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2.400.030 Authority and functions.
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(1) The department shall have the authority to administer and coordinate county programs and projects relating to human services in accordance with county, state and federal laws or regulations. All applications for federal or state grants or loans to such county programs or projects shall be submitted to the department for review and recommendation as to their consistency with state, regional, local or other plans or policies and their potential duplication or conflict with other application, all for the purpose of maximizing federal or state benefits available to the county.

(2) The department’s scope of authority shall include, but not be limited to the following functional areas:

(a) Programs providing employment, training, and other supportive services designed to minimize the barriers to employment encountered by economically disadvantaged persons and to enable such persons to secure and retain unsubsidized employment in the public and private sectors of the economy;

(b) Programs providing financial and social and health services to the elderly designed to remove or reduce any barrier that interferes with the elderly’s ability to live independently;

(c) Programs designed to ensure that the needs of developmentally disabled persons are met;

(d) Programs that provide any of the services mandated by the State Involuntary Treatment Act chapter 71.05 RCW;

(e) Programs designed to ensure that the needs of the mentally ill are met;

(f) Programs related to the problems of alcohol and other drug abuse;

(g) Energy assistance programs for low-income populations;

(h) Programs that provide technical assistance and education for the agricultural industry;

(i) Program that develop and support healthy youth, families and community development;

(j) Early Childhood Education and Assistance programs;

(k) Programs that provide relief for indigent veterans in need of food, rental assistance, medical care or transportation; and

(l) Programs related to housing, including but not limited to low and moderate-income housing, emergency shelter, and affordable housing.

(3) Separate advisory boards required by state or federal funding sources or created under state and/or county code will continue to act in an advisory capacity for the separate program areas relating to aging, employment and training, mental health, alcohol and other drug abuse, developmental disabilities, veterans, children, youth, families, housing and other program areas. These advisory boards will make recommendations to the director of the department of human services on the separate county program areas. (Added by Ord. 82-111 § 1, Oct. 26, 1982; Amended by Amended Ord. 05-107, Nov. 21, 2005, Eff date July 1, 2006; Amended by Ord. 19-073, Nov. 12, 2019, Eff date Nov. 28, 2019).