Protecting, maintaining and improving the health of all Minnesotans
November 25, 2014
Dear (Community Health Board Administrator):
As you know the Minnesota Department of Health is moving from an Assurance and Agreement
covering three grant programs: Local Public Health Act, Title V Maternal and Child Health
Block Grant, and TANF Family Home Visiting Program to three separate “Grant Project
Agreements”. You have already received the grant project agreement from the Office of
Performance Improvement for the Local Public Health Act grant funding.
The Community and Family Health Division is in the process of completing the Title V Maternal
and Child Health grant project agreement and anticipates it being sent to you soon. TANF
Family Home Visiting funding is provided on a state biennium and funding does not carry across
bienniums. This makes awarding and tracking this funding on a calendar year much more
challenging. For this reason, the TANF grant project agreement will cover the time period from
07/01/2015 through 06/30/2017 (to match the state biennium). This grant project agreement will
be sent to you in early 2015.
As a transition measure, because of the delay in the start date of the TANF Grant Project
Agreement and the possibility that all Community Health Boards may not be able to obtain
necessary signatures on their Title V Maternal and Child Health Block grant project agreement
prior to January 1, 2015, I am, by this letter, automatically extending your Community
Health Board 2014 Assurance and Agreement until 06/30/2015. All provisions in that
Assurance and Agreement form that pertains to the federal funds you received will continue and
we will process the invoices submitted for that time period.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact me at 651-201-3584 or
[email protected].
Sincerely,
Janet Olstad
Assistant Division Director
Division of Community and Family Health
cc: CHB Chair
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