HomeMy WebLinkAbout961726.tiff United Way of Weld County, Inc.
814 - 9th Street
P.O. Box 1944
Greeley, Colorado 80632
970-353-4300
970-353-4738 Fax
September 10, 1996
Judy Griego
Department of Social Services
P.O. Box A
Greeley, CO 80632
RE: Response to letter of September 6th
Assessed Fee for Use of A Kid's Place
Dear Judy:
This letter is in response to your letter of September 6th regarding fees for use of A Kid's
Place. I have shared you letter with both Rick Dill and Al Dominguez. Both concur with
the following response to your questions:
The user fees were agreed to using the following assumptions:
• A Kid's Place is used by law enforcement and Social Services as part of their
investigative role mandated by state law. Therefore user fees are appropriate in
support of overall budget of A Kid's Place separate from grants and fundraising
efforts.
• The portion of the total budget directly related to supporting the interviews and
investigative process is at least one third of the annual budget.
• Agencies would be charged only for interviews for which they were the lead agency.
• The formula for apportioning the user fee will be determined on an annual basis. The
previous years total interviews divided by 1/3 of that years budget(or the % of the
budget directly involved with the investigative process if less that 1/3) will determine
the fee per interview. Each agency's percentage of the total number of interviews will
determine their user fee for the following year(i.e. the 1997 user fee is based on 172
interviews conducted from 4/95 through 3/96 at a fee of$100 per interview, Social
Services was lead agency for 12% or 21 interviews. Therefore the Department's user
fee for 1997 is $2,100.)
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In response to your specific questions:
1. United Way is not requesting funding, rather users of A Kid's Place are agreeing to
pay for the use of the program in their investigative role. The Weld County Department
of Social Services user fee is only $2,100 for the entire year of 1997. The above
statement describes the establishment of the fee. It will be figured using the same
formula described above in the Spring of 1997 for the 1998 budget year. As this is a user
fee it will not be impacted by donations or grants.
2. Since this user fee process was negotiated in good faith by the current users, we did
not anticipate noncompliance. If an agency does not pay, the A Kid's Place Committee
will have to decide if that agency can continue to access the program.
3. We would prefer quarterly or yearly payment of the fee. Since the fee is based on past
not current usage, use of the program will effect only the next year's fee.
We also agreed that after this first budget process of user fees, we would amend our
contract in 1997 to reflect the formula not actual fees.
If you need further clarification, please let me know.
Sincerely,
dy Kron, upervisor
A Kid's Place
cc: Connie Harbert
Don Warden
Al Dominguez
Rick Dill
Mike Ketterling
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