How does the level of funding for the FFFS and the General Fund compare to prior years?
Year-to-year funding actually received by districts is projected to remain essentially the same or increase modestly. However, we recognize that since a single district FFFS allocation will replace separate funding amounts for different programs, year-to-year impacts for individual districts will need to be determined by each district. Districts will have flexibility to determine how much of the FFFS funding is assigned to the various TANF eligible programs. There are no year-to-year reductions from TANF associated with any of the transfers of TANF programs to the General Fund. These programs will be funded at 2004-05 TANF levels and now will be budgeted in host agencies rather than through TANF and are as follows: Advantage After School, Alternatives to Incarceration, a portion of Child Care and Child Welfare amounts, Child Welfare Quality, Food Pantries, Home Visiting, Juvenile Justice, School-Based Health Centers and Women, Infants and Children (WIC). Also, related programs such as
