounty leaders from Orange County, N.Y. James Lulves (I) is Chairman of the OrangeCounty Legislature and Louis Mills (center) is County Executive. Talking with them isNACo Director of Federal Affairs Ralph Tabor (r).

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Special Workshop To FollowRegion IV Federal Briefing

by Aliceann Fritschler

A workshop for state, county, city andfederal regional officials is beingsponsored by the Atlanta FederalRegional Council in cooperation with theNational Association of Counties,National Governors Conference, theNational League of Cities, InternationalCity Management Association, MunicipalFinance Officers Association, andNational Association of RegionalCouncils will be held at theS heraton-Biltmore Hotel in Atlanta,Georgia, March 21 and 22.

It is being conducted jointly by theOffice of Management and Budget, theGeneral Accounting Office and theGeneral Services Administration.

The federal workshop will follow theNACo Council of IntergovernmentalCoordinators (CIC) Region IV FederalAid Bnefing will cover the followingtopics: Comprehensive Employment andTraining Act, Crime Control Act, OlderAmericans Act, Emergency MedicalServices Act, Federal Aid Highway Act,Flood Disaster Protection Act, energycrisis, Federal Regional Councils.

The registration fee for the NACo/CICbriefing is $ 15 and willbe collected at themeeting. Please use the room reservationform below. For information on theNACO/CIC briefing contact DeWayne

Little, President, Region IV CIC, DadeCounty, Florida at 305.377-5311.

The GSA-GAO-OMB workshop isdirected toward the administration offederal grants. The program will stresspractical problems and encourageparticipation by those in attendance. Itshould be particularly valuable formanagement officials of state and localgovernments. Program topics include"Use of OMB Circular A-87;""Implementafion of OMB GrcularA-105;" "Auditingof Federal Grants."

Because of the increasing federalemphasis on transferring managementresponsibility to grant recipients, all stateagencies and local governments withfederal grant programs should considersending a representative. Federal officialsfrom Washington and the regions will bein attendance and be available to discussspecific problems.

The space available is limited so it isimportant to register in advance. Therq isno registration fee.

Each participant will be responsiblefor his own travel, lodging, and foodcosts. The Sheraton-Biltmore Hotel inAtlanta has set aside rooms for thosere q u i ring overnight accomodations.County officials should contact themimmediately to confirm a reservation.

Questions concerning the federalworkshop should be directed to Philip M.Dearborn of GSA at 202-343-8821.

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The meeting will begin at 9 a.m., March 20 and end at 5:30 p.m.

The Bureau of Outdoor Recreation hasapproved a $750,000 Land and WaterConservation Fund grant to New Jerseyto help acquire nearly 3,000 acres of landin the Coastal Pine Barrens of BurlingtonCounty. The acquisitiori, known as SimPlace, will provide additional outdoorrecreation opportunities for the residentsof the southwest region of the state.

James G. Watt, director of the Bureauof Outdoor Recreation which administers

the Land and Water Conservation Fund,said the project illustrates how federaland state governments can cooperate inestablishing a nsdonal "legacy of parks."The grant will be matched by New Jerseyfor a total recreation investment of$ 1,5000,000.

At the state level, the Land and WaterConservation Fund program isadministered by the New JerseyDepartment of Environmental Protection.

Interior Funds Burlington County Purchase

Asphalt QuestionnaireNACE Members should have received

or will shortly receive a questionnairefrom American Association of Statelfighway and Transportation

Officials'AASHTO)

committees asking forinformation on asphalt use and needs.'Ihe Federal Energy Office (FEO) hasexcluded asphalt from the mandatorypetroleum allocation regulations and soonthere could be little or no asphaltavailable. (See NACE column, February18.) 'Ihe AASHTO committees will usedata from these questionnaires to preparea statistically sound case to present toFEO officials. As the instructions withthe questionnaire indicate, replies mustbe sent by March 1, 1974 to H.A.Lindberg, Secretary, AASHTO OperatingSub-Committee on Construction, FederalHighway Administration, Washington,D.C. 20590.

New Guide for Traffic AssignmentTraffic Assignment, Methods,

Applications, Products can helptransportation planning personnel andlocal government administrators whomust be able to evaluate tmfficassignment results. The manual presentsavailable techniques for estimatingtransportation network loads including asection on small area traffic estimation;discusses operational decisions necessaryfor applying traffic assignmenttechniques; describes uses for the trafficassignment procedure other than thetraditional network planning application;and evaluates assignment processproducts. Information for the manual wasgathered from states, local urban studies,councils of governments, consultingfirms.

A limited number of free copies isavailable from the Urban PlanningDivision, Planning and ProceduresBmnch, Federal iflghway Administration,Washington, D.C. 20590, orSuperintendent of Documents, U.S.Government Printing Office,Washington, D.C. 20402, $2.45, stocknumber 5001-00060

Standards for Acquiring Federal LandUniform Appmisal Standards for

Fedeiul Land Acquisitions (1973 edition)has been prepared to obtain uniformityamong various agencies acquiringproperty on behalf of the United States.'The publication is the result of theInteragency Land AcquisitionConference's Committee on UniformAppraisal Standards working with experts .

on teal property appraisal. Chapters coverstandards to help solve recuning appraisalproblems.

A limited number of free copies isavailable from the Land AcquisitionDivision, Office of Rightwf-Way, FederalHighway Administration WashingtonD.C. 20590, or —Superintendent ofDocuments, U.S. Government PrintingOffice, Washington, D.C. 20402, 35cents, stock number 5259-0002.

DOT Report on Rail ServiceRail Service in the Midwest and

Northeast Region is a comprehensivereport on the Secretary of

'ransportation'sconclusions andrecommendations on geographic zones inthe midwest and northeast region whererail service should be provided. Accordingte the secretary, the report can be used toprovide guidelines for developing a viablesystem that meets the rail service needs ofthe regions. 'Ihe report was prepared by a

joint task force from the Federal Railroad

Administration and Office of Secretarystaff.

For free copies of this three. volumereport write to Marlene Glassman atNACo.

Warning on Use of Jumper CablesImproper use of jumper cables to start

cars can cause serious injury. Chaitgnfbatteries releases a mixture of hydrogenand oxygen gases that can produce grea.explasions if a spark or flame is broughttoo near. 'Ihe following method ofstarfing a dead battery (on American canonly) with jumper cables appeared in theJournal of the American hfedicalAssociation and was developed by Dr.Frederick H. Davidorff, of Ohio StateUniversity.

1. Connect one end of a cable to thepositive pole of the discharged battery.

2. Then connect the other end to thepositive pole of the booster battery.

3. Connect the second cable to thenegative pole of the booster battery andthe other end to the engine block of thevehicle with the discharged battery withthe connection on the block as far fromthe discharged battery as possible.

4. After starting the car, remove thecable from the engine block first, thenremove the other end of this cable fromthe booster battery. Disconnect the othercable, first, from the newly rechargedbattery, then from the booster battery.

4CIR PrintsInformationBulletin

The February issue of UrbarInformation Systems Report, a quarterlyon computerized informationdevelopments in local government is nowavailable from the International CityManagement Assoeiatlon.

These reports are published by ICMAwith the cooperation of the NabonalAssociation of Counties, the NationalLeague of Gties, U.S. Conference ofMayors under a contract between PublicTechnology, Inc. and the Department olHousing and Urban Development. Theprimary purpose of these reports is tadisseminate information about USAC'sintegrated municipal information systems(IMIS) program among local governmentadministrators.

Induded in this issue are brief reportson computer applications developed inLong Beach, California and Dayton,Ohio; a geocoding pmject in Des Moines,Iowa; a conference on privacy andsecurity in computer systems at theNational Bureau of Standards; a citymanager's assessment of IMIS impact onhis city; a Canadian team's visit toexamine Washington areas'inancial andaccounting management informationsystems; and a discussion of the focus anddirection of the USAC pmgram.

Additional information and copies ofthis (and the December 1973) issue ofthis report can be obtained by wriring toMartin Anochie, Project Director,Management Development Center,International City ManagementAssociation, 1140 Connecticut Avenue,N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.

NACE "Matter and Measure"National Association of County Engineers


Guidance Provided For New Prime SponsorsNeighborhood Youth Cmps, OperationMainstream, and the Public EmploymentPmgnun.

Resources have included funds (several

SystemsHave you established the management

systems needed to run a comprehensivemanpower program?

Have you established 6nancial andinformation subeystems?

'Have you developed the systemsneeded to deliver employment andtraining services?

technology and personnel systems. Tberesources induded tens of billions ofdollars, thousands of skilled people, andmassive data capability.

Similarly, in the area of employmentand training programs, the nationalmission expressed in the "generalwelfare" clause of the Constitution hasbeen developed in terms of a nationalpolicy of fostering maximumemployment (1946) and helping thedisadvantaged in the labor market(1960's).

Key agencies have been the ManpowerAdministration and the Of6ce ofEconomic Oppmtunity. Key systemshave been the various categoricalmanpower programs, such as

Under the new ComprehensiveEmployment and Training Act of 1973many counties will take over manpoweroperations for the tint time on July 1.Basic management decisions must and canbe made, with or without LaborDepartment guidance, before July 1.

Most should be under activeconsideration now.

Bve decision levels -'mission, policy,agency, systems, and resources —arebasic to all government activities. As anexamples, the national space program ofthe 1960's had ss its mission spacesupremacy. The policy was to land a manon the moon 5rst. 'Ibe agency was.NASA. 'Ibe systems included dozens ofmanagement, information, procurement,

billion dollars annually), skilled staff, andrelevant facts.

Now, over 50 million Americans look,not to the federal government, but tocounties for manpower services.

With this challenge in mind, NACo'sManpower Project staff has developed thefollowing 'scorecard for county officialsand is prepared to offer help on eachitem.

NACo is keenly aware that this 5rstspecial revenue sharing bill offers countiesan opportunity to deliver human servicesgeared to the needs ot their constituents;many will be watching closely to see howcounties do.

ResourcesHave you the people who can do the

job?Do you know where to Bnd the right

people?Have you the facts you need to plan

and do the job?Have you the funds you need to get

started?Have you investigated and obtained an

Operational Planning Grant fmm theDepartment of Labor?The deadline for answering thesequestions varies from yesterday to June30. The Department of Labor'sregulations and training will be helpful,but cannot make decisions for you.

It the decision on prime sponsorship ispositive, a county must inform theAssistant Regional Director torManpower by March 1. 'The notice ofintent to be a prime sponsor mustinclude:

Equal Rights AmendmentAdvancing In Legislatures

MiiuionIs your county government on record

to its residents as having a mission in thearea of employment and trainingpmgrams?

~ Do you have an advisory councilwhich af5rms the new federalism'spmposition that local government knowsbest the needs of its people?

sex. ERA, however, will not deprivewomen of alimony, custody of children,or child support. It will only require thatmen be eligible for alimony under thesame conditions as women.

Women, generally, have far moredif5culty establishing credit than do men.Often a wife's income is not counted ifamamed couple applied for credit. Womenwho many are required to re-apply forcredit under the husband's name.Although ERA will not have a directaffect on private sector credit, it willdirectly abolish sex discrinination inpublic, government-insured, creditprograms, such as the FHA and VA loanprogmnw.

Editors note: Material for this articleuus taken from the Status Report onRa rifice ti on of the Equal RightsAmendment (January 23, 1974/ endERA information dcueloped by CommonCause. The August 1973 issue of theCounty Manpower Report featured anartie/e on the Equal Rights Amendmentsas it affects unemployment. Copies ofthis article are aue//able by writing theNACo manpower staff.

The Ohio State Legislature hasrecently ratified the Equal RightsAmendment, bringing the total numberof states ratifying it to 33.

Maine and Montana ratified theamendment last month and five morestates (or a total of 38) are needed for theamendment to become part of theConstitution.

'Ibe Equal Rights Amendment states:"Section 1. Equality of Rights Under

Law shall not be denied or abridged bythe United States or by any state onaccount of sex."

"Section 2. 'Ibe Congress shall havethe power to enforce, by appropriatelegislation, the provisions of this artide."

"Section 3. 'Ibis amendment shall takeaffect two years after the date ofratification."

The 33 states ratifying it are: Alaska,California, Colorado, Connecticut,Delawam, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas,Kentucky;

Maine, Maryland, Michigan,Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana,Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey,New Mexico, New York;

Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, RhodeIsland, Tennessee, Texas, South Dakota,Vermont, Washington, West Virginia,Wisconsin, Wyoming.

Several state legislatures are expectedto vote on the Amendment this year. 'IbeBorida legislature convening in Aprilandrunning for 60 days, has had severalEqual Rights Amendment bills pre-filledin both houses. 'Ihe Biinois legislaturereconvenes in March and in Indiana, theERA bill is cunently in the GovernmentAffairs Committee.

Louisiana's legislature convenes May13 for a 60-day session. Mississippiconvened in January and rema(ps insession for 60 calendar days, whileMissouri has a four-month session thatbegan in January.

Oklahoma, South Carolina, andVirginia have legislative sessions thatconvened in January. Georgia rejected theAmendment this year. Because of statelaw, the North Carolina legislature cannotreconsider the ERA amendment untilJanuary 1975. Utah will not beconsidering ERA this year. Four states,Alabama, Arkansas, Nevada, and NorthDakota, do not have legislative sessions in1974.

'Ibe Equal Rights Amendment willaffect many existing laws. Domesticrelations and community pmperty lawswill be based on individual needs, not onsex. ERA wilt mitigate against a greaterliability of one spouse simply because of

PolicyHave you established policy priorities

on who shall be served by employmentand training pmgrams in your county?

Have you established policy fordetermining who shall deliveremployment and training services in yourcounty?

Have you decided how much of yourmanpower?avenue share will be used forpublic service employment?

Name and addn.'ss of applicant.Geogmphical area(s) to be served.Population of area(s) to be served.Certi6cation that potenrial prime

sponsor has the mquired general'overnmentalauthority, defined as a unit

of general local government or othergeneral purpose political sub&visionwhich has the power to levy taxes andspend funds, as wyll as geneml corporateand police powers. (Sec. 601(10).]

Certi5cation that the development otthe applicant's plan will be in accordancewith the directions speci5ed in the actand regulations (e.g., involvement ofcommunity-based groups, involvement oflocal elected of6cials of the areas to beserved).

Signature of the chief elected of5cialor chief executive officer as appmpriateof the prime sponsor's jurisdiction

AgencyHave you decided whether or not to

be a prime sponsor?Have you decided whether or not to

enter a consortium with otherjurisdictions?

Have you decided where to place themanpower operation in your countyorganizational structure?

Health Care Developments

by Mike Gemmell,Director

Human Resources Center

County, U.S. A. Center AchievementAward Pmgram has presented awards to atotal of 304 counties in a wide range ofcounty service and administrative areas.

The purpcae ot the award pmgram isto give national recognition to progressivecounty developments and at the sametime to build an information base ofdetailed case histories on countymodernization programs which can assistother county of5dals. There is no limiton the number of pmgrams which may beentered; however, each entry must beaccompanied by a completed entry formand a 6-10 page case study detailing thebackground, need for program,responsibility for program development,mle of the county, Bnances and legalaspects, and detailed programaccomplishments.

March 31, 1974 is the Bnal date bywhich entries can be received to beconsidered for presentation at the MamiBeach (Dade County), Bx AnnualConference, July 14-17, 1974. Write toNew County, U.S.A. Center for entryform and guidelines or use theadvertisement on page 12 of the February11 County News.

prepared by NACo. In addition we haveprepared a brief analysis of the status ofhealth porgrams and national healthpolicy issues. Copies may be obtained bywriting Karen Bey at our Washingtonof6ce.

This issue of Counly News contains acolumn enbtled "New DirectionsinHuman Resources". The column is aregular feature that attempts to highlightprogressive developments in countyhuman resource pmgrams. We need tohear from you on what new health and/orhuman services (e.g., social services,manpower, criminal justice, etc.)pmgrams and projects are being plannedor implemented in your county. Please

'Ibe Department of Health, Educationand Welfare has folded under pressure todrop the proposed hospital pre-admissioncertification requirements under theMedicare-Medicaid utilization reviewprocess. 'Ibe deadline for comments onutilization review regs has been extendedto March 11.

NACo has received formal notigcationfrom HEW's General Counsel's Of6cethat county health of5cers with M.D.degrees may serve on the newly formedprofessional standard reiveworganizations (PSROs). PSROs are peerreview organizations composed ofpracticing physicians charged withmviewing and assessing medical servicesuendered patients covered underMedicare and Maternal and Child Healthprograms. Tire- issue was whether acounty health of5cer was considered a"practicing physician".

An indepth analysis of the healthsection of the Nixon Administration'sproposed FY 75 budget has been

send us news dippintp and new releasesso we can use the examples in thecolumn. 'Ihe human resources itemsappear every third week. Also sharingspace in the column are "New Directionsin Community Development" and theoriginal "New Directions" column ofNACo's New County Center.

Submit your county's health and/ormedical services program as a potentialrecipient of a NACo County AchievementAward. Now in its fourth year, the New

HEW Drops Pre adm-ission Certification

COUNTY NEWS —February 25, 1974 —Page 'I

Economic Grant GoesTo 16 New York Counties Hillenbrand 5'e

Washington ReportApproval of a $90,000 grant to help.

continue a program of management andtechnical assistance to create jobs andincrease incomes in a 16~ounty area ofNew York was announced recently byWilliam W.Blunt, Jr., Assistant Secretaryof Commerce for EconomicDevelopment.

The Research Foundation of the StateUniversity of New York, Albany, appliedfor the grant from the EconomicDevelopment Administration, U.S.Department of Commerce.

The funds will be used to help payadministrative costs of the TechnicalAssistance Center of the State Universityof New York at Plattsburgh.

The center provides businessmanagement counseling and technicalassistance in support of long rangeindustrial growth and communitydevelopment in northern New York.Counties served by the center are Clinton,Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Greene,Hamilton, Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis,

Montgomery, Oneida, Oswego, St.Lawrence, Schoharie, Warren andWashington.

Special assistance also is providedthree multi-county economicdevelopment district organizationsworking to solve regional problems andcreate new jobs in economically laggingareas. The districts are EasternAdirondack, Mohawk Valley and BlackRiverSt. Lawrence.

The Research Foundation of the StateUniversity of New York will provide$32,500 to complete the $ 122,500 totalcost of continuing the program of theTechnical Assistance Center through June

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Dear County Of6cial:One of the few positive things coming

out of the Watergate scandals and thedeadlock between the President andCongress is a new appreciation and respectfor the vigorous leadership of state, countyand city governments.

The latest leader of the news media toreport on this was the much respectedDavid S. Broder, a nationally syndicatedcolumnist. In a February 20 article, hepoints to the fact that recent reports by theAdvisory Commission onIntergovernmental Relations and reportsfrom Common Cause document that states,counties and cities, are taking the lead indeveloping codes of ethics; campaignspending reforms; and above all, leading inenergy conservation.

We are proud that our counties havebeen way in front of the federal'government with respect to energyconservation. It is signiTicant, for example,that Supervisor James Hayes of LosAngeles County, who is chairman ofNACo's Energy Task Force, was the firstofficial in the United States to subpoena oilcompany executives. He called them beforehis county board to explain oil companypolicy as it affects the present energy crisis.One of our counties, Hawaii, (the .bigisland), was the first unit in the UnitedStates to institute gasoline rationing.

Certain states, like Maryland, are leadersin reducing speed limits to conserve energyand of course we'e all familiar with thefact that Governor Tom McCall of Oregonis the author of the alternate daydistribution of gasoline.

We are hopeful that the inaction of thefederal government will begin to attractmore people like Davis S. Broder to reporton the outstanding job that so many of ourstates, counties and cities have been doing,not only in these but in other areas.

We would cite the concluding paragraphof Dave's column.

"The contrast between the stumbling ofthe national government, both legislativeand executive, and the improvingperformance of state and local governmentsis largely an unreported story. If it werebetter known, perhaps the voters would beless prone to turn automatically to theSenate for the 1976 presidentialcandidates."

More Revenue SharingPresident Nixon, on February 19, asked

Congress to apply the revenue sharingconcept to a new program of federal aid todepressed areas. The President isrecommending that at least 80 percent ofthe federal grants should be made availableto states and localities to be used with aminimum of federal supervision. Theprogram envisions federal spending atabout $ 305 million annually but withstates and communities assuming a muchlarger role in planning and administration.Funds would be distributed on the basis ofa formula which would take into accountunemployment levels,'opulation,dispersal, income levels and other factors.

have never known in some parts of theworld." Fertilizers are in large part madefrom oil and natural gas.

Post Card RegistrationThat infamous Post Card Registration

(McKee Bill S. 352) bill which ourrecorders and clerks strongly oppose, is stillin the House Administration Committee. Itpassed the Senate last year and may verywell come before the House this session, sobe sure you speak to your Congressmen. Aresolution passed by NACo members at theDallas convention pointed out several basicproblems in the legislation including thepotential for disorder and confusion at thepolls leading the disenfranchisement ofeligible voters, duplication of registrationprocesses and increased costs, and mostimportantly the unlimited possibilities forfraud and political mischief.

Congressional RacesThree NACo board members have

already announced for the fallCongressional races. NACo director, MayorRichard Lugar of Indianapolis-MarionCounty, will run for the Senate seatpresently held by United States SenatorBirch Bayh.

NACo Vice President Dan Lynch ofDouglas County, Neb. and Ed Crawford ofBroome County, N.Y. have both throwntheir hat in the ring for the fallCongressional seats in their area.

NACo director George Lehr of JacksonCounty, Mo. has announced for stateauditor.

Another former NACo board member inthe news is Senator Mariow Cook ofKentucky who has just announced forre-election. 1

No MotorcyclesDistrict of Columbia Police Chief Jerry

V. Wilson is disbanding the '63-membermotorcycle squad for the District ofColumbia. The action is a result of a studywhich concluded that the motorcycle is themost expensive per mile vehicle in thepolice department. The study saidmotorcyc)e officers use about one third oftheir gasoline driving their motorcycles toand from work. There are additional costfactors. Due to the high injury rate andensuing hospital and disability payments,the squad is extremely expensive. ChiefWilson also pointed out that - newmotorcycles cost $ 3,000 more than a squadcar and to top it all off, two-thirds of aBspeeding arrest cases were made bypolicemen in cars or motor scooters'andnot by motorcycle men.

The move will not be popular in thepolice department since motorcycle menreceive $ 680 extra pay per year plus theuse of the motorcycle to and from work.

Sincerely yours,

FamineA Seante agricultural subcommittee has

heard warnings that fertilizer shortages inthe United States are raising the spectre ofworld famine. Senator Hubert H.Humphrey (D-Minn.) said, "We have thepossibility of a famine in dimnesions we

Bernard F. HillenbrandExecutive Director

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28- Mar. 2 "Revolution in Campaignand Election Law"

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21 -22 GSA-GAD-0MBRegion IV Workshopon Federal GrantFinancial Management

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