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Iowa Code (Last Updated: December 05, 2016) |
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Title IX. LOCAL GOVERNMENT |
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Chapter 331. COUNTY HOME RULE IMPLEMENTATION |
Section 331.391. Regional finances.
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1. The funding under the control of the governing board shall be maintained in a combined account, in separate county accounts that are under the control of the governing board, or pursuant to other arrangements authorized by law that limit the administrative burden of such control while facilitating public scrutiny of financial processes.
2. The accounting system and financial reporting to the department shall conform with the cost principles for state, local, and Indian tribal governments issued by the United States office of management and budget. The information shall segregate expenditures for administration, purchase of service, and enterprise costs for which the region is a service provider or is directly billing and collecting payments and shall be identified along with other financial information in a uniform chart of accounts prescribed by the department of management. Following periodic review of administrative costs, the department shall make recommendations, in consultation with the legislative services agency, for standards defining region administrative costs and the methodology for calculating a region’s administrative load. Such standards shall be specified in rule adopted by the state commission.
3. The funding provided pursuant to appropriations from the mental health and disability regional services fund created in section 225C.7A and from performance-based contracts with the department shall be credited to the account or accounts under the control of the governing board.
4. If a region is meeting the financial obligations for implementation of its regional service system management plan for a fiscal year and residual funding is anticipated, the regional administrator shall reserve an adequate amount for cash flow of expenditure obligations in the next fiscal year. The cash flow amount shall not exceed twenty-five percent of the gross expenditures budgeted for the combined account or for all regional accounts for the fiscal year in progress. Residual funding remaining after the cash flow amount is reserved shall be used to expand the region’s core services under section 331.397, subsection 4, and then to make additional core service domains available in the region as enumerated in section 331.397, subsection 6.