TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Ryan J. Alsop, County Executive Officer
REPORT BY: John Buzolich, Deputy County Executive Officer
SUBJECT: Appointments to CANV Board
RECOMMENDATION
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Adopt a Resolution appointing the Director of the Health and Human Services Agency and the Director of Housing and Homeless Services or their designees to the Community Action of Napa Valley Board of Directors. (No Fiscal Impact; Discretionary)
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BACKGROUND
Community Action Boards were established under the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act and the Community Services Block Grant Act of 1981. The federal Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) funds local Community Action Agencies (CAAs) to carry out a variety of activities designed to reduce poverty, revitalize low-income communities, and empower low-income families and individuals to become self-sufficient.
The Napa County Council for Economic Opportunity (NCCEO) was established under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 and incorporated as a non-profit organization and registered with the state of California on April 26, 1965, to receive and administer federal funds locally for programs to combat poverty. Over time, the economic opportunity councils evolved into community action agencies. NCCEO was renamed the Community Action of Napa Valley (CANV) and established as a private nonprofit organization by the Board of Supervisors in 1987. CANV was registered as a successor agency to NCCEO with the State of California on September 13, 2001.
In accordance with both Acts referenced above, Community Action of Napa Valley's basic purpose is to stimulate an effective concentration of all available local, state, private and federal resources to empower families and individuals of all ages to attain the skills, knowledge and motivation to secure the opportunities needed for them to become fully self-sufficient. CANV is required under federal and state law to have tripartite boards of directors in order to be eligible to receive block ...
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