City Council Agenda and Packet 1978 04 04

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IV • to-►+ork together on devslopint'3 plan for different elements of en integrated ' human services delivery system. Vital to the project is a systems coordinator to direct the fats collection, . to put the information together, and to organise the planning efforts. This proposal is to request s full-time staff person to provide this tocheical assistance in a joint state and local. partnership to demonstrate the feasibility of establishing such a system. - " The time frame for this project is one year. The first six months will produce a preplanning document of information describing the human services needs and the resources and processes which currently address those 'maids. The second six month period will produce a plan fora better coordinated or integrated human services deliver system,, addressing such components as a more efficient intake process, single purpose application process, improved referral and follow-up, management information system, and others that are deemed necessary and feasible to the planners and the Human Services Council, Description of GeogLruhic Area and Local Inter-Government Al +Averatton The geographic area to be included in this partnership project is Boulder County with all its political jurisdiction and agencies. Boulder County, Colorado, is on* of the major counties in the Denver Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its current population is reliably estimated at about 181,000, and was officially determined at 131,899 by the 1970 Census. Most areas of the County are within an hour's commuting distance from Denver. The topography of the County is varied, with agricultural open country in the eastern half, and mountainous terrain along the western half of the County. The major political units and their projected population, to date, are as follows: Unit Type Size Boulder County County government 181,000 Boulder City government 80,000 Broomfield City goverment 18,000 Erie Town government 500 Lafayette City government 6,600 Longmont City government 35,000 Louisville City government 5,000 Lyons Village government 1,000 Nederland Town government 540 Superior Town government 250 Ward Town government 101 The hoped for results of the project, to be developed during the six month planning stage, are the various inter-governmental and irtcr-.agency agreements necessary to promote service integration. At the outset, with the leadership of the Boulder County Board of County Commissioners, the support of n1L city and town councils will be sought through their representatives on the Consortium of Cities. The various jurisdictions on the Consortium of Cities are presently engaged in a study of inter-governmental coordination and have been consistent in their affirmation that only through this cooperation can all governments further develop to serve the electorate.