Offices on Youth-Base Funding

Item 475 #4h

Language
Page 328, line 25, strike "$2,018,732" and insert "$2,194,370".
Page 328, line 29, before "Out", insert "A."
Page 328, after line 32, insert:
"B.  The Department shall develop standards for the operations of Offices on Youth.  Included in these standards shall be the establishment of goals, quantifiable objectives and measures of evaluation of program effectiveness for each Office on Youth receiving funding from the Commonwealth.  The Department shall provide a report on its progress in developing these standards to the Chairmen of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance Committees by November 1, 2000."

Explanation
(This amendment provides $175,638 each year from the general fund to provide a minimal funding level of $37,350 for each of the 24 Offices on Youth, as recommended by the Commission on Youth.)