This letter transmits the development of a new rule with a proposed effective date of July 3, 2011. If changes are made to the rule prior to its finalization by the Joint Committee on Agency Rule review, the corrected rule will be sent in a future transmittal.

Background

This new rule is being proposed to designate the term "project area" for the pilot project Collabor8. The Collabor8 project involves seven county departments of job and family services that will work together under a common agreement to process and manage administrative workloads as one project area. The seven counties included in the project are Delaware, Hancock, Knox, Marion, Morrow, Sandusky and Wood.

Proposed Policy

Current food assistance policy designates a county as a project area. With Collabor8, the project area will include the above seven counties. For the other agencies in these counties, no changes are being made. This change will allow the Collabor8 counties to keep cases open when participants move within the seven counties.

CRIS-E

CRIS-E changes will be made to allow cases to remain open when participants move within the seven counties in the Collabor8 project area. However, these changes will not be completed by the effective date of this rule.

The following rule is being proposed for implementation:

CHAPTER 1000

5101:4-1-16,"Food assistance: Collabor8 project area."

This rule establishes what a project area is for the Collabor8 pilot project.

Instructions

The following chart identifies the material that should be removed from the Food Assistance Certification Handbook and the material that should be added.