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§ 458-n. Funding for family support services programs. 1.\nNotwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, to the\nextent that funds are available for such purpose and specifically\nappropriated therefor, the office of children and family services shall\ndistribute funding to the highest need municipality which shall mean a\ncounty or a city with a population of one million or more to contract\nwith not-for-profit corporations to operate family support services\nprograms in accordance with the provisions of this title and the\nspecific program model requirements issued by the office.\n 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, when\ndetermining the highest need municipality pursuant to this subdivision,\nthe office may consider factors that may include,
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§ 458-n. Funding for family support services programs. 1.\nNotwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, to the\nextent that funds are available for such purpose and specifically\nappropriated therefor, the office of children and family services shall\ndistribute funding to the highest need municipality which shall mean a\ncounty or a city with a population of one million or more to contract\nwith not-for-profit corporations to operate family support services\nprograms in accordance with the provisions of this title and the\nspecific program model requirements issued by the office.\n 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, when\ndetermining the highest need municipality pursuant to this subdivision,\nthe office may consider factors that may include, but are not\nnecessarily limited to:\n (a) the total amount of available funding and the amount of funding\nrequired for family support services programs to meet the objectives\noutlined in section four hundred fifty-eight-m of this title;\n (b) relevant, available statistics regarding each municipality, a\ngroup of two or more municipalities that jointly seek to fund and\nadminister a family support services program in accordance with\nsubdivision four of this section which may include, but not necessarily\nbe limited to:\n (i) the availability of services within such municipality to prevent\nor reduce detention or residential placement of youth pursuant to\narticle seven of the family court act; and\n (ii) relative to the youth population of such municipality:\n (1) the number of petitions filed pursuant to article seven of the\nfamily court act; or\n (2) the number of placements of youth into residential care or\ndetention pursuant to article seven of the family court act as\napplicable, over the last five years;\n (c) any reported performance outcomes reported to the office pursuant\nto subdivision three of this section for programs that previously\nreceived funding pursuant to this title; or\n (d) other appropriate factors as determined by the office.\n 3. Municipalities receiving funding under this title shall report to\nthe office of children and family services, in the form and manner and\nat such times as determined by the office, on the performance outcomes\nof any family support service program located within such municipalities\nthat receives funding under this title.\n 4. Two or more eligible municipalities within a close geographic\nwithin a close geographic proximity to each other may enter into an\nagreement to jointly seek funding for and jointly administer family\nsupport services programs to service eligible youth and families within\nsuch municipalities in accordance with this section. Such agreements\nshall include provisions for the proportionate cost to be borne by each\nmunicipality and for the manner of employment of personnel and may\nprovide that a fiscal officer of one such municipality shall be the\ncustodian of the moneys made available for expenditure for such purposes\nby all such municipalities and that such fiscal officer may make\npayments therefrom upon audit of the appropriate auditing body or\nofficer of his or her municipality. In making claims for state aid\npursuant to section, each such municipality shall claim for its\nproportionate share of the total joint expenditures so made. However,\nwhere it is provided that there shall be a disbursing municipality, such\ndisbursing municipality shall claim for the total joint program\nexpenditures so made and shall disburse such state aid to each\nparticipating municipality based upon the proportionate share of\nexpenditures so made.\n 5. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivisions two, three and four\nof this section, a municipality, consistent with its approved plan for\nsupervision and treatment services for juveniles program, may utilize\nany funding available to such municipality pursuant to section five\nhundred twenty-nine-b of the executive law to fund family support\nservices programs pursuant to this title.\n