§ 50-01.1-04 — Plan - Financing - Human service zone board

North Dakota § 50-01.1-04

• Jurisdiction: North Dakota
• Title 50: Public Welfare
• Ch. 50-01.1: Human Service Zones

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50-01.1-04 within six months of receiving the plan. The board of county commissioners
shall provide quarterly updates as requested by the department to the department
after the agreement is approved until the plan is submitted as requested. If counties do
not submit an agreement or plan or if the agreement or plan is rescinded or terminated
by the constituent counties or by the department pursuant to section 50-01.1-02,
50-01.1-04, or 50-01.1-08, the department shall create the human service zone. The
department shall establish the date the approved agreement or plan takes effect.
4. The agreement and proposed plan must be approved or disapproved by the
department in accordance with section 50-01.1-03.
5. A county with a population exceeding sixty thousand individuals according to the 2010
United States census may submit an agreement and proposed plan to operate as a
single human service zone or to consolidate with other counties into a human service
zone.
6. Counties shall consider leveraging existing cooperative agreements between county
agencies and shall consider how to collaborate to best meet local need, promote
efficiency, service delivery, and ensure quality service.
7. Counties' plan must allow nonresidents of the participating counties of a human
service zone to access human services.
8. Counties' plan must continue to provide funding for indirect costs associated with the
service delivery of human services pursuant to chapter 50-35.
9. Counties' plan must set forth that the human service zone director may hire and
impose disciplinary actions on a human service zone team member. The counties' plan
must specify any role transitions for human service zone team members as well as the
procedures for team member grievances, appeals, and disciplinary actions. The
counties' plan must also permit the department authority to reduce full-time equivalent
positions in combination with a transfer of the positions or a human service zone team
member's separation from employment. The component of the plan developed under
this subsection must be consistent with merit system requirements, chapter 54-44.3
and corresponding rules, and the template developed by the department for the
human service zone plans under section 50-06-01.4.
10. The counties' plan must specify that reductions in access points may only be made
with agreement of the human service zone board, the county commissions of affected
counties, and the department.
11. The counties' plan must include information regarding the human service zone's
liability coverage for the human service zone board, human service zone director,

human service zone team members, human service zone property, and any unique
contractual relationships with the state, other human service zones, or other entities.
12. Counties' plan must include a statement of agreement between the human service
zone and the department allowing for review of proposed transfers of staff from the
human service zone to the department, from the department to the human service
zone, or among other human service zones. Approval by human service zone board or
the county commissions is not required.
13. Counties' plan must include a description of all unique locally provided programs and
services that the counties are proposing to continue to provide within the human
service zone and to be funded under this plan.
14. Counties' agreement and plan must set forth the membership of the human service
zone board of a human service zone. The human service zone board may not consist
of more than fifteen members, as determined by the boards of county commissioners.