77-AARESOLUTION NO. 77-~
WHEREAS, the State of Florida is slated to receive over
ninety-nine million dollars ($99 million) in federal funds to
provide social services to needy Floridians under Title XX of
the SOcial Security Act, and
WHEREAS, over twenty-percent of these funds are being
received due to the proPortion of senior citizen~~ in the popu-
lation in-the State, and
WHEREAS, Title XX provides socia~ services predominantly to
low income persons, and
WHEREAS, a survey conducted by the Florida Department of
HRS in 1976 showed that senior citizens are the age group most
in need of expanded services, and
WHEREAS, the State of Florida Department of HRS prepared a
proposed State Plan on the distribution of $99.3 million dollars
in federal funds and $193.9 million dollars in general revenue
funds for 1977-78, and
WHEREAS, monies for services for the elderly were not
increased one cent in spite of the 1976 HRS survey showing the
elderly were the age group most in need of expanded services, and
WHEREAS, HRS's proposed allocation on only four percent of
the federal Title XX funds and four tenths of one percent of the
proposed state general revenue funds for Title XX services to
the elderly is a gross inequity, and
WHEREAS, even the small sum of monies being made available
for services to senior citizens under Title XX will not be
distributed equitably, and
WHEREAS, this additional inequity in the distribution of
funds will create a hardship on needy senior citizens, their
local governments and the agencies which serve them in sixty-four
of Florida's counties including our own.
WHEREAS, over twenty-four percent of the low income persons
in the State are senior citizens.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF BOMNTON BEACH, FLORIDA:
Section 1: That the City of Boynton Beach condemns the
proposed inequities in appropriations of Federal and State
general revenue funds in the proposed Florida Title XX Plan for
1977-78, and
Section 2: The City of Boynton Beach recommends ~hat~.the
FloridaLegis. lature-'~realto~ate~i~the federal and general revenue
funds in Title XX in order to enable the State's elderly to get
their fair share of these services, and
Section 3: The City of Boynton Beach further recommends
that those who prepared this plan which is so grossly inequitable
to older Floridians be brought to account for their action, and
Section 4: The City of Boynton Beach asks that each member
of Legislative delegation of Palm Beach County do everything in
his power to ensure that the elderly Floridians, their constitu-
ents as well as ours, are given their fair share of the federal
and state general revenue funds to be available under Title XX.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 3rd day of May, 1977.
'_(Corp. Seal)
City Cler~
CITY OF BOYNTON BEACH, FLORIDA
Council Member
C6uncil~ff~ber
Council Member
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