Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Nicole Pollack, Director, Human Services Agency
Subject: Memorandum of Understanding between the California Automated Consortium Eligibility System for CalACES and the Welfare Client Data System Consortium Counties
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution authorizing the President of the Board of Supervisors to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding between the California Automated Consortium Eligibility System and the Welfare Client Data System Consortium.
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BACKGROUND:
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Food and Nutrition Services agencies of the United States Department of Agriculture directed the State of California to migrate to a single Statewide Automated Welfare System ("CalSAWS") by 2023. The impetus of this directive was to reduce the financial cost to the State of managing and maintaining three different systems currently used by counties and to standardize the eligibility, benefit determination, enrollment and case management functions of the State's major health and human services programs. The three social services computer systems used by the 58 California counties are:
* Los Angeles Eligibility, Automated Determination, Evaluation and Reporting ("LEADER") is used only by Los Angeles County.
* Consortium IV ("C-IV") is used by 39 counties.
* Welfare Client Data System ("WCDS") Consortium is used in 18 counties, including San Mateo County.
The first step in establishing CalSAWS was Assembly Bill ABX1 16 (2011), which required the C-IV consortium and LEADER to combine into a jointly designed system referred to as CalACES. CalACES formed on September 1, 2017, through a Joint Powers Agreement (JPA), and is comprised of forty (40) California counties.
The remaining eighteen (18) California counties, including San Mateo County, participate in the Welfare Client Data System ("WCDS") consortium for the ...
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