KRS 273.441: Duties of community action agency.

(1) Each community action agency shall:

(a) Plan systematically for an effective community action program, develop

information as to the problems and causes of poverty in the community;

determine how much and how effectively assistance is being provided to deal

with those problems and causes; an d establish priorities among projects,

activities, and areas as needed for the best and most efficient use of resources;

(b) Provide planning or technical assistance to agencies; and generally, in

cooperation with community agencies and officials, undertak e actions to

improve existing efforts to reduce poverty, such as improving day -to-day

communications, closing service gaps, focusing resources on the most needy,

and providing additional opportunities to low -income individuals for regular

employment or par ticipation in the programs or activities for which those

community agencies and officials are responsible;

(c) Initiate and sponsor projects responsive to needs of the poor which are not

otherwise being met, with particular emphasis on providing central or

common services that can be drawn upon by a variety of related programs,

developing new approaches or new types of services that can be incorporated

into other programs, and filling gaps pending the expansion or modification of

those programs;

(d) Establish effective procedures by which the poor and area residents concerned

will be enabled to influence the character of programs affecting their interests,

provide for their regular participation in the implementation of those

programs, and provide technical and other support needed to enable the poor

and neighborhood groups to secure on their own behalf available assistance

from public and private sources;

(e) Join with and encourage business, labor and other private groups and

organizations to undertake, tog ether with public officials and agencies,

activities in support of the community action program which will result in the

additional use of private resources and capabilities, with a view to developing

new employment opportunities, stimulating investment th at will have a

measurable impact on reducing poverty among residents of areas of

concentrated poverty, and providing methods by which residents of those

areas can work with private groups, firms, and institutions in seeking solutions

to problems of common concern.

(2) If a community action agency places responsibility for the character, funding,

extent, administration of, or budgeting for programs of the agency with another

agency or organization, public or private, it shall do so by contract. No contract

shall be made with an agency or organization which does not have a board which is

broadly representative of the citizens of the geographic area served by the agency or

organization.

(3) Each community action agency shall comply with the provisions of KRS 65 A.010

to 65A.090.