A. The board of supervisors or the governing body of a city or town may appropriate monies and take all actions necessary to establish, operate, maintain, coordinate and fund summer youth employment and training programs for at-risk youth.

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 11-1042

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • At-risk youth: means children who are eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen or eighteen years of age at the time they begin receiving services pursuant to this article and who are one or more of the following:

    (a) Identified by a law enforcement agency or juvenile court as in need of services provided pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 11-1041

  • Population: means the population according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Summer youth employment and training programs: means programs to enhance the basic skills of youth and prepare them for participation in the labor force and includes activities consistent with the summer youth employment program of the federal job training partnership act (P. See Arizona Laws 11-1041

B. From the state appropriation made for purposes of this article, the department of economic security, on or before July 5 of each year, shall distribute the monies for the purpose of funding summer youth employment and training programs for at-risk youth as follows:

1. Seventeen and one-half per cent of the monies shall be distributed to counties with a population of two million persons or more.

2. Twenty-three and one-half per cent of the monies shall be distributed to any city within a county with a population of one million persons or more if the city has a population of nine hundred thousand persons or more.

3. Eleven and one-half per cent of the monies shall be distributed to any city within a county with a population of one million persons or more if the city has a population of two hundred fifty thousand persons or more but less than nine hundred thousand persons.

4. Twenty-seven and one-half per cent of the monies shall be distributed to counties with a population of one million or more but less than two million persons.

5. Twenty per cent of the monies shall be distributed to counties with a population of less than one million persons. Monies under this paragraph shall be distributed among the counties based on the proportion that the population of each county bears to the total population of all counties under this paragraph.

 

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