Appointee Sought for Human Services Appropriations Committee

The Escambia County Board of County Commissioners is seeking Escambia County residents interested in volunteering for an appointment to the Human Services Appropriations Committee (HSAC). 

The HSAC shall concurrently review agency funding requests to Escambia County and the City of Pensacola, making funding recommendations individually to both bodies in accordance with policy and procedure agreements with each. No members of the Committee shall be a member or employee of, or serve on any board of, any of the requesting agencies reviewed by the Committee. The term of office is three years.

HSAC Process*

The coordination of applications, site visits and oral presentations by United Way of Escambia County takes place from January-May. The partner agencies applying for funding from the Human Services Appropriations Committee are required to submit an application that has the designated HSAC-related application questions, as well as a program budget. Additionally, applying programs are required to host a site visit and provide an oral presentation on their proposal to the HSAC. The funding schedule for the HSAC was changed three years ago to run parallel with the United Way’s Funds Distribution Process. This change was able to create efficiencies in United Way’s staff and volunteer efforts to facilitate this process.

Time Committment

The following is a breakdown approximation of hours served on this Committee:

• Planning meeting and training for upcoming grant review process: November (2 hours)
• Grant Application Review and submission of questions to applicants: March (1 hour per application- number of applications vary from year to year)
• Site Visits/Oral Presentations: April (1.5 hours per applicant plus 15-20 minutes travel time between visits)
• Scoring of applications and/or site visits: March-Late April (10-15 minutes per application)
• Final Deliberations/Funding Recommendations meeting: May (2 +/-hours)

*Prepared by: Marlena Lewis, Partnership Manager- United Way

Escambia County residents interested in serving on the Human Services Appropriations Committee are asked to submit a resume and letter indicating their desire to serve by the close of business on Wednesday, October 7, 2015.  Resumes should be submitted to Judy Witterstaeter, Program Coordinator, Board of County Commissioners, P.O. Box 1591, Pensacola Florida 32502 or emailed to [email protected].