There is hereby established a Nutrition Reserve Fund under the control of the Director of the Department of Aging. From the fund the director may allocate to any individual nutrition project for any fiscal year no more than three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) in order to maintain necessary services which lack sufficient federal funding.

A nutrition project shall not receive more than one appropriation from the Nutrition Reserve Fund during the duration of the contract period of the project.

Terms Used In California Welfare and Institutions Code 18331

  • 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
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.

Requests for allocations from the Nutrition Reserve Fund shall be reviewed by the applicable local area agency on aging. The local area agency on aging shall submit recommendations to the California Department of Aging.

(Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 713, Sec. 59. Effective September 15, 1992.)

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