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Bruce Reed THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON October 17, 1994 MEMORANDUM FOR DOMESTIC POLICY COUNCIL FROM: Carol H. Rasco, Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy JK SUBJECT: DPC Agenda/Briefing Materials for Please note the following agenda and attached briefing materials for the Domestic Policy Council meeting scheduled for Monday, October 24, 1994 5:30-6:30 p.m. in the Roosevelt Room of the White House: AGENDA: I. Oregon Option: Federal/State Partnership II. President's Executive Order on Environmental Justice Please feel free to call my assistant, Rosalyn Miller, at 456- 2216 with any questions regarding this agenda or attached materials. Attachments CC w/o attachments: Leon Panetta Erskine Bowles Harold Ickes Billy Webster Dee Dee Myers Mark Gearan Katie McGinty DPC Program Staff UNITED STATES AGENCY UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY WASHINGTON, D.C. 20480 THE ADMINISTRATOR MEMORANDUM SUBJECT: October 24, 1994 DPC Meeting TOPIC: Environmental Justice TO: Addressees A key agenda item at the October 24, 1994 Domestic Policy Council meeting is a discussion of Executive Order 12898, "Federal Actions To Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations". I will update the Council on the implementation of the Executive Order and its importance to this Administration. In preparation for this meeting, please give some thought to the following questions in order to have an interactive discussion on this important social, economic, and environmental issue: How can your Agency incorporate environmental justice into its mission? How do you see environmental justice issues cross-walking with other issues such as affordable housing, health care, economic redevelopment, worker safety, small and minority business development? How can we improve interagency cooperation by creating or expanding projects that will help affected communities? How can we get early participation by communities, industry, state, local and tribal governments as the federal government develops its environmental justice strategies? We look forward to seeing you on October 24. If you have any questions or need additional information, please do not hesitate to contact Kathy Aterno at EPA at (202) 260-2600. Carol M. Browner Printed on Recycled Paper DOMESTIC POLICY COUNCIL BRIEFING IMPLEMENTATION OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 12898 Federal Actions To Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations OCTOBER 24, 1994 THE EXECUTIVE ORDER Issued and became effective February 11, 1994. It applies to sixteen federal agencies and those designated by the President that conduct activities that substantially affect human health or the environment. Federal agencies shall make achieving environmental justice part of their mission by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, disproportionately high and and adverse human health or environmental effects of their programs, policies, and activities on minority populations and low-income populations. Each agency must develop an agency-wide environmental justice strategy. The first draft of this strategy is due December 11, 1994; final strategies are due February 11, 1995. AGENCY PARTICIPATION ON THE INTERAGENCY WORKING GROUP ON ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE The Working Group is responsible for ensuring that the federal government carries out the mandates outlined in Executive Order 12898. The Working Group's responsibilities include: Providing guidance to Federal agencies on criteria for identifying disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects on minority populations and low income populations; Providing guidance and serving as a clearinghouse for each Federal agency as it develops its environmental justice strategy in order to ensure that the administration, interpretation and enforcement of programs, activities and policies are undertaken in a consistent manner. Coordinating research; Coordinating data collection; 1 Examining existing data and studies on environmental justice; Developing interagency model projects; Holding public meetings for the purpose of fact-finding, receiving public comments, conducting inquiries concerning environmental justice. The Working Group created a Subcommittee on Policy and Coordination and eight active Task Forces to assist in carrying out the interagency coordination activities. The task forces created and federal agency leads are: Implementation (CEQ and EPA), Interagency Projects (HUD and DOT); Definitions and Standards (EPA and DOJ); Enforcement and Compliance (DOJ and DOT); Research and Health (HHS and DOC); Data (DOC and HHS); Native Americans (DOI and USDA); and Outreach (DOD and DOE). SIX MONTH ACTION PLAN ACTIVITY TIMEFRAME LEAD Pre-meetings in Regions October 15-December 1 EPA/DOE/DOD on public meetings Conference calls begin early November between Task Forces and stakeholders Cabinet Secretaries begin November - April Cabinet public speeches/meetings on Environmental Justice Public Meetings early December - early DOE/EPA January Calls to all Agencies November 1-11 EPA checking on status of Draft Environmental Justice strategies Interagency Working Early December EPA Group meeting - Principals 2 DEADLINE: DRAFT DECEMBER 11 Cabinet STRATEGIES Review of draft strategies December 12-January 3 EPA/OEP/DPC Comments back to January 4 Interagency Working Agencies Group to Cabinet INTERAGENCY EARLY JANUARY Cabinet WORKING GROUP MEETING - PRINCIPALS Public Meetings January/February Interagency Working Locations to be determined Group DEADLINE: FINAL FEBRUARY 11 Cabinet STRATEGIES Review of final strategies February 11-March 31 EPA and produce report to White House Report by DPC/OEP to April 11 OEP/DPC President 3 The Oregon Option Domestic Policy Council Meeting October 24, 1994 THE OREGON OPTION DOMESTIC POLICY COUNCIL MEETING OCTOBER 24, 1994 BACKGROUND OREGON BENCHMARKS OREGON OPTION STATUS REPORT BENCHMARKS, by Cluster EXAMPLES OF PARTNERSHIP STRATEGIES STABLE FAMILIES HEALTHY CHILDREN DATA ANALYSIS LIST OF FEDERAL INTERAGENCY ACTION TEAM Clinton Presidential Records Digital Records Marker This is not a presidential record. This is used as an administrative marker by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library Staff. This marker identifies the place of a tabbed divider. Given our digitization capabilities, we are sometimes unable to adequately scan such dividers. The title from the original document is indicated below. Background Divider Title: OREGON BENCHMARKS What Are They? National Leader: Oregon is recognized nationally as the state furthest along in using outcomes to establish a long-range vision, set public priorities, allocate resources, design services, and measure results. Serve as Report Card: Oregon Benchmarks serve as critical indicators about the economy, the quality of life, and the citizens of Oregon. The Benchmarks track where the state (or county) stands and how it measures up to its target goals over a specified number of years (e.g. 1995, 2000, 2010). Benchmarks oblige Oregon and its localities to measure what they do by hard numbers, by agreed-upon standards. Measure Outcomes, Not Inputs. Benchmarks measure results, not effort. Some examples from Oregon: Whether air and water are getting cleaner, not whether environmental regulations are in place. Ten pregnancy (rate per 1,000 females aged 10-17 for each of the target years), not number of clients served. Crime rates, not prison beds (e.g., measures social harmony by hate crimes per 100,000 Oregonians per year). Urban mobility by the percentage of Oregonians who commute to and from work by some means other than a single occupancy vehicle. Literacy and other learning standards, not school and teacher expenditures. Citizen and Legislative Input: Goals are developed through broad popular participation (e.g., electronic voting at community meetings), then ratified by action of the legislature and governor. 272 Total Benchmarks: -- Urgent Benchmarks - addressed in the next few years (e.g., teen pregnancy); will impact many other benchmarks one or two decades out. -- Core Benchmarks - are longer-term measures of Oregon's vitality and health (e.g., the base of the state's economy). OREGON BENCHMARKS History Strategic Planning Process, 1989. Oregon Benchmarks began in 1988 with "Oregon Shines," a strategic planning exercise started by then-governor Neil Goldschmidt. "Oregon Shines" is a 20-year strategic vision focused on three main strategies: (1) creating a diversified, high-wage economy; (2) protecting and enhancing Oregon's quality of life; and (3) investing in the capability of Oregonians. Strategic Plan Translated into Measurable Goals: The Oregon Legislature created the Progress Board, directing it to translate the strategies in Oregon Shines into measurable goals for Oregon and make sure the process stays alive and on target. The board is headed by the governor and designed to be bipartisan. 1989. Citizen Input: Hundreds of Oregonians -- from business, labor, education, environmental groups, state and local government, the health care system and grass-roots organizations -- developed the benchmarks for the State. 1990 and continuous. Legislature Adopts Benchmarks: The Legislature unanimously enacted Oregon Benchmarks into law, after review by 18 state legislative committees. 1991. Public Report Card: Every two years, the Progress Board has to update the benchmarks and report publicly on progress toward each benchmark goal. 1991 and on-going. Use of Benchmarks to Govern: In 1992, Governor Roberts directed agencies to give priority to critical near-term benchmarks in the budget process, and directed all agencies to develop performance measures consistent with benchmarks. In 1993, Roberts, faced with a 17 percent budget shortfall because of a voter initiative, cut all state agencies' budgets even deeper -- 20 percent. Then she offered a 3 percent rebate to agencies able to shape their programs to achieve benchmark goals. The Legislature ratified almost all of Roberts' benchmark-targeted budget measures. Planning, budgeting and compensation systems are being directed towards the benchmarking goals. The three gubernatorial candidates have all endorsed use of Oregon benchmarks. Benchmarks and Communities: State and local government agencies, nonprofits, business interests, and citizen groups are increasingly tying their efforts to Oregon Benchmarks. The Progress Board assists local government and other institutions in adopting their own benchmarks and creating programs that support the achievement of Oregon Benchmarks. For example, Multnomah County and Portland have inaugurated a joint benchmarking process that incorporates the state benchmarks as well as additional benchmarks of most interest to local citizens. Rural Baker and Deschutes, and other, counties are also pioneering local benchmarking efforts. THE OREGON OPTION An Intergovernmental Partnership for Results Summary of Proposal Proposal: In July 1994, Oregon's governor and county and city government officials proposed a special partnership and long-range project with the federal government to test fundamental redesign of the intergovernmental service delivery to achieve results. Purpose: to encourage cooperation among federal, state and local entities to redesign and test an outcomes-based approach to intergovernmental service delivery. Why Oregon? Using its pioneering efforts in benchmarking as a base, Oregon is uniquely suited for an experimental demonstration to develop an outcome-based approach to intergovernmental services. The State and local governments have several years experience using an outcomes model for establishing long-range vision, setting public priorities, allocating resources, designing services, and measuring results. The Oregon Legislature has adopted the "Oregon Benchmarks." Nonprofit organizations, businesses, and civic groups in Oregon are aligned to a benchmark process with State, county and local jurisdictions. Demonstration: Can serve as a platform to demonstrate principles and practices which may lead to national improvements in the intergovernmental service delivery system. Principles to Guide Partnership. Oregon's proposal is based on principles advanced by the National Performance Review: Focuses on outcomes as the criteria by which to measure success Intergovernmental and interagency -- brings together the community, local, state and federal levels to agree on desired results and work together to achieve them (i.e., shared accountability) Oriented to customer needs and satisfaction, especially through integration of services Biased toward prevention rather than remediation of problems Systemic, sustainable change at all levels of the service delivery system to reduce red tape and micro-management Delegation of responsibilities for service design and delivery to front-line, local-level providers NOT about more money, but about re-directing funds to better achieve agreed-upon results. Initial Focus of demonstration is on Oregon's human investment benchmarks: Healthy children Stable families A developed (highly educated and prepared) workforce Clinton Presidential Records Digital Records Marker This is not a presidential record. This is used as an administrative marker by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library Staff. This marker identifies the place of a tabbed divider. Given our digitization capabilities, we are sometimes unable to adequately scan such dividers. The title from the original document is indicated below. Status Report Divider Title: Clinton Presidential Records Digital Records Marker This is not a presidential record. This is used as an administrative marker by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library Staff. This marker identifies the place of a tabbed divider. Given our digitization capabilities, we are sometimes unable to adequately scan such dividers. The title from the original document is indicated below. Status Report Divider Title: THE OREGON OPTION Project Status Report 10-24-94 Start-Up: Presentation on Oregon Option to large federal interagency audience by Oregon Governor Barbara Roberts, Multnomeh County Chair Bev Stein, and Portland Mayor Vera Katz. July 25, 1994. Congressional Consultation: Governor Roberts and other Oregon representatives briefed Oregon delegation. July 26, 1994. Federal Interagency Action Team organized under the guidance of the National Performance Review to partner with Oregon to further develop the Oregon Option. Representatives from Domestic Policy Council, Office of Management and Budget, and seven agencies (Health and Human Services, Labor, Education, Justice, Commerce, Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development). Meets weekly, with conference call participation by federal staff in Seattle and Oregon, and many Oregon representatives. Internal Federal Agency Work Teams being formed to involve array of policy, program, field, data, financial, grants administration, evaluation, auditing, and legal expertise, insight, and advice within each agency. Seven agencies at different levels on this. Working Visit to Oregon for partners to further develop the Oregon Option. September 18-21, 1994. Attended by over 40 federal staff from Washington and regional/state offices; and over 60 Oregon state, local and community representatives. Visited local service sites, discussed principles of partnership and Oregon Option, further developed memorandum of understanding, further defined benchmark and workgroup clusters, discussed benchmarks for initial focus, and began mapping specific strategies and changes needed to achieve benchmarks. Intergovernmental/Interagency Sub-Teams have formed around specific benchmarks and cross-cutting issues to further develop strategies and changes needed to achieve specific benchmarks: Healthy children cluster Stable families cluster Developed workforce cluster Data Analysis workgroup Financial/grants administration workgroup Memorandum of understanding workgroup Internal Oregon Teams: Oregon developing process to involve additional, broad representatives from state, local, private, and community based organization in development of the Oregon Option. Using the National Performance Review Model of providing space where staff comes together in teams, temporarily from their home organizations, to accomplish different pieces of the Oregon Option. Foundation Support: Ford Foundation announced Oregon Benchmarks as one of its ten coveted State and Local Innovation Award winners. September 29, 1994. Annie Casey Foundation asked Oregon and the Alliance for Redesigning Government to apply for funds for facilitation and capacity building to support the Oregon Option. September 30, 1994. Strategy Development to Achieve Outcomes: Sub-teams in various stages of developing strategies and identifying changes needed. Where authority to make changes already exists, we are NOT ASKING PERMISSION but just moving ahead. Where permission is needed, more details will be forthcoming. Some examples: Two teams likely to have very specific proposals in near future that will demonstrate tangible achievement on benchmarks. -- Healthy children cluster, with particular focus on increasing immunization rate of two year olds and prenatal care in the first trimester of pregnancy -- Stable families cluster, with particular focus on increasing number of welfare recipients placed in jobs Interagency data analysis team already forging ahead to provide technical assistance to Oregon to fill data needs (e.g., modeling race data from the 1992 Oregon Survey back to the 1990 survey in which such data were not collected; providing information on additional data sources where Oregon currently has data gaps; exploring Oregon's request to pay for additional sample size in Oregon in ongoing national surveys such is as Current Population Survey and the Survey of Income and Program Participation, etc). Federal and state financial staff examining indirect and direct cost accounting to create incentives for reduction in overhead so funds can be reinvested in community service delivery. Congressional Involvement: The Institute for Educational Leadership has set up an early December site visit to Oregon to provide senior staff in both the Congress and the Executive Branch with a hands-on view of the state and local effects of the laws they pass and administer. The site visit will focus on cross-cutting initiatives for children and families and explore how Oregon is using measurable outcomes (benchmarks) to reach the state's long- range human investment goals. The site visit will build on work already underway on the Oregon Option. i:\stlocal\oregon\dpc.024 Clinton Presidential Records Digital Records Marker This is not a presidential record. This is used as an administrative marker by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library Staff. This marker identifies the place of a tabbed divider. Given our digitization capabilities, we are sometimes unable to adequately scan such dividers. The title from the original document is indicated below. Benchmarks Divider Title: THREE INITIAL CLUSTERS OF HUMAN INVESTMENT BENCHMARKS The following benchmarks illustrate the kind of results that Oregon seeks to improve the lives of its people. Workgroups were organized around these three clusters as initial areas of focus. HISTORIC TARGET Stable Families 1980 1990 1991 1992 1993 1995 2000 2010 1. Pregnancy rate per 1,000 females ages 10- 24 19.7 19.3 17.9 9.8 8 8 17 2. Percentage of children living above 100% 88% 84% 84% 88% 92% 100% of the federal poverty level 3. Number of children abused or neglected 11.3 10.5 11.3 10.8 9.0 6.0 2.0 per 1,000 persons under 18 4. Spousal abuse: domestic violence calls per 46.1 45.3 45.7 56.9 35.0 30.0 20.0 1,000 households 5. Percentage of children who are homeless at 1.8% 2.0% 0.9% 0% 0% some time in the past year 6. Of children born outside of marriage, the 33% 31% 49% 50% 80% 90% percentage who have legal paternity established in a given year 7. Percentage of current court ordered child 44% 50% 54% 85% 95% 99% support paid to single parent families Performance Measures Percentage of AFDC clients entering employment Percentage of AFDC clients with child support established Percentage of AFDC recipients within the total population Average length of time a family is on welfare Percentage of AFDC households headed by a teen parent Basic skill levels of participants in job preparation activities HISTORIC TARGET Healthy Children 1980 1990 1991 1992 1993 1995 2000 2010 1. Percentage of healthy birthweight babies 95% 95% 95% 95% 96% 97% 98% 2. Pregnancy rate per 1,000 females ages 10- 24.0 19.7 19.3 17.9 9.8 8.0 8.0 17 a. African-Americans 54.4 8.0 b. American Indians 21.9 8.0 c. Asians 12.7 8.0 d. Hispanic 33.2 8.0 e. Whites 19.2 8.0 3. Number of identified child care slots 14 15 16 20 25 available for every 100 children under age 13 4. Number of children abused or neglected 10.9 11.5 11.6 11.5 9.0 6.0 2.0 per 1,000 persons under 18 5. Percentage of babies whose mothers 77% 76% 77% 79% 100% 100% 100% received adequate prenatal care (beginning in the first trimester) 6. Infant mortality rate per 1,000 12.1 8.3 7.2 7.1 7.5 6.0 4.0 a. African-American (3-year average) 20.4 19.2 11 8.0 4.0 b. American Indian (3-year average) 15.2 14.3 10 7.0 4.0 c. Asians (3-year average) 8.3 6.5 6 5.0 4.0 d. Hispanic (3-year average) 8.7 7.4 6 5.0 4.0 e. Whites 7.2 6.9 6 5.0 4.0 7. Percentage of two-year-olds who are 47% 50% 80% 100% 100% adequately unmunized 8. * Percentage of children entering kindergarten meeting specific developmental standards for their age a. Language and literacy development b. Physical well being *Data expected in October 1994. THE OREGON OPTION, PAGE 2 HISTORIC TARGET Well Trained Workforce 1980 1990 1991 1992 1993 1995 2000 2010 1. Student Skills: Percentage of eleventh grade students who achieve established skill levels a. Reading 83% 82% 83% 88% 99% b. Math 67% 70% 65% 78% 99% c. Writing--Ideas 83% 88% 88% 99% d. Writing-Organization 80% 84% 85% 99% e. Writing-Conventions 81% 86% 85% 99% 2. High school graduation rate 72% 76% 74% 83% 93% 95% 3. Percentage of high school students with 9% 8% 8% 18% 35% 55% significant involvement in professional- technical education and entrepreneurial programs 4. Percentage of high school students 3% 3% 3% 18% 35% 55% enrolled in structured work experience programs 5. Percentage of students free of involvement with alcohol in the previous month a. Eighth grade 74% 92% 99% b. Eleventh grade 63% 75% 90% 6. Percentage of students free of involvement with illicit drugs in the previous month a. Eighth grade 90% 95% 99% b. Eleventh grade 81% 85% 99% 7. Percentage of students free of involvement with tobacco in the previous month a. Eighth grade 85% 95% 99% b. Eleventh grade 81% 85% 99% 8. Juvenile arrests per 1,000 juvenile 32 38 39 42 44 35 20 10 Oregonians per year 9. Real per capita income as a percentage of 99% 92% 92% 93% 93% 95% 100% 100% U.S. real per capita income 10. Percentage of Oregonians with incomes 89% 88% 91% 100% 100% above 100% of the Federal poverty level 11. Percentage of adults with intermediate proficiency at a. Prose Literacy 41% 55% h. Document Literacy 36% 55% c. Quantitative Literacy 39% 55% 12. Percentage of Oregon adults who completed an associate degree in professional- technical education THE OREGON OPTION, PAGE 3 13. Percentage of displaced re-employed within 24 months and earning at least 90% of previous income a. All workers b. Lumber and wood products workers 36% 60% 70% 75% 14. Average rate of reincarceration of 41% 41% 35% 20% 15% paroled offenders within three years of initial release 15. Welfare to work (See Family Stability) f:\user\opb\ob95\oroption\cluster.thbl THE OREGON OPTION, PAGE 4 Clinton Presidential Records Digital Records Marker This is not a presidential record. This is used as an administrative marker by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library Staff. This marker identifies the place of a tabbed divider. Given our digitization capabilities, we are sometimes unable to adequately scan such dividers. The title from the original document is indicated below. Examples of Partner- Ship Strategies Divider Title: Family Stability Oregon's long term objective is to assure that all families are economically self-sufficient, socially functional and safe. Welfare to work is the premise behind their proposal. The state has chosen to concentrate its early efforts on one of the benchmarks associated with family stability -- increasing the number of children living above 100% of the Federal Poverty Level. They expect to make significant progress over the next year on an interim performance measure of increasing the percentage of AFDC clients entering employment. Examples of Partnership Strategies to Achieve Benchmarks As a result of the site visit to Oregon in September, the Oregon Department of Human Services and HHS are engaged in initial conversations concerning immediate opportunities to enhance the state's ability to use Federal funds more creatively to both move AFDC clients into employment and address the underlying causes of poverty and dependency. Simplification and streamlining within and among programs are the immediate instrumental goals. Taskgroups comprised of Federal, state, and local representatives have been indentified to work on such issues as: 1) establishing common eligibility across entitlement programs that serve the poor; and 2) simplification of administrative procedures and requirements. What's Being Requested of the Federal Partner Oregon is requesting that the Federal Government allow the state to retain its "share" of the nation's AFDC funds, approximately 1.3 percent, as it moves recipients to employment, and "reinvest" the funds in poverty prevention activities. This overarching concept of "reinvestment" underpins the state's welfare initial reform strategy and would ultimately extend beyond AFDC to Food Stamps, Child Care and JOBS. In addition, the state is asking that the Federal Government: O Permit a common eligibility definition across assistance programs, with particular focus on valuation of assets, income, and marital status; O Relax or simplify application, reporting, financial management and evaluation requirements to permit comprehensive service delivery. What's Already Been Done Oregon has begun to prepare a waiver request under Section 1115 of the Social Security Act focused predominantly on AFDC, to accomplish much of the flexibility and reinvestment needs described above. HHS is working with the state throughout the process to assure that Federal interests, including cost neutrality and the establishment of adequate evaluation measures, are included in the state's waiver request. OREGON: HEALTHY CHILDREN Oregon's vision, expressed through the Benchmarks, is of "a place where children begin their early lives in strong, stable, nurturing and capable families. Their parents have access to prenatal and pediatric health care, early childhood education and quality child care." HEALTHY CHILDREN: TIMEFRAME FOR RESULTS Children 8 year Ready to Learn HIV-infected Babies Reduced Infant Mortality Healthy Birthweight Babies Child Abuse & Neglect 4 - 6 year Teen Pregnancy Reduction 2 year Two-year-old Pre-natal Child Care Immunizations Care Access Access Framework: Oregon's strategies to improve the health of the state's children are comprised of four interrelated approaches: Promote responsible parenthood Guarantee quality child care choices Ensure good health and protection Mobilize communities to support young children and their families These approaches are also affected by benchmarks in other clusters such as family stability. Oregon's Strategies to achieve the Healthy Children Benchmarks: 1. Create a service delivery system for Oregon of home visits by public health nurses and other home visitors. 2. Expand the system of family service centers and school-based health centers. 3. Strengthen the child care system. 4. Expand WIC participation. 5. Promote responsible parenthood. 6. Promote well child care, including immunization. 7. Promote access to prenatal care. Federal role: Federal funding goes into Oregon for child health-related programs from a large number of sources, including: the Department of Agriculture (Women, Infants and Children nutrition and health education program, Extension Service), Department of Health and Human Services ( Maternal and Child Health, Title V, Immunization, Family Planning (Title X), Medicaid, Title XX, and the new Family Preservation and Support Act, HeadStart, and the Department of Transportation. Other departments and programs may also be relevant to accomplishing the benchmarks in this cluster. Certain federal agencies have made great strides in reducing unnecessary red tape and bureaucracy for their programs. Additional efforts to streamline funding, reduce reporting requirements and coordinate efforts to achieve results are being identified to help achieve the Healthy Child Benchmarks of the Oregon Option. Progress so far: A federal/state/local team has agreed upon an initial set of benchmarks for healthy children and to begin immediately with immunization and access to prenatal care. The Conference of Local Health Officials and the Maternity Care Access have endorsed the Healthy Children initiative under the Oregon Option and begun to identify state, local and federal barriers to accomplishing the benchmarks. A federal/state/local team met in early October to discuss barriers and define specific steps to facilitate accomplishing the immunization goal. The group developed a work plan which agreed on actions for those items within current current authorities and identified teams to look at barriers that required additional investigation and possible legislative action. The Department of Health and Human Services has provided Oregon with the assurances it was seeking related to Medicaid policies affecting immunizations. HHS also provided Oregon technical assistance with outreach for immunization and on data for child health in early October. The U.S. Department of Agriculture Extension Service has identified a number of specific steps that it can take to facilitate the accomplishmènt of the immunization goal. The National Service Corps has joined Oregon's Preschool Immunization Consortium and is seeking ways to support the Oregon Option. Oregon officials have identified a number of specific new actions that they will take to reduce state and local barriers and facilitate the accomplishment" of this benchmark. Highlights of the current status on immunization and prenatal care are described below. HEALTHY CHILDREN CHALLENGE: RAISE OREGON'S IMMUNIZATION RATE FOR TWO-YEAR-OLDS FROM 53 TO 90 PERCENT WITHIN TWO YEARS. WHO: A local-state-federal partnership led by the Oregon Preschool Immunization Consortium. Participants include chief executives of all the state's hospital systems, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Oregon Health Sciences University, the Oregon Health Division, country health departments, the Oregon Nurses Association, the Oregon Medical Association, Rotary Clubs, Oregon Public Broadcasting, other insurance companies, and dozens of other professional and voluntary organizations. Federal partners include the Departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture and the National Service Corporation. HOW: Fast-track new Oregon Preschool Immunization Consortium's marketing plan to reach: - parents of pre-school children - private and public providers of immunizations - corporate and grassroots organizations Speed action on each county's individual immunization plan targeting specific populations: - High risk children through Healthy Start and Babies First programs - WIC and AFDC families - Day care populations - Oregon Health Plan new enrollees WHAT: Statewide Strategy Illustrative Federal Support and Flexibility Needed Increase community - Have USDA Extension agents support county level awareness through immunization efforts. marketing. - Assure that donations for Medicaid administrative match are allowed from private health care industry. Accelerate outreach. - Earmark 10% Child Care Block Grant funds for immunization outreach. - Obtain VISTA leader to support outreach. - Train local health departments at Extension Service Leadership Training. Create Immunization - Station federal epidemiologist in Oregon to assist. Registry to monitor - Maximize use of social security number from birth. children from birth. Create a Universal - Consolidate vaccine funding to support statewide Vaccine Fund Vaccine Program. and Program. Areas to consider: Oregon General Funds, Medicaid, Vaccine for Children, 317 Funds. - Assign federal employee to assist in development of vaccine fund and distribution plan. - Seek exemption from ERISA to permit requiring insurers to cover immunization in Oregon. Streamline and simplify - Reduce number of applications, earmarked categories and program management. reporting requirements for immunization programs. - DRAFT - HEALTHY CHILDREN CHALLENGE: RAISE THE PERCENTAGE OF BABIES WHOSE MOTHERS RECEIVE EARLY PRENATAL CARE (BEGINNING IN THE FIRST TRIMESTER) FROM 79 PERCENT TO 95 PERCENT BY 1996. WHO: A local-state-federal partnership led by the Maternity Care Access Commission, local health departments and Commissions on Children and Families. Other major partners include the local branches of the American College of Nurse Midwives, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the state and federal Medicaid offices, Health Systems in Collaboration, Oregon Health Sciences University, the Oregon Primary Care Association, Children First for Oregon and the Oregon Medical Association. Federal partners include the Departments of Health and Human Services, Agriculture and Education. HOW: Begin with the results of a recently completed maternity survey to determine barriers to care. Use a recently acquired federal grant to develop plans in targeted high-risk communities. Examine insurance coverage policies for high-risk groups (teens, certain minorities, undocumented) with an eye toward changing obstructive policies. Expand the network of school-based clinics. WHAT: State Strategy Illustrative Federal Support and Flexibility Needed Under development Under development DATA CLUSTER Background: Oregon has proposed a fundamental change in the intergovernmental relationship based on a simple principle: increased flexibility in exchange for improved performance and specific results. The viability of this principle hinges on reliable and timely information about accomplishments. Oregon: The State Legislature established The Oregon Progress Board to track progress on the benchmarks. The Progress Board draws on a variety of federal, state and local sources of data to provide information about changes in the well-being of their population as a result of a variety of efforts. Oregon commissioned a biennial survey on the benchmarks and several other special-purpose surveys (for example, a literacy survey) to provide data for some benchmarks. As a result of their efforts, although gaps still exist, Oregon is a state already rich in data. Federal Role: The federal government provides substantial information for the Benchmarks, especially through the Census (in particular the decennial census), the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the National Center for Health Statistics. It is essential to the success of the Oregon Option that such information continue to be available. In addition, Oregon has requested federal assistance in filling data gaps, improving data quality, providing technical assistance, providing more data for counties and local jurisdictions, and identifying promising practices for accomplishing the benchmarks. Progress To Date: The National Performance Review held an August briefing for the federal statistical community on the Oregon Option and the Oregon Benchmarks. At the request of OMB. senior staff from Census and the Bureau of Labor Statistics participated in the September site visit and met with the Oregon Progress Board and other local data users. They identified data strategies, needs and areas of cooperation. For example, federal agencies agreed to review the benchmarks to determine if there are additional sources of information and to assess the adequacy of current statistics. A federal/Oregon data cluster formed out of this meeting. OMB's Statistical Policy Office is facilitating participation of federal statistical agencies in the Oregon Option. A draft "Plan of Action" has been developed to provide an umbrella for assistance to Oregon and that would also result in products useful to other states. The plan will be presented to the federal statistical community. Census has begun to provide substantial technical assistance to Oregon. For example, Census is helping Oregon with population estimates for counties and other approaches that will save the state time and expense. They are assisting with special data tabulations, such as 1990 census tabulations related to welfare reform, and statistical assistance to improve the quality of surveys sponsored by Oregon. The Bureau of Labor Statistics is exploring ways that it can assist Oregon, for example, by developing an index of workforce diversification. The Department of Health and Human Services sent a team to Oregon in October to identify ways to assist in the strengthening of child health and related data. Clinton Presidential Records Digital Records Marker This is not a presidential record. This is used as an administrative marker by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library Staff. This marker identifies the place of a tabbed divider. Given our digitization capabilities, we are sometimes unable to adequately scan such dividers. The title from the original document is indicated below. 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List of Federal Inter- Agency Action Team Divider Title: THE OREGON OPTION Federal Interagency Action Team National Performance Review *Beverly Godwin Pamela Johnson Labor *Lorraine Chang, ETA Domestic Policy Council Armando Quiroz, Seattle ETA *Kathi Way Tom Plewes, BLS Terry Finegan, ETA Office of Management & Budget *Jonathan Breul Education Woody Jackson *Judy Wurtzel Kathy Wallman Ken Tolo Joe Wholey Talmira Hill Steve Redburn others others USDA ONDCP *Alma Hobbs, Extension Service *John Gregrich Mike Fishman, FNS Mitch Geasler, OS HHS Wayne Fawbush, RDA *David Garrison, OS/IGA Bill Ludwig, FNS Astrid Merget, OS/ASPE Steve Henigson, ACF/Seattle Commerce Regional Office *Cynthia Taeuber, Census Susanne Stoiber, PHS Bill Butz, Census Ta Zitans, PHS Linda Trageser Howard Rolston, ACF Glenn Kamber, ASPE HUD Jerry Britten, ASPE undetermined Ed Martin, ASMB Justice *Shay Bilchik Reggie Robinson Michael Dallich Olga Trujillo, OGC others *key contact i:\stlocalloregon\team DOMESTIC POLICY COUNCIL MEETING MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1994 5:30-6:30 p.m. ROOSEVELT ROOM ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE DISCUSSION (2 MINUTES) WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION JOHN DEUTCH, DEPUTY SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (DoD) DANIEL S. GOLDIN, ADMINISTRATOR, NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA) IVAN SELIN, CHAIRMAN, NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (NRC) CAROL BROWNER - UPDATE (7-8 MINUTES) DISCUSSION (19 MINUTES) o HOW TO INCORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE INTO AGENCY MISSIONS. o THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND OTHER ISSUES SUCH AS AFFORDABLE HOUSING, HEALTH CARE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, WORKER SAFETY, SMALL AND MINORITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT. 0 HOW CAN WE IMPROVE INTERAGENCY COOPERATION BY CREATING OR EXPANDING PROJECTS THAT WILL HELP AFFECTED COMMUNITIES. 0 HOW CAN WE ENHANCE COMMUNITIES, INDUSTRY, STATE, LOCAL, AND TRIBAL GOVERNMENT PARTICPATION AS WE DEVELOP ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE STRATEGIES. SENT BY:Xcrox Telecopier 7020 : 5- 6-94 : 12:39 : The White House- 67431:# 2 May 5, 1994 MEMORANDUM FOR THE DOMESTIC POLICY COUNCIL FROM: Carol II. Rasco, Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy SUBJECT: Meeting Agenda for May 9, 1994 The Domestic Policy Council will meet for its bi-weekly meeting on Monday, May 9 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Roosevelt Room. Please remember that due to space limitations, this meeting is for principale only or one designee if you cannot be present yourself. If there is to be a designee, please have the clearance (456-2216). information shared with Rosalyn Miller in my office AGENDA Domestic Policy Council Monday, May 9, 1994 5:30-6:30 p.m. I. Legislative Updates: Budget Leon Panetta Crime Legislation Ron Klain Health Reform Lynn Margherio II. Summer of Safety/AmeriCorps Grent Awards/Applications Eli Segal - - The next meeting will be held on Monday, May 23, 5:30-6:30 P.M. Please remember to call Rosalyn Miller at 456-2216 by the close of business Wednesday, May 18 with suggested agenda items. Agenda DOMESTIC POLICY COUNCIL APRIL 25, 1994 5:30p-5:55p Ada Deer, Ass't Sec'y Discussion of the concepts and principles of tribal sovereignty government-to-government relationship the nature of the trust responsibility Ada Deer, Ass't Sec'y Discussion of the significance of *elements of the event * (1) Sight Blessing Principals enter (2) Presentation of Colors Faith Ressell * (3) Opening Invocation (stand) * (4) Honor Song (stand) (5) Introductions (6) Tribal Leadership Presentations on Issues of Concern Eight Presentations (7) Presidential Address Signing Presidential Directives * (8) Presentation of Gifts to President Clinton, the First Lady, Vice President Gore and Mrs. Gore (9) Retire the Colors (10) Closing Prayer (stand) (11) Closing Honor Song (stand) Donsia Strong Discussion of Presidential Directives AGENDA Domestic Policy Council Monday, February 7 5:30-6:30 p.m. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE TIME FOR THIS AND ALL MEETINGS HEREAFTER WILL BE 5:30-6:30 P.M. IN THE ROOSEVELT ROOM. School to Work Secretary Reich Secretary Riley Urban Strategy Secretary Cisneros (see attachment) National Service Eli Segal Intergovernmental Report Marcia Hale Updates: Drug Control Strategy Homelessness Coordinated Plan DUE TO THE HOLIDAY, WE WILL NOT MEET ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21. THE NEXT MEETING WILL BE HELD ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 5:30-6:30 P.M. AND WILL THEREAFTER CONTINUE WITH THE BI-WEEKLY SCHEDULE. Please remember to call Rosalyn Miller at 456-2216 by the close of business Wednesday, February 23 with suggested agenda items. CC: Mack McLarty Phil Lader Ricki Seidman Mark Gearan Christine Varney Katie McGinty DPC Staff DRAFT OUTLINE OF THE POLICY FRAMEWORK FOR THE PRESIDENT'S NATIONAL URBAN POLICY REPORT (REVISED 2/2/94) THE PRESIDENT'S COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT STRATEGY The Problem The changing structure of the U.S. economy is increasingly concentrating poverty and unemployment among racial minorities in the inner cities and a growing number of suburban communities. These changes are impeding our national economic growth through the loss of human resources and labor productivity. In addition, problems such as joblessness among African- American youth and men, rising teenage pregnancy and single- parent households, children in poverty and poor health, homelessness, welfare dependency, and crime are diminishing the quality of life throughout metropolitan areas. Many urban communities and low-income people must be brought back into the mainstream of American life with decent jobs, stable families, adequate health care, affordable housing, and accessible transportation. The Goals The primary goals of the President's Community Empowerment Strategy are to create economic opportunity and ensure that residents of distressed communities share in the benefits of economic growth. Our most urgent task is to restore to every American the conviction that if they work hard, they will be rewarded -- the absolute, unshakable belief that they can make their future better. We cannot do that without a community-based effort and without a partnership with employers all across the country. Three principles for reaching these goals are: 1. Every American should have real opportunities and choices for where they live and work. People should be able to choose, and be fully responsible for the choices they make. If they wish to live and work in the inner city, that should be their choice. But living amidst drug dealing, violence and deterioration is not a real choice -- no one should be forced to live in such conditions. On the other hand, if people want to live and/or work in other parts of the metropolitan area, but are prevented from doing so by discriminatory housing practices, unfair mortgage lending, job discrimination, and lack of affordable transportation, then they also have no real choice. To achieve real choices, we must work on parallel tracks - - revitalizing distressed communities, providing access to metropolitan job markets, and promoting residential 2 mobility and fair housing. To achieve real choices, individuals must take responsibility for their lives, their families, their workplaces and their communities. 2. Every community should encourage active participation in local decision-making and civic culture to increase economic opportunity and enhance quality of life. Communities should be able to choose their destiny and move through dynamic transitions to reach their goals. To successfully make these changes they must include all of the community's residents, organizations, and institutions, public and private, in local decision-making and community partnerships. The voices of the disadvantaged and disenfranchised should be part of this community collaboration. Promoting basic values of work, responsibility, family, and community is the basis for reviving and sustaining civic culture. We need to care for our neighbors and create an environment of mutual respect. Local government, private business, community organizations and residents in partnership with the Federal government and the States, must be part of this new social contract, working together to revitalize distressed neighborhoods. 3. Every American who needs help should be able to step up a ladder of opportunity and climb toward self- sufficiency. This means giving people a hand-up, not a hand- out. For example, it involves helping residents of distressed communities move from welfare dependency to gainful employment. It can also include helping low- income tenants move to homeownership, and helping homeless people move from the streets to permanent housing and jobs. This principle requires policies that are dynamic and provide movement upward to something better, rather than static services. It means diverse government agencies and functions coming together to help people climb from one step of the ladder up to the next, reinterpreting government's role as preparing people for the next stage. 3 Chapter I. The Economic Context The first chapter introduces the report and provides the macroeconomic context. A healthy national economy is essential for the success of the President's community empowerment strategy. This chapter examines national economic growth policies that benefit distressed communities, including: A. Reducing the Federal Budget Deficit Maintaining business confidence, keeping interest rates and inflation low, and promoting new private and public investment B. Increasing Economic Growth and Productivity Improving investment in human and physical capital in distressed communities. Investing in new technology, the National Information Infrastructure, and other essential capital improvements. Promoting housing production and homeownership to strengthen the economic recovery. Chapter II. Expanding Real Choices for Where People Live and Work To achieve real choices, we must work on parallel tracks -- revitalizing distressed communities, providing access to metropolitan job markets, and promoting residential mobility and fair housing. Individuals must take responsibility for their lives, their families, their workplaces and their communities. The second chapter explains policies and programs designed to increase real choices for where people live and work, including: A. Improving Education, Job Training, and Employment Opportunities Providing for reemployment initiatives to adapt the workforce to a changing economy, including Temporary NAFTA Assistance, a comprehensive dislocated workers program, One-Stop Shop for Employment Assistance, profiling for unemployed workers, income contingent education and training loans, and Excel Accounts. 4 B. Increasing Residential and Job Choice Expand metropolitan fair housing initiatives and residential mobility programs. Aggressively enforce laws and regulations for fair housing, fair lending and insurance, and equal employment opportunity. Increase nationally portable rental assistance linked to employment and housing search services and mobility counseling. C. Establishing Universal Health Care Coverage Ensuring basic medical services for every american supports individual income security and residential and job mobility D. Expanding Transportation Mobility Improve access to metropolitan employment and housing markets through innovative public and private transportation investment. Chapter III. Promoting Community Economic Development and Quality of Life. To strengthen economic opportunity and quality of life, communities should encourage active participation in local decisionmaking. Promoting values of work, responsibility, family, and community is the basis for reviving and sustaining civic culture. Local government, private business, community organizations and residents, in partnership with the Federal government and the States, must be part of a new social contract: everyone working together to revitalize distressed neighborhoods. This chapter covers a wide range of policies and programs designed to improve community life, including: A. Expanding Private and Public Investment in Cities and Distressed Communities to Create Jobs, Rebuild Infrastructure, and Support Community Development Creating Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities -- if we are to ensure the economic rebirth of distressed communities, we must create a full partnership between the private sector, government, and the communities themselves. 5 Providing access to capital, credit, and banking services through regulatory actions to ease the credit crunch, strengthening the Community Reinvestment Act, and supporting the growth of Community Development Financial Institutions. Supporting economic development projects with gap financing for essential retail outlets in distressed communities. Targeting small and minority business assistance with Small Business Administration One-Stop Capital Shops, Minority Entrepreneurship, and expanded Microenterprise Loans. Encouraging innovative investment partnerships with pension funds, financial institutions, State and local finance agencies, government-sponsored enterprises such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and other sources of investment and credit. B. Reducing Crime Put 100,000 police officers on the streets to work with communities that need them most Increase Federal, State, and local public and private support for Community Policing, Boot Camps, Safe Schools, weapons legislation, and grass roots anti-crime initiatives for public and government-assisted housing and distressed neighborhoods. The Safe Schools initiative will help provide a more secure environment for young people to learn and grow and communities to support education programs. C. Creating More Affordable Housing and Homeownership Provide investment incentives for affordable housing and homeownership, including Federal Low- Income Housing Tax Credits and State and Local Mortgage Revenue Bonds. Strengthen Federal Housing Administration Mortgage Insurance Programs and create no down payment financing for revitalizing urban neighborhoods with affordable homeownership. 6 Initiate risk-sharing credit partnerships with government-sponsored enterprises and State housing finance agencies. Improve public housing developments and turn around distressed housing and neighborhoods through the Urban Revitalization Demonstration. D. Improving Community Health Services Expanding the services provided by essential Community Providers under Title I (E) (3) of the Health Security Act. Providing funding for Academic Health Centers. Expanding health services for medically underserved populations by funding community and migrant health centers and initiatives for access to health care. E. Improving Education Tighter targeting of Chapter I funds will assure that schools in poor communities have the resources targeted to meet the Goals 2000 plan. F. Supporting Comprehensive Community Planning for Transportation, Land-Use, Environment, and Economic Development. Renew the national commitment to mass transit, innovative land-use planning, and rebuilding infrastructure to improve community accessibility and services. G. Expanding Opportunities for Community Involvement through National Service and Other Methods Strengthening community organizations through the National Community Development Initiative and the Community Viability Fund. Promoting community service through the National Service program and federal Community Services Grants. 7 Encouraging community participation in Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities. Chapter IV. Moving up Ladders of Opportunity and Self- Sufficiency. This chapter is about giving people a hand-up, not a hand-out. It focuses on dynamic policies that provide movement to something better, enabling people to make transitions in their lives, climbing from one step of the ladder to the next -- to better jobs, housing, health, and safe communities. The chapter discusses key policies and programs that support successful transitions, including: A. Reforming Welfare and Making Work Pay. Increasing the Earned Income Tax Credit to reduce economic dependency and expand self-sufficiency Transforming welfare from a dependency trap to an opportunity gateway by firmly linking income support to education, job training, and employment assistance. Supporting the move from welfare to work by providing child care and universal health coverage Reduce the need for welfare by promoting parental responsibility and preventing teenage pregnancy. Strengthen child support enforcement so that noncustodial parents pay more of the costs of raising their children. B. Increasing Self-Sufficiency and Career Ladder Opportunities Providing opportunities for at-risk youth and ex- offenders in low-income areas to obtain skills and enter the job market through programs such as Youth Fair Chance, Youthbuild, Job Corps, and Jobs for Residents. The School-To-Work transition program will develop a high quality system to prepare youth for lifelong learning and career advancement. Increasing availability of Family and Medical Leave, and Child and Elder Care services, to 8 support family life along with successful jobs and careers. Expanding the Head Start program will improve education opportunities for low-income children in poor communities. C. Expanding Homeownership Opportunities Provide homeownership vouchers to low-income families and expand homeownership counseling and the National Homeownership Trust. D. Reducing Homelessness through Continuum of Care Expand innovative and comprehensive local efforts using the Continuum of Care approach -- help homeless people get off the streets into decent emergency shelters, assist them in moving to transitional housing and services, and then to permanent housing and jobs. E. Improving Health Providing grants for substance abuse programs. Increasing childhood immunization to prevent disease and protect the health of low-income children. V. Reinventing Community Governance This chapter is about implementing the President's community empowerment strategy. It explores the role of government, business, and community institutions in forming innovative partnerships and building bridges for effective action. These new approaches involve reinventing service delivery for greater efficiency and flexibility, promoting performance-driven management, and reaching across all levels of government, including: A. The President's Community Enterprise Board Streamline existing programs to help each community realize its own strategic revitalization plan. Through regulatory and program flexibility and waivers, the Federal government will help communities become laboratories for change, encouraging comprehensive vision, innovative local and metropolitan partnerships, and community- 9 oriented private sector entrepreneurship and investment. B. Performance Agreements and Results-Oriented Government The President will sign Performance Agreements with cabinet secretaries and agency administrators to create results-oriented government, greater cooperation, higher performance, and more public accountability in management, program, and service delivery. C. Cross-cutting Initiatives and Interagency Cooperation Encourage the development of links between human development strategies in education, health, and job training, with physical development strategies in housing, transportation, and community development. D. Regulatory Waiver Authority and Local Flexibility Emphasize the need for bottom-up, collaborative strategies through regulatory waiver authority and local flexibility to solve problems. State and local regulations can be just as burdensome as federal ones. A real partnership and flexibility at all levels of government is needed to revitalize communities. E. Local Demonstration Projects and Innovative Community and Metropolitan Partnerships Empowering local initiative to experiment with new ideas and to link distressed communities to metropolitan regional development. F. The President's Fair Housing Council Bring together cabinet departments, law enforcement agencies, and financial regulators for the first time to focus on coordinated and comprehensive efforts to expand equal opportunity and residential choice, working in partnership with state and local government, private business, and nonprofit groups. Kathe THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON January 21, 1994 TO: Domestic Policy Council FROM: Carol H. CHR Rasco, Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy SUBJECT: Agenda for January 24, 1994 The Domestic Policy Council will meet for its bi-weekly meeting on Monday, January 24 from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. in the Roosevelt Room. Please remember that due to space limitations, this meeting is for principals only or one designee if you cannot be present yourself. If there is to be a designee, please have the clearance information shared with Rosalyn Miller in my office (456-2216). AGENDA Domestic Policy Council Monday, January 24, 1994 Health Care Reform Ira Magaziner Welfare Reform Secretary Shalala Mayors and Governors Meetings Marcia Hale Updates: Drug Stategy Homelessness Coordinated Plan The next meeting will be held on Monday, February 7. Please remember to call Rosalyn Miller by the close of business Wednesday, February 2 with suggested agenda items. CC: Mack McLarty Phil Lader Christine Varney Ricki Seidman Jack Gibbons Katie McGinty DPC Staff THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON January 7, 1994 TO: Domestic Policy Council FROM: Carol H. Rasco Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy SUBJ: Agenda for Monday, January 10 The Domestic Policy Council will meet for its first 1994 bi- weekly informal communication meeting on Monday, January 10 at 5:00 p.m. for one hour in the Roosevelt Room. Please remember this meeting is for principals only with a designee welcome if the principal cannot attend. If you have not already done so, please respond to Rosalyn Miller (456-2216) as to the person attending from your department. AGENDA I. Federal Plan to Break the Cycle of Homelessness Secretary Cisneros II. 1994 National Drug Control Strategy Director Brown III. CDC AIDS Prevention Program Secretary Shalala NOTICE: Next meeting, Monday, January 24, 5 to 6 p.m. (The night before THE speech!) in the Roosevelt Room Suggested agenda items due by noon Wednesday, January 19 to Rosalyn Miller, 456-2216 CC: Mack McLarty Phil Lader Christine Varney DPC Staff Kristine Gebbie Jack Gibbons Katie McGinty Jack Quinn DETERMINED TO BE AN ADMINISTRATIVE MARKING INITIALS: @ DATE: 01/25/11 CONFIDENTIAL DRAFT FEDERAL PLAN TO BREAK THE CYCLE OF HOMELESSNESS Foreword. Build on points from "putting people first" and other campaign statements May 19, 1993 Executive Order Development of a Federal plan--methods: outreach, interactive forums, mail solicitations. I Background and History. 1. Causes of homelessness O There is no one single cause of homelessness and many types of homeless persons who should not be pigeonholed into certain stereotyped classes. That only confuses a very complex issue. The rise of homelessness in the 1980s is very complex but may have two major causal streams: --The first stream was the increased crisis of poverty in the U.S. --The second stream is the growing number of persons in American society who are not receiving adequate treatment for drug addiction, alcoholism, and mental illness. o In any one city during a given period of time the residents of the shelters constitute a complex mix of the homeless coming from both groups. 2. Past efforts to deal with homelessness a. Local pioneering efforts largely through private nonprofit social service agencies and a few progressive local governments predated Federal or state involvement. b. State efforts minimal. C. Federal efforts late in coming, focusing initially on emergency care. 3. Current Federal policies and programs a. McKinney Act programs b. Non-Mckinney Act programs 4. Strengths and weaknesses of past efforts a. Valuable experience gained from the past decades of efforts to help the homeless. b. A separate system created to help the homeless outside of mainstream of American social service and housing system. C. Focus on short-term emergency needs not effective for homeless persons needing long-term assistance. d. Lack of balance between emergency, transitional and long- term facilities at the local level. e Federal program fragmentation. II THE FEDERAL PLAN TO BREAK THE CYCLE OF HOMELESSNESS Introduction on basic Federal philosophy and role in addressing needs of homeless in partnership with local governments and non-profit community. 1. Broad attack on basic poverty. o Little progress can be made on attacking homeless unless substantial progress is made in dealing with basic problems of poverty in families. o Therefore, efforts should continue and expand to reduce poverty: implement Earned Income Tax Credits, increase the minimum wage, continuing with welfare reform, expand jobs near poverty concentrations or improving accessibility of poor to jobs, improving school to work programs to prepare poor youth for post-industrial society, fight racism and reduce concentration of low and moderate income housing, improve effectiveness of manpower training and other programs to help poor achieve self-sufficiency, expand programs to deal with problems of poor single adults. Expand supply of affordable housing outside of poverty tracts, increase funding for housing rehabilitation and Section 8 to meet needs of millions who are poorly housed, undertake major effort to improve the nexus between public and assisted housing and social services by substantial outreach of HHS and DOL programs in public and assisted housing to help residents achieve self-sufficiency. 2. Improve efforts to deal with homeless with disabilities. Where appropriate, encourage involvement in Federal mainstream assistance programs for homeless and formerly homeless people. Condition mental health block grant on dealing with mentally ill in the street and developing adequate institutional discharge procedures so that new homeless persons are not continually created. Pass health care reform to help meet needs of homeless individuals suffering from mental illness, alcoholism, or substance abuse. 3. Improve coordination and improve homeless programs. Improve coordination of homeless job training and AHA! programs. * MODERNIZATION The Improve coordination of weatherization programs. Answer! If so outside, Improve coordination and streamline existing targeted Federal homeless assistance programs which fund emergency shelters and services. this wald toblem be 4. Improve homeless prevention activities. Promote coordination and cooperation among Federal agencies to ensure that their mainstream programs support State and LOTS OF local prevention efforts. WARM PRISON 5. Promote continuum of care beyond emergency services. Redirect Federal funding to require links between housing BELLSUILT will and support services for homeless. SOON! Encourage creative and cost-effective local approaches, including integrating emergency shelter with long-term housing assistance, education and employment opportunities through technical assistance and training. Federal agencies should encourage applicants to demonstrate a fully coordinated and comprehensive approach to addressing the identified needs of homeless people. Develop additional interagency collaborative efforts, including joint review of applications for competitive grant programs, memorandum of understanding, special technical assistance, etc. III CONCLUSIONS--STEPS TO IMPLEMENTATION SENT BY:Xcrox Telecopier 7020 ; 9- 7-93 : 15:20 : The White House- 202 456 7028:# 3 THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON AGENDA FOR DOMESTIC POLICY COUNCIL MEETING Wednesday, September 8 Roosevelt ROOM 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. I. Opening Remarks President Clinton 2:10 p.m. II. Program Updates A. Office of the National Drug Control Policy Lee Brown B. Office of the AIDS Policy Coordinator Kristine Gebbie 2:35 p.m. III. Health Care Reform Hillary Rodham Clinton Ira Magaziner 3:00 p.m. IV. Adjourn SENT BY:Xcrox Telecopier 7020 : 8- 7-93 : 15:18 : The White House- 202 456 7028:# 2 THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON September 7, 1993 MEMORANDUM FOR DOMESTIC POLICY COUNCIL FROM: Carol H. Rasco, Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy CSR SUBJECT: Meeting Agenda Attached is the agenda for the Domestic Policy Council meeting to be held September 8, 1993, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. in the Roosevelt Room. As stated in a previous memorandum, because of space limitations, this meeting is for principals only. If the principal is unable to attend, please call Rosalyn at 456-2216 with the name, date of birth, and social security number of the designes. SENT BY:Xcrox Telecopier 7020 : 8- 7-93 : 15:18 : The White House- 202 456 7028:# 2 THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON September 7, 1993 MEMORANDUM FOR DOMESTIC POLICY COUNCIL FROM: Carol H. Rasco, Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy CSR SUBJECT: Meeting Agenda Attached is the agenda for the Domestic Policy Council meeting to be held September 8, 1993, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. in the Roosevelt Room. As stated in a previous memorandum, because of space limitations, this meeting is for principals only. If the principal is unable to attend, please call Rosalyn at 456-2216 with the name, date of birth, and social security number of the designes. SENT BY:Xcrox Telecopier 7020 ; 8- 7-93 : 15:20 : The White House- 202 456 7028:# 3 THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON AGENDA FOR DOMESTIC POLICY COUNCIL MEETING Wednesday, September 8 Roosevelt ROOM 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. I. Opening Remarks President Clinton 2:10 p.m. II. Program Updates A. Office of the National Drug Control Policy Lee Brown B. Office of the AIDS Policy Coordinator Kristine Gebbie 2:35 p.m. III. Health Care Reform Hillary Rodham Clinton Ira Magaziner 3:00 p.m. IV. 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If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure. dissemination, copying or distribution, or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this communication is strictly prohibited. THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON June 4, 1993 MEMORANDUM FOR DOMESTIC POLICY COUNCIL FROM: Carol H. Rasco, W Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy SUBJECT: Agenda for Thursday, June 10 Meeting Attached is the final list of the Domestic Policy Council membership as well as a copy of the agenda approved by President Clinton for the meeting on Thursday, June 10 in the Roosevelt Room at 10 a.m. Due to space limitations, this meeting will be limited to Principals only with the Domestic Policy Council staff present as observers. Please do not hesitate to call me if you have questions about the agenda. I look forward to seeing you on Thursday. CC: The Chief of Staff Counselor to the President Senior Advisor to the President on Policy and Strategy The Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the Office on Environmental Policy Chief of Staff to the First Lady The Deputy Assistant to the President and Secretary to the Cabinet Domestic Policy Council Staff Magaziner Reed Way Cerda Heenan Margherio Sampson Schmidt Strong Walden Weinstein -2- AGENDA FOR DOMESTIC POLICY COUNCIL June 10, 1993 Roosevelt Room 10 - 11:30 a.m. 10:00 a.m. - 10: 10 a.m. I. Opening Remarks President Clinton 10:10 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. II. Legislative and Program Updates A. EPA Director Browner B. Transportation Secretary Pena C. Education Secretary Riley D. HHS Secretary Shalala 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. III. Community Empowerment and Welfare Reform Discussion Full Council 11:30 a.m. IV. Adjournment -3- Membership of the Domestic Policy Council: President Vice-President HHS Justice Labor Veterans Interior Education HUD Agriculture Transportation Commerce Energy EPA OMB CEA Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy Assistant to the President for Economic Policy Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of National Service Senior Advisor to the President for Policy Development Drug Director AIDS Policy Coordinator Such other officials of executive departments and agencies as the President may from time to time, designate. TALKING POINTS DOMESTIC POLICY COUNCIL MEETING ON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND EMPOWERMENT June 10, 1993 TALKING POINTS FOR POOL SPRAY * I'm here for a briefing from the Domestic Policy Council on what we're doing to empower individuals and communities to get ahead. * I asked for a progress report on: * my Empowerment Zone plan to create jobs in poor communities, which passed the House last month and is under consideration in the Senate; * our expanded Earned Income Tax Credit, to make sure that no one in America who works full-time with a family at home has to live in poverty, which is at the heart of my economic plan; * my pledge to put 100,000 new police on the streets, to make our neighborhoods safe again; * legislation we will soon propose to create a national network of community development banks; and * our efforts to work with Congress and the governors on a plan to end welfare as we know it. * Much of this agenda is part of my economic plan, which is all the more reason I hope the Senate will approve it quickly. We need my economic plan if we're going to begin to provide opportunity, inspire responsibility, and restore community in this country. SUMMARY OF CLINTON INITIATIVES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND EMPOWERMENT 1. Earned Income Tax Credit The economic plan would expand the Earned Income Tax Credit to lift more working families above the poverty threshold and to provide a greater work incentive to low-income workers. The proposal would ensure that if a family of four or fewer people had a full-time minimum wage worker, the family would be lifted to the poverty line so long as it also received food stamps (assuming the minimum wage would be indexed for inflation as President Clinton proposed during the campaign). And the proposal substantially expands the EITC adjustment for family size. The EITC proposal accomplishes other goals as well. It substantially simplifies the EITC so that families will find the credit easier to apply for and so that both tax filers and the IRS can handle the credit more readily without making mistakes. And, the proposal establishes a new component of a few hundred dollars a year for very poor workers without children. This new credit, limited to workers with incomes below $9,000, is designed to shield them from the effects of the energy tax. When fully in effect, the Clinton proposal would expand the EITC more than $7 billion a year. 2. Empowerment Zones The House approved $5.2 billion for tax incentives in 10 Empowerment Zones and 100 Enterprise Neighborhoods in urban and rural communities. The types of tax incentives range from a wage tax credit and a targeted jobs tax credit for the ten large zones to a tax- exempt bond facility for all 110 zones. $1 billion in funds would be made available for community policing and other programs for all 110 zones. An additional $4 billion in existing program funds would be made available for targeted programs in zones. Finally, and the legislation would create an Enterprise Board which would be authorized to waive provisions of Federal law or regulation adminstered by the Secretaries of HUD, Agriculture, HHS, Labor, or Education. The Senate Finance Committee will be reviewing the Empowerment Zone proposal as part of Budget Reconciliation. The spending and waiver portions of the bill are being held up until we can resolve some policy difference with the hill. We have been working closely with Senator Mitchell's staff and the Senate Banking Committee on developing an acceptable proposal as well as a strategy for passage of the legislation. Unfortunately, the House Appropriations Committee did not reserve funding for the Empowerment Zone proposal for FY94. We are working to rectify this in the Senate. 3. Community Policing The FY93 Supplemental Appropriations bill includes $200 million for community policing. That bill has passed the full House and was approved in committee in the Senate. The Administration budget included $250 million in both FY93 and FY94 for community policing. The House Appropriations subcommittee refused to appropriate the FY94 money because Congress has not yet passed the authorization language the Administration submitted as part of our Empowerment Zone proposal. Sen. Biden and Rep. Brooks are near agreement on a crime bill that will include an Administration-backed community policing title, which would provide $ over XX years to put $ new police on the street. HUD, Education, National Service, and a DoD/DoL Troops-to-Cops initiative will provide the balance of police officers to meet the 100,000 cops pledge. 4. Community Development Banks and CRA Reform The Administration will submit legislation, perhaps as soon as next week, to create the Community Banking and Credit Fund (the "Fund"), whose purpose is to establish a network of Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI). This legislation would authorize over the next four years $382 million for capital investments or technical assistance in CDFIs. A whole range of CDFIs could qualify for assistance, including community development banks, community development credit unions, microenterprise loan funds, revolving loan funds, and community development corporations. The final draft of this legislation will be ready at the end of this week. In the House, the Appropriations Committee did not set aside the $60 million for FY94, so we will have to get our funding for the program in the Senate, and work to ensure it makes it through conference. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the other banking regulators will also be announcing shortly, at the President's request, that they will begin a process of reform of the Community Reinvenstment Act (CRA). The reform will include moving CRA from paperwork to performance by establishing a more quantifiable CRA standard. 5. Welfare Reform On Friday, June 11, the Administration will put out a press release with the names of the interagency working group on welfare reform. Most members of the Domestic Policy Council have representatives on the working group. The goal is to produce a plan late this year. Meanwhile, state and local officials have formed an advisory group that should submit its recommendations to us by late August. File: DPC THE WHITE HOUSE CC: Prog. Staff - FYI WASHINGTON May 20, 1993 Magaziner g Reed Way Cerda MEMORANDUM FOR DOMESTIC POLICY COUNCIL Heenan FROM: Carol H. Rasco, Assistant to the President for Margherio Sampson Domestic Policy Schmidt SUBJECT: Council Meeting Strong Walden Weinstein This memo shall serve as notification of a meeting of the Domestic Policy Council on Wednesday, June 9, 1993 at 10:00 a.m. in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. I have attached for you a listing of the current membership of the Domestic Policy Council. I have attempted in the opening months of this administration to schedule a personal appointment with most of you in your office and will continue in that effort. I hope in the meantime that each of you will always feel free to contact me on policy issues you feel need to be considered and/or brought to the attention of the White House. In establishing the agenda for the June 9 meeting, I am requesting that you share with me any items you would like to have considered for the agenda. Please feel free to call me at 456-2216; my assistant Rosalyn Kelly will be glad to facilitate our conversation if I am not there when you call. You should also feel free to mail/messenger/fax me a note (fax: 456-2878). I will distribute an agenda for the meeting to each of you by the close of business Friday, June 4, 1993. It would be helpful to have confirmation of your attendance by that time on Friday, June 4. I look forward to seeing each of you on June 9. Thank you. Currently proposed membership of the Domestic Policy Council: President Vice-President HHS Justice Labor Veterans Interior Education HUD Agriculture Transportation Commerce Energy EPA OMB CEA Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy Assistant to the President for Economic Policy Assistant to the President and Director of the Office National Service Drug Director AIDS Policy Coordinator Such other officials of executive departments and agencies as the President may from time to time, designate.

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President's Executive Order\non Environmental Justice\nPlease feel free to call my assistant, Rosalyn Miller, at 456-\n2216 with any questions regarding this agenda or attached\nmaterials.\nAttachments\nCC w/o attachments: Leon Panetta\nErskine Bowles\nHarold Ickes\nBilly Webster\nDee Dee Myers\nMark Gearan\nKatie McGinty\nDPC Program Staff\nUNITED\nSTATES\nAGENCY\nUNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY\nWASHINGTON, D.C. 20480\nTHE ADMINISTRATOR\nMEMORANDUM\nSUBJECT:\nOctober 24, 1994 DPC Meeting\nTOPIC: Environmental Justice\nTO:\nAddressees\nA key agenda item at the October 24, 1994 Domestic Policy Council meeting is a\ndiscussion of Executive Order 12898, \"Federal Actions To Address Environmental Justice in\nMinority Populations and Low-Income Populations\". I will update the Council on the\nimplementation of the Executive Order and its importance to this Administration.\nIn preparation for this meeting, please give some thought to the following questions in\norder to have an interactive discussion on this important social, economic, and environmental\nissue:\nHow can your Agency incorporate environmental justice into its\nmission?\nHow do you see environmental justice issues cross-walking with\nother issues such as affordable housing, health care, economic\nredevelopment, worker safety, small and minority business development?\nHow can we improve interagency cooperation by creating or\nexpanding projects that will help affected communities?\nHow can we get early participation by communities, industry, state, local and tribal\ngovernments as the federal government develops its environmental justice\nstrategies?\nWe look forward to seeing you on October 24. If you have any questions or need\nadditional information, please do not hesitate to contact Kathy Aterno at EPA at (202) 260-2600.\nCarol M. Browner\nPrinted on Recycled Paper\nDOMESTIC POLICY COUNCIL BRIEFING\nIMPLEMENTATION OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 12898\nFederal Actions To Address Environmental Justice in Minority\nPopulations and Low-Income Populations\nOCTOBER 24, 1994\nTHE EXECUTIVE ORDER\nIssued and became effective February 11, 1994. It applies to sixteen federal\nagencies and those designated by the President that conduct activities that\nsubstantially affect human health or the environment.\nFederal agencies shall make achieving environmental justice part of their\nmission by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, disproportionately high and\nand adverse human health or environmental effects of their programs, policies,\nand activities on minority populations and low-income populations.\nEach agency must develop an agency-wide environmental justice strategy.\nThe first draft of this strategy is due December 11, 1994; final strategies\nare due February 11, 1995.\nAGENCY PARTICIPATION ON THE INTERAGENCY WORKING GROUP\nON ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE\nThe Working Group is responsible for ensuring that the federal government carries\nout the mandates outlined in Executive Order 12898. The Working Group's\nresponsibilities include:\nProviding guidance to Federal agencies on criteria for identifying\ndisproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects\non minority populations and low income populations;\nProviding guidance and serving as a clearinghouse for each Federal agency\nas it develops its environmental justice strategy in order to ensure that the\nadministration, interpretation and enforcement of programs, activities and\npolicies are undertaken in a consistent manner.\nCoordinating research;\nCoordinating data collection;\n1\nExamining existing data and studies on environmental justice;\nDeveloping interagency model projects;\nHolding public meetings for the purpose of fact-finding, receiving public\ncomments, conducting inquiries concerning environmental justice.\nThe Working Group created a Subcommittee on Policy and Coordination and\neight active Task Forces to assist in carrying out the interagency coordination activities. The task\nforces created and federal agency leads are: Implementation (CEQ and EPA), Interagency\nProjects (HUD and DOT); Definitions and Standards (EPA and DOJ); Enforcement and\nCompliance (DOJ and DOT); Research and Health (HHS and DOC); Data (DOC and HHS);\nNative Americans (DOI and USDA); and Outreach (DOD and DOE).\nSIX MONTH ACTION PLAN\nACTIVITY\nTIMEFRAME\nLEAD\nPre-meetings in Regions\nOctober 15-December 1\nEPA/DOE/DOD\non public meetings\nConference calls begin\nearly November\nbetween Task Forces and\nstakeholders\nCabinet Secretaries begin\nNovember - April\nCabinet\npublic speeches/meetings\non Environmental Justice\nPublic Meetings\nearly December - early\nDOE/EPA\nJanuary\nCalls to all Agencies\nNovember 1-11\nEPA\nchecking on status of Draft\nEnvironmental Justice\nstrategies\nInteragency Working\nEarly December\nEPA\nGroup meeting - Principals\n2\nDEADLINE: DRAFT\nDECEMBER 11\nCabinet\nSTRATEGIES\nReview of draft strategies\nDecember 12-January 3\nEPA/OEP/DPC\nComments back to\nJanuary 4\nInteragency Working\nAgencies\nGroup to Cabinet\nINTERAGENCY\nEARLY JANUARY\nCabinet\nWORKING GROUP\nMEETING -\nPRINCIPALS\nPublic Meetings\nJanuary/February\nInteragency Working\nLocations to be determined\nGroup\nDEADLINE: FINAL\nFEBRUARY 11\nCabinet\nSTRATEGIES\nReview of final strategies\nFebruary 11-March 31\nEPA\nand produce report to\nWhite House\nReport by DPC/OEP to\nApril 11\nOEP/DPC\nPresident\n3\nThe Oregon Option\nDomestic Policy Council Meeting\nOctober 24, 1994\nTHE OREGON OPTION\nDOMESTIC POLICY COUNCIL MEETING\nOCTOBER 24, 1994\nBACKGROUND\nOREGON BENCHMARKS\nOREGON OPTION\nSTATUS REPORT\nBENCHMARKS, by Cluster\nEXAMPLES OF PARTNERSHIP STRATEGIES\nSTABLE FAMILIES\nHEALTHY CHILDREN\nDATA ANALYSIS\nLIST OF FEDERAL INTERAGENCY ACTION TEAM\nClinton Presidential Records\nDigital Records Marker\nThis is not a presidential record. This is used as an administrative\nmarker by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library Staff.\nThis marker identifies the place of a tabbed divider. Given our\ndigitization capabilities, we are sometimes unable to adequately\nscan such dividers. The title from the original document is\nindicated below.\nBackground\nDivider Title:\nOREGON BENCHMARKS\nWhat Are They?\nNational Leader: Oregon is recognized nationally as the state furthest along in using\noutcomes to establish a long-range vision, set public priorities, allocate resources, design\nservices, and measure results.\nServe as Report Card: Oregon Benchmarks serve as critical indicators about the economy,\nthe quality of life, and the citizens of Oregon. The Benchmarks track where the state (or\ncounty) stands and how it measures up to its target goals over a specified number of years\n(e.g. 1995, 2000, 2010). Benchmarks oblige Oregon and its localities to measure what they\ndo by hard numbers, by agreed-upon standards.\nMeasure Outcomes, Not Inputs. Benchmarks measure results, not effort. Some examples\nfrom Oregon:\nWhether air and water are getting cleaner, not whether environmental regulations are\nin place.\nTen pregnancy (rate per 1,000 females aged 10-17 for each of the target years), not\nnumber of clients served.\nCrime rates, not prison beds (e.g., measures social harmony by hate crimes per\n100,000 Oregonians per year).\nUrban mobility by the percentage of Oregonians who commute to and from work by\nsome means other than a single occupancy vehicle.\nLiteracy and other learning standards, not school and teacher expenditures.\nCitizen and Legislative Input: Goals are developed through broad popular participation\n(e.g., electronic voting at community meetings), then ratified by action of the legislature\nand governor.\n272 Total Benchmarks:\n--\nUrgent Benchmarks - addressed in the next few years (e.g., teen\npregnancy); will impact many other benchmarks one or two decades out.\n--\nCore Benchmarks - are longer-term measures of Oregon's vitality and health\n(e.g., the base of the state's economy).\nOREGON BENCHMARKS\nHistory\nStrategic Planning Process, 1989. Oregon Benchmarks began in 1988 with \"Oregon\nShines,\" a strategic planning exercise started by then-governor Neil Goldschmidt. \"Oregon\nShines\" is a 20-year strategic vision focused on three main strategies: (1) creating a\ndiversified, high-wage economy; (2) protecting and enhancing Oregon's quality of life; and\n(3) investing in the capability of Oregonians.\nStrategic Plan Translated into Measurable Goals: The Oregon Legislature created the\nProgress Board, directing it to translate the strategies in Oregon Shines into measurable\ngoals for Oregon and make sure the process stays alive and on target. The board is headed\nby the governor and designed to be bipartisan. 1989.\nCitizen Input: Hundreds of Oregonians -- from business, labor, education, environmental\ngroups, state and local government, the health care system and grass-roots organizations --\ndeveloped the benchmarks for the State. 1990 and continuous.\nLegislature Adopts Benchmarks: The Legislature unanimously enacted Oregon\nBenchmarks into law, after review by 18 state legislative committees. 1991.\nPublic Report Card: Every two years, the Progress Board has to update the benchmarks\nand report publicly on progress toward each benchmark goal. 1991 and on-going.\nUse of Benchmarks to Govern: In 1992, Governor Roberts directed agencies to give\npriority to critical near-term benchmarks in the budget process, and directed all agencies to\ndevelop performance measures consistent with benchmarks. In 1993, Roberts, faced with a\n17 percent budget shortfall because of a voter initiative, cut all state agencies' budgets even\ndeeper -- 20 percent. Then she offered a 3 percent rebate to agencies able to shape their\nprograms to achieve benchmark goals. The Legislature ratified almost all of Roberts'\nbenchmark-targeted budget measures. Planning, budgeting and compensation systems are\nbeing directed towards the benchmarking goals. The three gubernatorial candidates have all\nendorsed use of Oregon benchmarks.\nBenchmarks and Communities: State and local government agencies, nonprofits,\nbusiness interests, and citizen groups are increasingly tying their efforts to Oregon\nBenchmarks. The Progress Board assists local government and other institutions in adopting\ntheir own benchmarks and creating programs that support the achievement of Oregon\nBenchmarks. For example, Multnomah County and Portland have inaugurated a joint\nbenchmarking process that incorporates the state benchmarks as well as additional\nbenchmarks of most interest to local citizens. Rural Baker and Deschutes, and other,\ncounties are also pioneering local benchmarking efforts.\nTHE OREGON OPTION\nAn Intergovernmental Partnership for Results\nSummary of Proposal\nProposal: In July 1994, Oregon's governor and county and city government officials\nproposed a special partnership and long-range project with the federal government to test\nfundamental redesign of the intergovernmental service delivery to achieve results.\nPurpose: to encourage cooperation among federal, state and local entities to redesign and\ntest an outcomes-based approach to intergovernmental service delivery.\nWhy Oregon? Using its pioneering efforts in benchmarking as a base, Oregon is uniquely\nsuited for an experimental demonstration to develop an outcome-based approach to\nintergovernmental services. The State and local governments have several years experience\nusing an outcomes model for establishing long-range vision, setting public priorities,\nallocating resources, designing services, and measuring results. The Oregon Legislature has\nadopted the \"Oregon Benchmarks.\" Nonprofit organizations, businesses, and civic groups in\nOregon are aligned to a benchmark process with State, county and local jurisdictions.\nDemonstration: Can serve as a platform to demonstrate principles and practices which\nmay lead to national improvements in the intergovernmental service delivery system.\nPrinciples to Guide Partnership. Oregon's proposal is based on principles advanced by\nthe National Performance Review:\nFocuses on outcomes as the criteria by which to measure success\nIntergovernmental and interagency -- brings together the community, local, state and\nfederal levels to agree on desired results and work together to achieve them (i.e.,\nshared accountability)\nOriented to customer needs and satisfaction, especially through integration of services\nBiased toward prevention rather than remediation of problems\nSystemic, sustainable change at all levels of the service delivery system to reduce red\ntape and micro-management\nDelegation of responsibilities for service design and delivery to front-line, local-level\nproviders\nNOT about more money, but about re-directing funds to better achieve agreed-upon\nresults.\nInitial Focus of demonstration is on Oregon's human investment benchmarks:\nHealthy children\nStable families\nA developed (highly educated and prepared) workforce\nClinton Presidential Records\nDigital Records Marker\nThis is not a presidential record. This is used as an administrative\nmarker by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library Staff.\nThis marker identifies the place of a tabbed divider. Given our\ndigitization capabilities, we are sometimes unable to adequately\nscan such dividers. The title from the original document is\nindicated below.\nStatus Report\nDivider Title:\nClinton Presidential Records\nDigital Records Marker\nThis is not a presidential record. This is used as an administrative\nmarker by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library Staff.\nThis marker identifies the place of a tabbed divider. Given our\ndigitization capabilities, we are sometimes unable to adequately\nscan such dividers. The title from the original document is\nindicated below.\nStatus Report\nDivider Title:\nTHE OREGON OPTION\nProject Status Report\n10-24-94\nStart-Up: Presentation on Oregon Option to large federal interagency audience by Oregon\nGovernor Barbara Roberts, Multnomeh County Chair Bev Stein, and Portland Mayor Vera\nKatz. July 25, 1994.\nCongressional Consultation: Governor Roberts and other Oregon representatives briefed\nOregon delegation. July 26, 1994.\nFederal Interagency Action Team organized under the guidance of the National\nPerformance Review to partner with Oregon to further develop the Oregon Option.\nRepresentatives from Domestic Policy Council, Office of Management and Budget,\nand seven agencies (Health and Human Services, Labor, Education, Justice,\nCommerce, Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development).\nMeets weekly, with conference call participation by federal staff in Seattle and\nOregon, and many Oregon representatives.\nInternal Federal Agency Work Teams being formed to involve array of policy, program,\nfield, data, financial, grants administration, evaluation, auditing, and legal expertise, insight,\nand advice within each agency. Seven agencies at different levels on this.\nWorking Visit to Oregon for partners to further develop the Oregon Option. September\n18-21, 1994.\nAttended by over 40 federal staff from Washington and regional/state offices; and\nover 60 Oregon state, local and community representatives.\nVisited local service sites, discussed principles of partnership and Oregon Option,\nfurther developed memorandum of understanding, further defined benchmark and\nworkgroup clusters, discussed benchmarks for initial focus, and began mapping\nspecific strategies and changes needed to achieve benchmarks.\nIntergovernmental/Interagency Sub-Teams have formed around specific benchmarks and\ncross-cutting issues to further develop strategies and changes needed to achieve specific\nbenchmarks:\nHealthy children cluster\nStable families cluster\nDeveloped workforce cluster\nData Analysis workgroup\nFinancial/grants administration workgroup\nMemorandum of understanding workgroup\nInternal Oregon Teams: Oregon developing process to involve additional, broad\nrepresentatives from state, local, private, and community based organization in development\nof the Oregon Option. Using the National Performance Review Model of providing space\nwhere staff comes together in teams, temporarily from their home organizations, to\naccomplish different pieces of the Oregon Option.\nFoundation Support:\nFord Foundation announced Oregon Benchmarks as one of its ten coveted State and\nLocal Innovation Award winners. September 29, 1994.\nAnnie Casey Foundation asked Oregon and the Alliance for Redesigning Government\nto apply for funds for facilitation and capacity building to support the Oregon Option.\nSeptember 30, 1994.\nStrategy Development to Achieve Outcomes: Sub-teams in various stages of developing\nstrategies and identifying changes needed. Where authority to make changes already exists,\nwe are NOT ASKING PERMISSION but just moving ahead. Where permission is needed,\nmore details will be forthcoming. Some examples:\nTwo teams likely to have very specific proposals in near future that will demonstrate\ntangible achievement on benchmarks.\n-- Healthy children cluster, with particular focus on increasing immunization rate\nof two year olds and prenatal care in the first trimester of pregnancy\n-- Stable families cluster, with particular focus on increasing number of welfare\nrecipients placed in jobs\nInteragency data analysis team already forging ahead to provide technical assistance\nto Oregon to fill data needs (e.g., modeling race data from the 1992 Oregon Survey\nback to the 1990 survey in which such data were not collected; providing information\non additional data sources where Oregon currently has data gaps; exploring Oregon's\nrequest to pay for additional sample size in Oregon in ongoing national surveys such\nis\nas Current Population Survey and the Survey of Income and Program Participation,\netc).\nFederal and state financial staff examining indirect and direct cost accounting to\ncreate incentives for reduction in overhead so funds can be reinvested in community\nservice delivery.\nCongressional Involvement: The Institute for Educational Leadership has set up an early\nDecember site visit to Oregon to provide senior staff in both the Congress and the Executive\nBranch with a hands-on view of the state and local effects of the laws they pass and\nadminister. The site visit will focus on cross-cutting initiatives for children and families and\nexplore how Oregon is using measurable outcomes (benchmarks) to reach the state's long-\nrange human investment goals. The site visit will build on work already underway on the\nOregon Option.\ni:\\stlocal\\oregon\\dpc.024\nClinton Presidential Records\nDigital Records Marker\nThis is not a presidential record. This is used as an administrative\nmarker by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library Staff.\nThis marker identifies the place of a tabbed divider. Given our\ndigitization capabilities, we are sometimes unable to adequately\nscan such dividers. The title from the original document is\nindicated below.\nBenchmarks\nDivider Title:\nTHREE INITIAL CLUSTERS OF HUMAN INVESTMENT BENCHMARKS\nThe following benchmarks illustrate the kind of results that Oregon seeks to improve\nthe lives of its people. Workgroups were organized around these three clusters as\ninitial areas of focus.\nHISTORIC\nTARGET\nStable Families\n1980\n1990\n1991\n1992\n1993\n1995\n2000\n2010\n1. Pregnancy rate per 1,000 females ages 10-\n24\n19.7\n19.3\n17.9\n9.8\n8\n8\n17\n2. Percentage of children living above 100%\n88%\n84%\n84%\n88%\n92%\n100%\nof the federal poverty level\n3. Number of children abused or neglected\n11.3\n10.5\n11.3\n10.8\n9.0\n6.0\n2.0\nper 1,000 persons under 18\n4. Spousal abuse: domestic violence calls per\n46.1\n45.3\n45.7\n56.9\n35.0\n30.0\n20.0\n1,000 households\n5. Percentage of children who are homeless at\n1.8%\n2.0%\n0.9%\n0%\n0%\nsome time in the past year\n6. Of children born outside of marriage, the\n33%\n31%\n49%\n50%\n80%\n90%\npercentage who have legal paternity\nestablished in a given year\n7. Percentage of current court ordered child\n44%\n50%\n54%\n85%\n95%\n99%\nsupport paid to single parent families\nPerformance Measures\nPercentage of AFDC clients entering employment\nPercentage of AFDC clients with child support established\nPercentage of AFDC recipients within the total population\nAverage length of time a family is on welfare\nPercentage of AFDC households headed by a teen parent\nBasic skill levels of participants in job preparation activities\nHISTORIC\nTARGET\nHealthy Children\n1980\n1990\n1991\n1992\n1993\n1995\n2000\n2010\n1. Percentage of healthy birthweight babies\n95%\n95%\n95%\n95%\n96%\n97%\n98%\n2. Pregnancy rate per 1,000 females ages 10-\n24.0\n19.7\n19.3\n17.9\n9.8\n8.0\n8.0\n17\na. African-Americans\n54.4\n8.0\nb. American Indians\n21.9\n8.0\nc. Asians\n12.7\n8.0\nd. Hispanic\n33.2\n8.0\ne. Whites\n19.2\n8.0\n3. Number of identified child care slots\n14\n15\n16\n20\n25\navailable for every 100 children under age 13\n4. Number of children abused or neglected\n10.9\n11.5\n11.6\n11.5\n9.0\n6.0\n2.0\nper 1,000 persons under 18\n5. Percentage of babies whose mothers\n77%\n76%\n77%\n79%\n100%\n100%\n100%\nreceived adequate prenatal care (beginning in\nthe first trimester)\n6. Infant mortality rate per 1,000\n12.1\n8.3\n7.2\n7.1\n7.5\n6.0\n4.0\na. African-American (3-year average)\n20.4\n19.2\n11\n8.0\n4.0\nb. American Indian (3-year average)\n15.2\n14.3\n10\n7.0\n4.0\nc. Asians (3-year average)\n8.3\n6.5\n6\n5.0\n4.0\nd. Hispanic (3-year average)\n8.7\n7.4\n6\n5.0\n4.0\ne. Whites\n7.2\n6.9\n6\n5.0\n4.0\n7. Percentage of two-year-olds who are\n47%\n50%\n80%\n100%\n100%\nadequately unmunized\n8. * Percentage of children entering\nkindergarten meeting specific developmental\nstandards for their age\na. Language and literacy development\nb. Physical well being\n*Data expected in October 1994.\nTHE OREGON OPTION, PAGE 2\nHISTORIC\nTARGET\nWell Trained Workforce\n1980\n1990\n1991\n1992\n1993\n1995\n2000\n2010\n1. Student Skills: Percentage of eleventh\ngrade students who achieve established skill\nlevels\na. Reading\n83%\n82%\n83%\n88%\n99%\nb. Math\n67%\n70%\n65%\n78%\n99%\nc. Writing--Ideas\n83%\n88%\n88%\n99%\nd. Writing-Organization\n80%\n84%\n85%\n99%\ne. Writing-Conventions\n81%\n86%\n85%\n99%\n2. High school graduation rate\n72%\n76%\n74%\n83%\n93%\n95%\n3. Percentage of high school students with\n9%\n8%\n8%\n18%\n35%\n55%\nsignificant involvement in professional-\ntechnical education and entrepreneurial\nprograms\n4. Percentage of high school students\n3%\n3%\n3%\n18%\n35%\n55%\nenrolled in structured work experience\nprograms\n5. Percentage of students free of involvement\nwith alcohol in the previous month\na. Eighth grade\n74%\n92%\n99%\nb. Eleventh grade\n63%\n75%\n90%\n6. Percentage of students free of involvement\nwith illicit drugs in the previous month\na. Eighth grade\n90%\n95%\n99%\nb. Eleventh grade\n81%\n85%\n99%\n7. Percentage of students free of involvement\nwith tobacco in the previous month\na. Eighth grade\n85%\n95%\n99%\nb. Eleventh grade\n81%\n85%\n99%\n8. Juvenile arrests per 1,000 juvenile\n32\n38\n39\n42\n44\n35\n20\n10\nOregonians per year\n9. Real per capita income as a percentage of\n99%\n92%\n92%\n93%\n93%\n95%\n100%\n100%\nU.S. real per capita income\n10. Percentage of Oregonians with incomes\n89%\n88%\n91%\n100%\n100%\nabove 100% of the Federal poverty level\n11. Percentage of adults with intermediate\nproficiency at\na. Prose Literacy\n41%\n55%\nh. Document Literacy\n36%\n55%\nc. Quantitative Literacy\n39%\n55%\n12. Percentage of Oregon adults who\ncompleted an associate degree in professional-\ntechnical education\nTHE OREGON OPTION, PAGE 3\n13. Percentage of displaced re-employed\nwithin 24 months and earning at least 90% of\nprevious income\na. All workers\nb. Lumber and wood products workers\n36%\n60%\n70%\n75%\n14. Average rate of reincarceration of\n41%\n41%\n35%\n20%\n15%\nparoled offenders within three years of initial\nrelease\n15. Welfare to work (See Family Stability)\nf:\\user\\opb\\ob95\\oroption\\cluster.thbl\nTHE OREGON OPTION, PAGE 4\nClinton Presidential Records\nDigital Records Marker\nThis is not a presidential record. This is used as an administrative\nmarker by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library Staff.\nThis marker identifies the place of a tabbed divider. Given our\ndigitization capabilities, we are sometimes unable to adequately\nscan such dividers. The title from the original document is\nindicated below.\nExamples of Partner-\nShip Strategies\nDivider Title:\nFamily Stability\nOregon's long term objective is to assure that all families are\neconomically self-sufficient, socially functional and safe.\nWelfare to work is the premise behind their proposal.\nThe state has chosen to concentrate its early efforts on one of\nthe benchmarks associated with family stability -- increasing the\nnumber of children living above 100% of the Federal Poverty\nLevel. They expect to make significant progress over the next\nyear on an interim performance measure of increasing the\npercentage of AFDC clients entering employment.\nExamples of Partnership Strategies to Achieve Benchmarks\nAs a result of the site visit to Oregon in September, the Oregon\nDepartment of Human Services and HHS are engaged in initial\nconversations concerning immediate opportunities to enhance the\nstate's ability to use Federal funds more creatively to both move\nAFDC clients into employment and address the underlying causes of\npoverty and dependency. Simplification and streamlining within\nand among programs are the immediate instrumental goals.\nTaskgroups comprised of Federal, state, and local representatives\nhave been indentified to work on such issues as: 1) establishing\ncommon eligibility across entitlement programs that serve the\npoor; and 2) simplification of administrative procedures and\nrequirements.\nWhat's Being Requested of the Federal Partner\nOregon is requesting that the Federal Government allow the state\nto retain its \"share\" of the nation's AFDC funds, approximately\n1.3 percent, as it moves recipients to employment, and \"reinvest\"\nthe funds in poverty prevention activities. This overarching\nconcept of \"reinvestment\" underpins the state's welfare initial\nreform strategy and would ultimately extend beyond AFDC to Food\nStamps, Child Care and JOBS. In addition, the state is asking\nthat the Federal Government:\nO\nPermit a common eligibility definition across\nassistance programs, with particular focus on valuation\nof assets, income, and marital status;\nO\nRelax or simplify application, reporting, financial\nmanagement and evaluation requirements to permit\ncomprehensive service delivery.\nWhat's Already Been Done\nOregon has begun to prepare a waiver request under Section 1115\nof the Social Security Act focused predominantly on AFDC, to\naccomplish much of the flexibility and reinvestment needs\ndescribed above. HHS is working with the state throughout the\nprocess to assure that Federal interests, including cost\nneutrality and the establishment of adequate evaluation measures,\nare included in the state's waiver request.\nOREGON: HEALTHY CHILDREN\nOregon's vision, expressed through the Benchmarks, is of \"a place where children begin\ntheir early lives in strong, stable, nurturing and capable families. Their parents have access\nto prenatal and pediatric health care, early childhood education and quality child care.\"\nHEALTHY CHILDREN: TIMEFRAME FOR RESULTS\nChildren\n8 year\nReady\nto Learn\nHIV-infected Babies\nReduced Infant Mortality\nHealthy Birthweight Babies\nChild Abuse & Neglect\n4 - 6 year\nTeen Pregnancy Reduction\n2 year\nTwo-year-old\nPre-natal\nChild Care\nImmunizations\nCare Access\nAccess\nFramework: Oregon's strategies to improve the health of the state's children are\ncomprised of four interrelated approaches:\nPromote responsible parenthood\nGuarantee quality child care choices\nEnsure good health and protection\nMobilize communities to support young children and their families\nThese approaches are also affected by benchmarks in other clusters such as family stability.\nOregon's Strategies to achieve the Healthy Children Benchmarks:\n1. Create a service delivery system for Oregon of home visits by public health nurses and\nother home visitors.\n2. Expand the system of family service centers and school-based health centers.\n3. Strengthen the child care system.\n4. Expand WIC participation.\n5. Promote responsible parenthood.\n6. Promote well child care, including immunization.\n7. Promote access to prenatal care.\nFederal role: Federal funding goes into Oregon for child health-related programs from a\nlarge number of sources, including: the Department of Agriculture (Women, Infants and\nChildren nutrition and health education program, Extension Service), Department of Health\nand Human Services ( Maternal and Child Health, Title V, Immunization, Family Planning\n(Title X), Medicaid, Title XX, and the new Family Preservation and Support Act,\nHeadStart, and the Department of Transportation. Other departments and programs may\nalso be relevant to accomplishing the benchmarks in this cluster.\nCertain federal agencies have made great strides in reducing unnecessary red tape and\nbureaucracy for their programs. Additional efforts to streamline funding, reduce reporting\nrequirements and coordinate efforts to achieve results are being identified to help achieve\nthe Healthy Child Benchmarks of the Oregon Option.\nProgress so far:\nA federal/state/local team has agreed upon an initial set of benchmarks for\nhealthy children and to begin immediately with immunization and access to\nprenatal care.\nThe Conference of Local Health Officials and the Maternity Care Access\nhave endorsed the Healthy Children initiative under the Oregon Option and\nbegun to identify state, local and federal barriers to accomplishing the\nbenchmarks.\nA federal/state/local team met in early October to discuss barriers and define\nspecific steps to facilitate accomplishing the immunization goal. The group\ndeveloped a work plan which agreed on actions for those items within current\ncurrent authorities and identified teams to look at barriers that required\nadditional investigation and possible legislative action.\nThe Department of Health and Human Services has provided Oregon with the\nassurances it was seeking related to Medicaid policies affecting\nimmunizations.\nHHS also provided Oregon technical assistance with outreach for\nimmunization and on data for child health in early October.\nThe U.S. Department of Agriculture Extension Service has identified a\nnumber of specific steps that it can take to facilitate the accomplishmènt of\nthe immunization goal.\nThe National Service Corps has joined Oregon's Preschool Immunization\nConsortium and is seeking ways to support the Oregon Option.\nOregon officials have identified a number of specific new actions that they\nwill take to reduce state and local barriers and facilitate the accomplishment\"\nof this benchmark.\nHighlights of the current status on immunization and prenatal care are described below.\nHEALTHY CHILDREN CHALLENGE: RAISE OREGON'S IMMUNIZATION RATE FOR\nTWO-YEAR-OLDS FROM 53 TO 90 PERCENT WITHIN TWO YEARS.\nWHO: A local-state-federal partnership led by the Oregon Preschool Immunization Consortium.\nParticipants include chief executives of all the state's hospital systems, Blue Cross/Blue Shield,\nOregon Health Sciences University, the Oregon Health Division, country health departments, the\nOregon Nurses Association, the Oregon Medical Association, Rotary Clubs, Oregon Public\nBroadcasting, other insurance companies, and dozens of other professional and voluntary\norganizations. Federal partners include the Departments of Health and Human Services and\nAgriculture and the National Service Corporation.\nHOW: Fast-track new Oregon Preschool Immunization Consortium's marketing plan to reach:\n- parents of pre-school children\n- private and public providers of immunizations\n- corporate and grassroots organizations\nSpeed action on each county's individual immunization plan targeting specific populations:\n- High risk children through Healthy Start and Babies First programs\n- WIC and AFDC families\n- Day care populations\n- Oregon Health Plan new enrollees\nWHAT:\nStatewide Strategy\nIllustrative Federal Support and Flexibility Needed\nIncrease community\n- Have USDA Extension agents support county level\nawareness through\nimmunization efforts.\nmarketing.\n- Assure that donations for Medicaid administrative match are\nallowed from private health care industry.\nAccelerate outreach.\n- Earmark 10% Child Care Block Grant funds for immunization\noutreach.\n- Obtain VISTA leader to support outreach.\n- Train local health departments at Extension Service Leadership\nTraining.\nCreate Immunization\n- Station federal epidemiologist in Oregon to assist.\nRegistry to monitor\n- Maximize use of social security number from birth.\nchildren from birth.\nCreate a Universal\n- Consolidate vaccine funding to support statewide Vaccine Fund\nVaccine Program.\nand Program. Areas to consider: Oregon General Funds,\nMedicaid, Vaccine for Children, 317 Funds.\n- Assign federal employee to assist in development of vaccine\nfund and distribution plan.\n- Seek exemption from ERISA to permit requiring insurers to\ncover immunization in Oregon.\nStreamline and simplify\n- Reduce number of applications, earmarked categories and\nprogram management.\nreporting requirements for immunization programs.\n- DRAFT -\nHEALTHY CHILDREN CHALLENGE: RAISE THE PERCENTAGE OF BABIES WHOSE\nMOTHERS RECEIVE EARLY PRENATAL CARE (BEGINNING IN THE FIRST\nTRIMESTER) FROM 79 PERCENT TO 95 PERCENT BY 1996.\nWHO: A local-state-federal partnership led by the Maternity Care Access Commission, local health\ndepartments and Commissions on Children and Families. Other major partners include the local\nbranches of the American College of Nurse Midwives, the American College of Obstetricians and\nGynecologists, the state and federal Medicaid offices, Health Systems in Collaboration, Oregon\nHealth Sciences University, the Oregon Primary Care Association, Children First for Oregon and the\nOregon Medical Association. Federal partners include the Departments of Health and Human\nServices, Agriculture and Education.\nHOW:\nBegin with the results of a recently completed maternity survey to determine barriers to care.\nUse a recently acquired federal grant to develop plans in targeted high-risk communities.\nExamine insurance coverage policies for high-risk groups (teens, certain minorities,\nundocumented) with an eye toward changing obstructive policies.\nExpand the network of school-based clinics.\nWHAT:\nState Strategy\nIllustrative Federal Support and Flexibility Needed\nUnder development\nUnder development\nDATA CLUSTER\nBackground: Oregon has proposed a fundamental change in the intergovernmental\nrelationship based on a simple principle: increased flexibility in exchange for improved\nperformance and specific results. The viability of this principle hinges on reliable and\ntimely information about accomplishments.\nOregon: The State Legislature established The Oregon Progress Board to track progress on\nthe benchmarks. The Progress Board draws on a variety of federal, state and local sources\nof data to provide information about changes in the well-being of their population as a\nresult of a variety of efforts. Oregon commissioned a biennial survey on the benchmarks\nand several other special-purpose surveys (for example, a literacy survey) to provide data\nfor some benchmarks. As a result of their efforts, although gaps still exist, Oregon is a state\nalready rich in data.\nFederal Role: The federal government provides substantial information for the\nBenchmarks, especially through the Census (in particular the decennial census), the Bureau\nof Labor Statistics, and the National Center for Health Statistics. It is essential to the\nsuccess of the Oregon Option that such information continue to be available. In addition,\nOregon has requested federal assistance in filling data gaps, improving data quality,\nproviding technical assistance, providing more data for counties and local jurisdictions, and\nidentifying promising practices for accomplishing the benchmarks.\nProgress To Date:\nThe National Performance Review held an August briefing for the federal statistical\ncommunity on the Oregon Option and the Oregon Benchmarks.\nAt the request of OMB. senior staff from Census and the Bureau of Labor Statistics\nparticipated in the September site visit and met with the Oregon Progress Board and\nother local data users. They identified data strategies, needs and areas of\ncooperation. For example, federal agencies agreed to review the benchmarks to\ndetermine if there are additional sources of information and to assess the adequacy\nof current statistics. A federal/Oregon data cluster formed out of this meeting.\nOMB's Statistical Policy Office is facilitating participation of federal statistical\nagencies in the Oregon Option. A draft \"Plan of Action\" has been developed to\nprovide an umbrella for assistance to Oregon and that would also result in products\nuseful to other states. The plan will be presented to the federal statistical community.\nCensus has begun to provide substantial technical assistance to Oregon. For example,\nCensus is helping Oregon with population estimates for counties and other\napproaches that will save the state time and expense. They are assisting with special\ndata tabulations, such as 1990 census tabulations related to welfare reform, and\nstatistical assistance to improve the quality of surveys sponsored by Oregon.\nThe Bureau of Labor Statistics is exploring ways that it can assist\nOregon, for example, by developing an index of workforce\ndiversification.\nThe Department of Health and Human Services sent a team to Oregon\nin October to identify ways to assist in the strengthening of child health\nand related data.\nClinton Presidential Records\nDigital Records Marker\nThis is not a presidential record. This is used as an administrative\nmarker by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library Staff.\nThis marker identifies the place of a tabbed divider. Given our\ndigitization capabilities, we are sometimes unable to adequately\nscan such dividers. The title from the original document is\nindicated below.\nList of Federal Inter-\nAgency Action Team\nDivider Title:\nClinton Presidential Records\nDigital Records Marker\nThis is not a presidential record. This is used as an administrative\nmarker by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library Staff.\nThis marker identifies the place of a tabbed divider. Given our\ndigitization capabilities, we are sometimes unable to adequately\nscan such dividers. The title from the original document is\nindicated below.\nList of Federal Inter-\nAgency Action Team\nDivider Title:\nTHE OREGON OPTION\nFederal Interagency Action Team\nNational Performance Review\n*Beverly Godwin\nPamela Johnson\nLabor\n*Lorraine Chang, ETA\nDomestic Policy Council\nArmando Quiroz, Seattle ETA\n*Kathi Way\nTom Plewes, BLS\nTerry Finegan, ETA\nOffice of Management & Budget\n*Jonathan Breul\nEducation\nWoody Jackson\n*Judy Wurtzel\nKathy Wallman\nKen Tolo\nJoe Wholey\nTalmira Hill\nSteve Redburn\nothers\nothers\nUSDA\nONDCP\n*Alma Hobbs, Extension Service\n*John Gregrich\nMike Fishman, FNS\nMitch Geasler, OS\nHHS\nWayne Fawbush, RDA\n*David Garrison, OS/IGA\nBill Ludwig, FNS\nAstrid Merget, OS/ASPE\nSteve Henigson, ACF/Seattle\nCommerce\nRegional Office\n*Cynthia Taeuber, Census\nSusanne Stoiber, PHS\nBill Butz, Census\nTa Zitans, PHS\nLinda Trageser\nHoward Rolston, ACF\nGlenn Kamber, ASPE\nHUD\nJerry Britten, ASPE\nundetermined\nEd Martin, ASMB\nJustice\n*Shay Bilchik\nReggie Robinson\nMichael Dallich\nOlga Trujillo, OGC\nothers\n*key contact\ni:\\stlocalloregon\\team\nDOMESTIC POLICY COUNCIL MEETING\nMONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1994\n5:30-6:30 p.m.\nROOSEVELT ROOM\nENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE DISCUSSION\n(2 MINUTES)\nWELCOME AND INTRODUCTION\nJOHN DEUTCH, DEPUTY SECRETARY,\nDEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (DoD)\nDANIEL S. GOLDIN, ADMINISTRATOR,\nNATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE\nADMINISTRATION (NASA)\nIVAN SELIN, CHAIRMAN, NUCLEAR REGULATORY\nCOMMISSION (NRC)\nCAROL BROWNER - UPDATE\n(7-8 MINUTES)\nDISCUSSION\n(19 MINUTES)\no HOW TO INCORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE\nINTO AGENCY MISSIONS.\no THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTAL\nJUSTICE AND OTHER ISSUES SUCH AS AFFORDABLE\nHOUSING, HEALTH CARE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT,\nWORKER SAFETY, SMALL AND MINORITY BUSINESS\nDEVELOPMENT.\n0 HOW CAN WE IMPROVE INTERAGENCY\nCOOPERATION BY CREATING OR EXPANDING\nPROJECTS THAT WILL HELP AFFECTED\nCOMMUNITIES.\n0 HOW CAN WE ENHANCE COMMUNITIES, INDUSTRY,\nSTATE, LOCAL, AND TRIBAL GOVERNMENT\nPARTICPATION AS WE DEVELOP ENVIRONMENTAL\nJUSTICE STRATEGIES.\nSENT BY:Xcrox Telecopier 7020 : 5- 6-94 : 12:39 :\nThe White House-\n67431:# 2\nMay 5, 1994\nMEMORANDUM FOR THE DOMESTIC POLICY COUNCIL\nFROM:\nCarol II. Rasco, Assistant to the President for\nDomestic Policy\nSUBJECT: Meeting Agenda for May 9, 1994\nThe Domestic Policy Council will meet for its bi-weekly meeting\non Monday, May 9 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Roosevelt Room.\nPlease remember that due to space limitations, this meeting is\nfor principale only or one designee if you cannot be present\nyourself. If there is to be a designee, please have the\nclearance (456-2216). information shared with Rosalyn Miller in my office\nAGENDA\nDomestic Policy Council\nMonday, May 9, 1994\n5:30-6:30 p.m.\nI.\nLegislative Updates:\nBudget\nLeon Panetta\nCrime Legislation\nRon Klain\nHealth Reform\nLynn Margherio\nII. Summer of Safety/AmeriCorps\nGrent Awards/Applications\nEli Segal\n-\n-\nThe next meeting will be held on Monday, May 23, 5:30-6:30 P.M. Please\nremember to call Rosalyn Miller at 456-2216 by the close of business\nWednesday, May 18 with suggested agenda items.\nAgenda\nDOMESTIC POLICY COUNCIL\nAPRIL 25, 1994\n5:30p-5:55p\nAda Deer, Ass't Sec'y\nDiscussion of the concepts and principles of\ntribal sovereignty\ngovernment-to-government relationship\nthe nature of the trust responsibility\nAda Deer, Ass't Sec'y\nDiscussion of the significance of *elements of the event\n*\n(1) Sight Blessing\nPrincipals enter\n(2) Presentation of Colors\nFaith\nRessell\n*\n(3) Opening Invocation (stand)\n*\n(4) Honor Song (stand)\n(5) Introductions\n(6) Tribal Leadership Presentations on Issues of Concern\nEight Presentations\n(7) Presidential Address\nSigning Presidential Directives\n*\n(8) Presentation of Gifts to President Clinton, the First\nLady, Vice President Gore and Mrs. Gore\n(9) Retire the Colors\n(10) Closing Prayer (stand)\n(11) Closing Honor Song (stand)\nDonsia Strong\nDiscussion of Presidential Directives\nAGENDA\nDomestic Policy Council\nMonday, February 7\n5:30-6:30 p.m.\nPLEASE NOTE THAT THE TIME FOR THIS AND ALL MEETINGS HEREAFTER\nWILL BE 5:30-6:30 P.M. IN THE ROOSEVELT ROOM.\nSchool to Work\nSecretary Reich\nSecretary Riley\nUrban Strategy\nSecretary Cisneros\n(see attachment)\nNational Service\nEli Segal\nIntergovernmental Report\nMarcia Hale\nUpdates:\nDrug Control Strategy\nHomelessness Coordinated Plan\nDUE TO THE HOLIDAY, WE WILL NOT MEET ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21. THE\nNEXT MEETING WILL BE HELD ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 5:30-6:30 P.M.\nAND WILL THEREAFTER CONTINUE WITH THE BI-WEEKLY SCHEDULE. Please\nremember to call Rosalyn Miller at 456-2216 by the close of\nbusiness Wednesday, February 23 with suggested agenda items.\nCC: Mack McLarty\nPhil Lader\nRicki Seidman\nMark Gearan\nChristine Varney\nKatie McGinty\nDPC Staff\nDRAFT OUTLINE OF THE POLICY FRAMEWORK FOR THE PRESIDENT'S\nNATIONAL URBAN POLICY REPORT (REVISED 2/2/94)\nTHE PRESIDENT'S\nCOMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT STRATEGY\nThe Problem\nThe changing structure of the U.S. economy is increasingly\nconcentrating poverty and unemployment among racial minorities in\nthe inner cities and a growing number of suburban communities.\nThese changes are impeding our national economic growth through\nthe loss of human resources and labor productivity.\nIn addition, problems such as joblessness among African-\nAmerican youth and men, rising teenage pregnancy and single-\nparent households, children in poverty and poor health,\nhomelessness, welfare dependency, and crime are diminishing the\nquality of life throughout metropolitan areas. Many urban\ncommunities and low-income people must be brought back into the\nmainstream of American life with decent jobs, stable families,\nadequate health care, affordable housing, and accessible\ntransportation.\nThe Goals\nThe primary goals of the President's Community Empowerment\nStrategy are to create economic opportunity and ensure that\nresidents of distressed communities share in the benefits of\neconomic growth. Our most urgent task is to restore to every\nAmerican the conviction that if they work hard, they will be\nrewarded -- the absolute, unshakable belief that they can make\ntheir future better. We cannot do that without a community-based\neffort and without a partnership with employers all across the\ncountry. Three principles for reaching these goals are:\n1.\nEvery American should have real opportunities and\nchoices for where they live and work.\nPeople should be able to choose, and be fully\nresponsible for the choices they make. If they wish to\nlive and work in the inner city, that should be their\nchoice. But living amidst drug dealing, violence and\ndeterioration is not a real choice -- no one should be\nforced to live in such conditions. On the other hand,\nif people want to live and/or work in other parts of\nthe metropolitan area, but are prevented from doing so\nby discriminatory housing practices, unfair mortgage\nlending, job discrimination, and lack of affordable\ntransportation, then they also have no real choice. To\nachieve real choices, we must work on parallel tracks -\n- revitalizing distressed communities, providing access\nto metropolitan job markets, and promoting residential\n2\nmobility and fair housing. To achieve real choices,\nindividuals must take responsibility for their lives,\ntheir families, their workplaces and their communities.\n2.\nEvery community should encourage active participation\nin local decision-making and civic culture to increase\neconomic opportunity and enhance quality of life.\nCommunities should be able to choose their destiny\nand move through dynamic transitions to reach their\ngoals. To successfully make these changes they must\ninclude all of the community's residents,\norganizations, and institutions, public and private, in\nlocal decision-making and community partnerships. The\nvoices of the disadvantaged and disenfranchised should\nbe part of this community collaboration. Promoting\nbasic values of work, responsibility, family, and\ncommunity is the basis for reviving and sustaining\ncivic culture. We need to care for our neighbors and\ncreate an environment of mutual respect. Local\ngovernment, private business, community organizations\nand residents in partnership with the Federal\ngovernment and the States, must be part of this new\nsocial contract, working together to revitalize\ndistressed neighborhoods.\n3. Every American who needs help should be able to step up\na ladder of opportunity and climb toward self-\nsufficiency.\nThis means giving people a hand-up, not a hand-\nout. For example, it involves helping residents of\ndistressed communities move from welfare dependency to\ngainful employment. It can also include helping low-\nincome tenants move to homeownership, and helping\nhomeless people move from the streets to permanent\nhousing and jobs. This principle requires policies\nthat are dynamic and provide movement upward to\nsomething better, rather than static services. It\nmeans diverse government agencies and functions coming\ntogether to help people climb from one step of the\nladder up to the next, reinterpreting government's role\nas preparing people for the next stage.\n3\nChapter I.\nThe Economic Context\nThe first chapter introduces the report and provides\nthe macroeconomic context. A healthy national economy is\nessential for the success of the President's community\nempowerment strategy. This chapter examines national\neconomic growth policies that benefit distressed\ncommunities, including:\nA.\nReducing the Federal Budget Deficit\nMaintaining business confidence, keeping interest\nrates and inflation low, and promoting new private\nand public investment\nB.\nIncreasing Economic Growth and Productivity\nImproving investment in human and physical capital\nin distressed communities.\nInvesting in new technology, the National\nInformation Infrastructure, and other essential\ncapital improvements.\nPromoting housing production and homeownership to\nstrengthen the economic recovery.\nChapter II.\nExpanding Real Choices for Where People Live and\nWork\nTo achieve real choices, we must work on parallel\ntracks -- revitalizing distressed communities, providing\naccess to metropolitan job markets, and promoting\nresidential mobility and fair housing. Individuals must\ntake responsibility for their lives, their families, their\nworkplaces and their communities. The second chapter\nexplains policies and programs designed to increase real\nchoices for where people live and work, including:\nA.\nImproving Education, Job Training, and Employment\nOpportunities\nProviding for reemployment initiatives to adapt\nthe workforce to a changing economy, including\nTemporary NAFTA Assistance, a comprehensive\ndislocated workers program, One-Stop Shop for\nEmployment Assistance, profiling for unemployed\nworkers, income contingent education and training\nloans, and Excel Accounts.\n4\nB.\nIncreasing Residential and Job Choice\nExpand metropolitan fair housing initiatives and\nresidential mobility programs.\nAggressively enforce laws and regulations for fair\nhousing, fair lending and insurance, and equal\nemployment opportunity.\nIncrease nationally portable rental assistance\nlinked to employment and housing search services\nand mobility counseling.\nC.\nEstablishing Universal Health Care Coverage\nEnsuring basic medical services for every american\nsupports individual income security and\nresidential and job mobility\nD. Expanding Transportation Mobility\nImprove access to metropolitan employment and\nhousing markets through innovative public and\nprivate transportation investment.\nChapter III.\nPromoting Community Economic Development and\nQuality of Life.\nTo strengthen economic opportunity and quality of life,\ncommunities should encourage active participation in local\ndecisionmaking. Promoting values of work, responsibility,\nfamily, and community is the basis for reviving and\nsustaining civic culture. Local government, private\nbusiness, community organizations and residents, in\npartnership with the Federal government and the States, must\nbe part of a new social contract: everyone working together\nto revitalize distressed neighborhoods. This chapter covers\na wide range of policies and programs designed to improve\ncommunity life, including:\nA.\nExpanding Private and Public Investment in Cities and\nDistressed Communities to Create Jobs, Rebuild\nInfrastructure, and Support Community Development\nCreating Empowerment Zones and Enterprise\nCommunities -- if we are to ensure the economic\nrebirth of distressed communities, we must create\na full partnership between the private sector,\ngovernment, and the communities themselves.\n5\nProviding access to capital, credit, and banking\nservices through regulatory actions to ease the\ncredit crunch, strengthening the Community\nReinvestment Act, and supporting the growth of\nCommunity Development Financial Institutions.\nSupporting economic development projects with gap\nfinancing for essential retail outlets in\ndistressed communities.\nTargeting small and minority business assistance\nwith Small Business Administration One-Stop\nCapital Shops, Minority Entrepreneurship, and\nexpanded Microenterprise Loans.\nEncouraging innovative investment partnerships\nwith pension funds, financial institutions, State\nand local finance agencies, government-sponsored\nenterprises such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,\nand other sources of investment and credit.\nB. Reducing Crime\nPut 100,000 police officers on the streets to work\nwith communities that need them most\nIncrease Federal, State, and local public and\nprivate support for Community Policing, Boot\nCamps, Safe Schools, weapons legislation, and\ngrass roots anti-crime initiatives for public and\ngovernment-assisted housing and distressed\nneighborhoods.\nThe Safe Schools initiative will help provide a\nmore secure environment for young people to learn\nand grow and communities to support education\nprograms.\nC.\nCreating More Affordable Housing and Homeownership\nProvide investment incentives for affordable\nhousing and homeownership, including Federal Low-\nIncome Housing Tax Credits and State and Local\nMortgage Revenue Bonds.\nStrengthen Federal Housing Administration Mortgage\nInsurance Programs and create no down payment\nfinancing for revitalizing urban neighborhoods\nwith affordable homeownership.\n6\nInitiate risk-sharing credit partnerships with\ngovernment-sponsored enterprises and State housing\nfinance agencies.\nImprove public housing developments and turn\naround distressed housing and neighborhoods\nthrough the Urban Revitalization Demonstration.\nD. Improving Community Health Services\nExpanding the services provided by essential\nCommunity Providers under Title I (E) (3) of the\nHealth Security Act.\nProviding funding for Academic Health Centers.\nExpanding health services for medically\nunderserved populations by funding community and\nmigrant health centers and initiatives for access\nto health care.\nE. Improving Education\nTighter targeting of Chapter I funds will assure\nthat schools in poor communities have the\nresources targeted to meet the Goals 2000 plan.\nF.\nSupporting Comprehensive Community Planning for\nTransportation, Land-Use, Environment, and Economic\nDevelopment.\nRenew the national commitment to mass transit,\ninnovative land-use planning, and rebuilding\ninfrastructure to improve community accessibility\nand services.\nG.\nExpanding Opportunities for Community Involvement\nthrough National Service and Other Methods\nStrengthening community organizations through the\nNational Community Development Initiative and the\nCommunity Viability Fund.\nPromoting community service through the National\nService program and federal Community Services\nGrants.\n7\nEncouraging community participation in Empowerment\nZones and Enterprise Communities.\nChapter IV.\nMoving up Ladders of Opportunity and Self-\nSufficiency.\nThis chapter is about giving people a hand-up, not\na hand-out. It focuses on dynamic policies that\nprovide movement to something better, enabling people\nto make transitions in their lives, climbing from one\nstep of the ladder to the next -- to better jobs,\nhousing, health, and safe communities. The chapter\ndiscusses key policies and programs that support\nsuccessful transitions, including:\nA.\nReforming Welfare and Making Work Pay.\nIncreasing the Earned Income Tax Credit to reduce\neconomic dependency and expand self-sufficiency\nTransforming welfare from a dependency trap to an\nopportunity gateway by firmly linking income\nsupport to education, job training, and employment\nassistance.\nSupporting the move from welfare to work by\nproviding child care and universal health coverage\nReduce the need for welfare by promoting parental\nresponsibility and preventing teenage pregnancy.\nStrengthen child support enforcement so that\nnoncustodial parents pay more of the costs of\nraising their children.\nB.\nIncreasing Self-Sufficiency and Career Ladder\nOpportunities\nProviding opportunities for at-risk youth and ex-\noffenders in low-income areas to obtain skills and\nenter the job market through programs such as\nYouth Fair Chance, Youthbuild, Job Corps, and Jobs\nfor Residents.\nThe School-To-Work transition program will develop\na high quality system to prepare youth for\nlifelong learning and career advancement.\nIncreasing availability of Family and Medical\nLeave, and Child and Elder Care services, to\n8\nsupport family life along with successful jobs and\ncareers.\nExpanding the Head Start program will improve\neducation opportunities for low-income children in\npoor communities.\nC. Expanding Homeownership Opportunities\nProvide homeownership vouchers to low-income\nfamilies and expand homeownership counseling and\nthe National Homeownership Trust.\nD.\nReducing Homelessness through Continuum of Care\nExpand innovative and comprehensive local efforts\nusing the Continuum of Care approach -- help\nhomeless people get off the streets into decent\nemergency shelters, assist them in moving to\ntransitional housing and services, and then to\npermanent housing and jobs.\nE.\nImproving Health\nProviding grants for substance abuse programs.\nIncreasing childhood immunization to prevent\ndisease and protect the health of low-income\nchildren.\nV.\nReinventing Community Governance\nThis chapter is about implementing the President's\ncommunity empowerment strategy. It explores the role of\ngovernment, business, and community institutions in forming\ninnovative partnerships and building bridges for effective\naction. These new approaches involve reinventing service\ndelivery for greater efficiency and flexibility, promoting\nperformance-driven management, and reaching across all\nlevels of government, including:\nA.\nThe President's Community Enterprise Board\nStreamline existing programs to help each\ncommunity realize its own strategic revitalization\nplan. Through regulatory and program flexibility\nand waivers, the Federal government will help\ncommunities become laboratories for change,\nencouraging comprehensive vision, innovative local\nand metropolitan partnerships, and community-\n9\noriented private sector entrepreneurship and\ninvestment.\nB.\nPerformance Agreements and Results-Oriented\nGovernment\nThe President will sign Performance Agreements\nwith cabinet secretaries and agency administrators\nto create results-oriented government, greater\ncooperation, higher performance, and more public\naccountability in management, program, and service\ndelivery.\nC.\nCross-cutting Initiatives and Interagency Cooperation\nEncourage the development of links between human\ndevelopment strategies in education, health, and\njob training, with physical development strategies\nin housing, transportation, and community\ndevelopment.\nD.\nRegulatory Waiver Authority and Local Flexibility\nEmphasize the need for bottom-up, collaborative\nstrategies through regulatory waiver authority and\nlocal flexibility to solve problems. State and\nlocal regulations can be just as burdensome as\nfederal ones. A real partnership and flexibility\nat all levels of government is needed to\nrevitalize communities.\nE.\nLocal Demonstration Projects and Innovative Community\nand Metropolitan Partnerships\nEmpowering local initiative to experiment with new\nideas and to link distressed communities to\nmetropolitan regional development.\nF.\nThe President's Fair Housing Council\nBring together cabinet departments, law\nenforcement agencies, and financial regulators for\nthe first time to focus on coordinated and\ncomprehensive efforts to expand equal opportunity\nand residential choice, working in partnership\nwith state and local government, private business,\nand nonprofit groups.\nKathe\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nJanuary 21, 1994\nTO:\nDomestic Policy Council\nFROM:\nCarol H. CHR Rasco, Assistant to the President for\nDomestic Policy\nSUBJECT: Agenda for January 24, 1994\nThe Domestic Policy Council will meet for its bi-weekly meeting\non Monday, January 24 from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. in the Roosevelt\nRoom. Please remember that due to space limitations, this\nmeeting is for principals only or one designee if you cannot be\npresent yourself. If there is to be a designee, please have the\nclearance information shared with Rosalyn Miller in my office\n(456-2216).\nAGENDA\nDomestic Policy Council\nMonday, January 24, 1994\nHealth Care Reform\nIra Magaziner\nWelfare Reform\nSecretary Shalala\nMayors and Governors Meetings\nMarcia Hale\nUpdates:\nDrug Stategy\nHomelessness Coordinated Plan\nThe next meeting will be held on Monday, February 7. Please\nremember to call Rosalyn Miller by the close of business\nWednesday, February 2 with suggested agenda items.\nCC: Mack McLarty\nPhil Lader\nChristine Varney\nRicki Seidman\nJack Gibbons\nKatie McGinty\nDPC Staff\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nJanuary 7, 1994\nTO: Domestic Policy Council\nFROM: Carol H. Rasco\nAssistant to the President for Domestic Policy\nSUBJ: Agenda for Monday, January 10\nThe Domestic Policy Council will meet for its first 1994 bi-\nweekly informal communication meeting on Monday, January 10 at\n5:00 p.m. for one hour in the Roosevelt Room. Please remember\nthis meeting is for principals only with a designee welcome if\nthe principal cannot attend. If you have not already done so,\nplease respond to Rosalyn Miller (456-2216) as to the person\nattending from your department.\nAGENDA\nI. Federal Plan to Break the\nCycle of Homelessness\nSecretary Cisneros\nII. 1994 National Drug Control Strategy\nDirector Brown\nIII. CDC AIDS Prevention Program\nSecretary Shalala\nNOTICE: Next meeting, Monday, January 24, 5 to 6 p.m. (The night\nbefore THE speech!) in the Roosevelt Room\nSuggested agenda items due by noon Wednesday, January 19\nto Rosalyn Miller, 456-2216\nCC:\nMack McLarty\nPhil Lader\nChristine Varney\nDPC Staff\nKristine Gebbie\nJack Gibbons\nKatie McGinty\nJack Quinn\nDETERMINED TO BE AN\nADMINISTRATIVE MARKING\nINITIALS: @ DATE: 01/25/11\nCONFIDENTIAL\nDRAFT\nFEDERAL PLAN TO BREAK THE CYCLE OF HOMELESSNESS\nForeword.\nBuild on points from \"putting people first\" and other\ncampaign statements\nMay 19, 1993 Executive Order\nDevelopment of a Federal plan--methods: outreach,\ninteractive forums, mail solicitations.\nI\nBackground and History.\n1.\nCauses of homelessness\nO\nThere is no one single cause of homelessness and many types\nof homeless persons who should not be pigeonholed into\ncertain stereotyped classes. That only confuses a very\ncomplex issue.\nThe rise of homelessness in the 1980s is very complex but\nmay have two major causal streams:\n--The first stream was the increased crisis of poverty in\nthe U.S.\n--The second stream is the growing number of persons in\nAmerican society who are not receiving adequate treatment\nfor drug addiction, alcoholism, and mental illness.\no\nIn any one city during a given period of time the residents\nof the shelters constitute a complex mix of the homeless\ncoming from both groups.\n2.\nPast efforts to deal with homelessness\na.\nLocal pioneering efforts largely through private nonprofit\nsocial service agencies and a few progressive local\ngovernments predated Federal or state involvement.\nb.\nState efforts minimal.\nC.\nFederal efforts late in coming, focusing initially on\nemergency care.\n3.\nCurrent Federal policies and programs\na.\nMcKinney Act programs\nb.\nNon-Mckinney Act programs\n4.\nStrengths and weaknesses of past efforts\na.\nValuable experience gained from the past decades of efforts\nto help the homeless.\nb.\nA separate system created to help the homeless outside of\nmainstream of American social service and housing system.\nC.\nFocus on short-term emergency needs not effective for\nhomeless persons needing long-term assistance.\nd.\nLack of balance between emergency, transitional and long-\nterm facilities at the local level.\ne\nFederal program fragmentation.\nII THE FEDERAL PLAN TO BREAK THE CYCLE OF HOMELESSNESS\nIntroduction on basic Federal philosophy and role in\naddressing needs of homeless in partnership with local\ngovernments and non-profit community.\n1.\nBroad attack on basic poverty.\no\nLittle progress can be made on attacking homeless unless\nsubstantial progress is made in dealing with basic problems\nof poverty in families.\no\nTherefore, efforts should continue and expand to reduce\npoverty: implement Earned Income Tax Credits, increase the\nminimum wage, continuing with welfare reform, expand jobs\nnear poverty concentrations or improving accessibility of\npoor to jobs, improving school to work programs to prepare\npoor youth for post-industrial society, fight racism and\nreduce concentration of low and moderate income housing,\nimprove effectiveness of manpower training and other\nprograms to help poor achieve self-sufficiency, expand\nprograms to deal with problems of poor single adults.\nExpand supply of affordable housing outside of poverty\ntracts, increase funding for housing rehabilitation and\nSection 8 to meet needs of millions who are poorly housed,\nundertake major effort to improve the nexus between public\nand assisted housing and social services by substantial\noutreach of HHS and DOL programs in public and assisted\nhousing to help residents achieve self-sufficiency.\n2.\nImprove efforts to deal with homeless with disabilities.\nWhere appropriate, encourage involvement in Federal\nmainstream assistance programs for homeless and formerly\nhomeless people. Condition mental health block grant on\ndealing with mentally ill in the street and developing\nadequate institutional discharge procedures so that new\nhomeless persons are not continually created.\nPass health care reform to help meet needs of homeless\nindividuals suffering from mental illness, alcoholism, or\nsubstance abuse.\n3.\nImprove coordination and improve homeless programs.\nImprove coordination of homeless job training and\nAHA!\nprograms.\n* MODERNIZATION\nThe\nImprove coordination of weatherization programs.\nAnswer!\nIf so\noutside,\nImprove coordination and streamline existing targeted\nFederal homeless assistance programs which fund emergency\nshelters and services.\nthis wald toblem be\n4.\nImprove homeless prevention activities. Promote\ncoordination and cooperation among Federal agencies to\nensure that their mainstream programs support State and\nLOTS OF\nlocal prevention efforts.\nWARM PRISON\n5.\nPromote continuum of care beyond emergency services.\nRedirect Federal funding to require links between housing\nBELLSUILT will\nand support services for homeless.\nSOON!\nEncourage creative and cost-effective local approaches,\nincluding integrating emergency shelter with long-term\nhousing assistance, education and employment opportunities\nthrough technical assistance and training.\nFederal agencies should encourage applicants to demonstrate\na fully coordinated and comprehensive approach to addressing\nthe identified needs of homeless people.\nDevelop additional interagency collaborative efforts,\nincluding joint review of applications for competitive grant\nprograms, memorandum of understanding, special technical\nassistance, etc.\nIII\nCONCLUSIONS--STEPS TO IMPLEMENTATION\nSENT BY:Xcrox Telecopier 7020 ; 9- 7-93 : 15:20\n:\nThe White House-\n202 456 7028:# 3\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nAGENDA FOR DOMESTIC POLICY COUNCIL MEETING\nWednesday, September 8\nRoosevelt ROOM\n2:00 - 3:00 p.m.\n2:00 p.m.\nI.\nOpening Remarks\nPresident Clinton\n2:10 p.m.\nII. Program Updates\nA. Office of the National Drug Control Policy\nLee Brown\nB. Office of the AIDS Policy Coordinator\nKristine Gebbie\n2:35 p.m.\nIII. Health Care Reform\nHillary Rodham Clinton\nIra Magaziner\n3:00 p.m.\nIV. Adjourn\nSENT BY:Xcrox Telecopier 7020 : 8- 7-93 : 15:18 :\nThe White House-\n202 456 7028:# 2\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nSeptember 7, 1993\nMEMORANDUM FOR DOMESTIC POLICY COUNCIL\nFROM:\nCarol H. Rasco, Assistant to the President for\nDomestic Policy CSR\nSUBJECT:\nMeeting Agenda\nAttached is the agenda for the Domestic Policy Council meeting to\nbe held September 8, 1993, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. in the Roosevelt\nRoom.\nAs stated in a previous memorandum, because of space limitations,\nthis meeting is for principals only. If the principal is unable\nto attend, please call Rosalyn at 456-2216 with the name, date of\nbirth, and social security number of the designes.\nSENT BY:Xcrox Telecopier 7020 : 8- 7-93 : 15:18\n:\nThe White House-\n202 456 7028:# 2\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nSeptember 7, 1993\nMEMORANDUM FOR DOMESTIC POLICY COUNCIL\nFROM:\nCarol H. Rasco, Assistant to the President for\nDomestic Policy CSR\nSUBJECT:\nMeeting Agenda\nAttached is the agenda for the Domestic Policy Council meeting to\nbe held September 8, 1993, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. in the Roosevelt\nRoom.\nAs stated in a previous memorandum, because of space limitations,\nthis meeting is for principals only. If the principal is unable\nto attend, please call Rosalyn at 456-2216 with the name, date of\nbirth, and social security number of the designes.\nSENT BY:Xcrox Telecopier 7020 ; 8- 7-93 : 15:20\n:\nThe White House-\n202 456 7028:# 3\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nAGENDA FOR DOMESTIC POLICY COUNCIL MEETING\nWednesday, September 8\nRoosevelt ROOM\n2:00 - 3:00 p.m.\n2:00 p.m.\nI.\nOpening Remarks\nPresident Clinton\n2:10 p.m.\nII. Program Updates\nA. Office of the National Drug Control Policy\nLee Brown\nB. Office of the AIDS Policy Coordinator\nKristine Gebbie\n2:35 p.m.\nIII. Health Care Reform\nHillary Rodham Clinton\nIra Magaziner\n3:00 p.m.\nIV. Adjourn\nSENT BY:Xcrox Telecopier 7020 ; 9- 7-93 ; 15:19\n:\nThe White House-\n202 456 7028:# 1\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nFAX COVER SHEET\nOFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR DOMESTIC POLICY\nSECOND FLOOR, WEST WING\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON DC 20500\n(202)456-2216 PHONE\n(202)456-2878 FAX\nTO: Dornestic Policy Program Staff\nFAX #: 7028\nFROM: CAROL H. RASCO\nDATE: 9-7-93\nNUMBER OF PAGES (including cover sheet) : 3\nCOMMENTS: Please note that ALL DPC Program Staff\nis exception to attend -please Proz to Conflon\nreceist If you have and any of problems this fax with the and fax transmission, attendance.\nplease call\nat (202)456-2216.\nThe document accompanying this facsimile transmittal sheet is\nintended only for the use of the individual or entity to whom it\nis addressed. This message contains information which may be\nprivileged, confidential or exempt from disclosure under\napplicable law. If the reader of this message is not the\nintended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for\ndelivering the message to the intended recipient, you are hereby\nnotified that any disclosure. dissemination, copying or\ndistribution, or the taking of any action in reliance on the\ncontents of this communication is strictly prohibited.\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nJune 4, 1993\nMEMORANDUM FOR DOMESTIC POLICY COUNCIL\nFROM:\nCarol H. Rasco, W Assistant to the President for\nDomestic Policy\nSUBJECT:\nAgenda for Thursday, June 10 Meeting\nAttached is the final list of the Domestic Policy Council\nmembership as well as a copy of the agenda approved by\nPresident Clinton for the meeting on Thursday, June 10 in the\nRoosevelt Room at 10 a.m. Due to space limitations, this meeting\nwill be limited to Principals only with the Domestic Policy\nCouncil staff present as observers.\nPlease do not hesitate to call me if you have questions about the\nagenda.\nI look forward to seeing you on Thursday.\nCC: The Chief of Staff\nCounselor to the President\nSenior Advisor to the President on Policy and Strategy\nThe Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the\nOffice on Environmental Policy\nChief of Staff to the First Lady\nThe Deputy Assistant to the President and Secretary to the\nCabinet\nDomestic Policy Council Staff\nMagaziner\nReed\nWay\nCerda\nHeenan\nMargherio\nSampson\nSchmidt\nStrong\nWalden\nWeinstein\n-2-\nAGENDA FOR DOMESTIC POLICY COUNCIL\nJune 10, 1993\nRoosevelt Room\n10 - 11:30 a.m.\n10:00 a.m. - 10: 10 a.m.\nI. Opening Remarks\nPresident Clinton\n10:10 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.\nII. Legislative and Program Updates\nA. EPA\nDirector Browner\nB. Transportation\nSecretary Pena\nC. Education\nSecretary Riley\nD. HHS\nSecretary Shalala\n10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.\nIII. Community Empowerment and\nWelfare Reform Discussion\nFull Council\n11:30 a.m.\nIV. Adjournment\n-3-\nMembership of the Domestic Policy Council:\nPresident\nVice-President\nHHS\nJustice\nLabor\nVeterans\nInterior\nEducation\nHUD\nAgriculture\nTransportation\nCommerce\nEnergy\nEPA\nOMB\nCEA\nAssistant to the President for Domestic Policy\nAssistant to the President for Economic Policy\nAssistant to the President and Director of the Office of National\nService\nSenior Advisor to the President for Policy Development\nDrug Director\nAIDS Policy Coordinator\nSuch other officials of executive departments and agencies as the\nPresident may from time to time, designate.\nTALKING POINTS\nDOMESTIC POLICY COUNCIL MEETING\nON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND EMPOWERMENT\nJune 10, 1993\nTALKING POINTS FOR POOL SPRAY\n*\nI'm here for a briefing from the Domestic Policy Council on what we're doing to\nempower individuals and communities to get ahead.\n*\nI asked for a progress report on:\n* my Empowerment Zone plan to create jobs in poor communities, which\npassed the House last month and is under consideration in the Senate;\n* our expanded Earned Income Tax Credit, to make sure that no one in\nAmerica who works full-time with a family at home has to live in poverty, which is\nat the heart of my economic plan;\n* my pledge to put 100,000 new police on the streets, to make our\nneighborhoods safe again;\n*\nlegislation we will soon propose to create a national network of community\ndevelopment banks; and\n* our efforts to work with Congress and the governors on a plan to end welfare\nas we know it.\n*\nMuch of this agenda is part of my economic plan, which is all the more reason I\nhope the Senate will approve it quickly. We need my economic plan if we're going to begin\nto provide opportunity, inspire responsibility, and restore community in this country.\nSUMMARY OF CLINTON INITIATIVES\nCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND EMPOWERMENT\n1. Earned Income Tax Credit\nThe economic plan would expand the Earned Income Tax Credit to lift more working\nfamilies above the poverty threshold and to provide a greater work incentive to low-income\nworkers. The proposal would ensure that if a family of four or fewer people had a full-time\nminimum wage worker, the family would be lifted to the poverty line so long as it also\nreceived food stamps (assuming the minimum wage would be indexed for inflation as\nPresident Clinton proposed during the campaign). And the proposal substantially expands the\nEITC adjustment for family size.\nThe EITC proposal accomplishes other goals as well. It substantially simplifies the\nEITC so that families will find the credit easier to apply for and so that both tax filers and the\nIRS can handle the credit more readily without making mistakes. And, the proposal\nestablishes a new component of a few hundred dollars a year for very poor workers without\nchildren. This new credit, limited to workers with incomes below $9,000, is designed to\nshield them from the effects of the energy tax.\nWhen fully in effect, the Clinton proposal would expand the EITC more than $7\nbillion a year.\n2. Empowerment Zones\nThe House approved $5.2 billion for tax incentives in 10 Empowerment Zones and\n100 Enterprise Neighborhoods in urban and rural communities. The types of tax incentives\nrange from a wage tax credit and a targeted jobs tax credit for the ten large zones to a tax-\nexempt bond facility for all 110 zones. $1 billion in funds would be made available for\ncommunity policing and other programs for all 110 zones. An additional $4 billion in\nexisting program funds would be made available for targeted programs in zones. Finally, and\nthe legislation would create an Enterprise Board which would be authorized to waive\nprovisions of Federal law or regulation adminstered by the Secretaries of HUD, Agriculture,\nHHS, Labor, or Education.\nThe Senate Finance Committee will be reviewing the Empowerment Zone proposal as\npart of Budget Reconciliation. The spending and waiver portions of the bill are being held up\nuntil we can resolve some policy difference with the hill. We have been working closely\nwith Senator Mitchell's staff and the Senate Banking Committee on developing an acceptable\nproposal as well as a strategy for passage of the legislation. Unfortunately, the House\nAppropriations Committee did not reserve funding for the Empowerment Zone proposal for\nFY94. We are working to rectify this in the Senate.\n3. Community Policing\nThe FY93 Supplemental Appropriations bill includes $200 million for community\npolicing. That bill has passed the full House and was approved in committee in the Senate.\nThe Administration budget included $250 million in both FY93 and FY94 for\ncommunity policing. The House Appropriations subcommittee refused to appropriate the\nFY94 money because Congress has not yet passed the authorization language the\nAdministration submitted as part of our Empowerment Zone proposal.\nSen. Biden and Rep. Brooks are near agreement on a crime bill that will include an\nAdministration-backed community policing title, which would provide $ over XX years to\nput $\nnew police on the street. HUD, Education, National Service, and a DoD/DoL\nTroops-to-Cops initiative will provide the balance of police officers to meet the 100,000\ncops pledge.\n4. Community Development Banks and CRA Reform\nThe Administration will submit legislation, perhaps as soon as next week, to create the\nCommunity Banking and Credit Fund (the \"Fund\"), whose purpose is to establish a network\nof Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI). This legislation would authorize\nover the next four years $382 million for capital investments or technical assistance in CDFIs.\nA whole range of CDFIs could qualify for assistance, including community development\nbanks, community development credit unions, microenterprise loan funds, revolving loan\nfunds, and community development corporations.\nThe final draft of this legislation will be ready at the end of this week. In the House,\nthe Appropriations Committee did not set aside the $60 million for FY94, so we will have to\nget our funding for the program in the Senate, and work to ensure it makes it through\nconference.\nThe Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the other banking regulators will\nalso be announcing shortly, at the President's request, that they will begin a process of reform\nof the Community Reinvenstment Act (CRA). The reform will include moving CRA from\npaperwork to performance by establishing a more quantifiable CRA standard.\n5. Welfare Reform\nOn Friday, June 11, the Administration will put out a press release with the names of\nthe interagency working group on welfare reform. Most members of the Domestic Policy\nCouncil have representatives on the working group. The goal is to produce a plan late this\nyear.\nMeanwhile, state and local officials have formed an advisory group that should submit\nits recommendations to us by late August.\nFile:\nDPC\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nCC: Prog. Staff - FYI\nWASHINGTON\nMay 20, 1993\nMagaziner\ng\nReed\nWay\nCerda\nMEMORANDUM FOR DOMESTIC POLICY COUNCIL\nHeenan\nFROM:\nCarol H. Rasco, Assistant to the President for\nMargherio\nSampson\nDomestic Policy\nSchmidt\nSUBJECT:\nCouncil Meeting\nStrong\nWalden\nWeinstein\nThis memo shall serve as notification of a meeting of the\nDomestic Policy Council on Wednesday, June 9, 1993 at 10:00 a.m.\nin the Roosevelt Room of the White House.\nI have attached for you a listing of the current membership of\nthe Domestic Policy Council. I have attempted in the opening\nmonths of this administration to schedule a personal appointment\nwith most of you in your office and will continue in that effort.\nI hope in the meantime that each of you will always feel free to\ncontact me on policy issues you feel need to be considered and/or\nbrought to the attention of the White House.\nIn establishing the agenda for the June 9 meeting, I am\nrequesting that you share with me any items you would like to\nhave considered for the agenda. Please feel free to call me at\n456-2216; my assistant Rosalyn Kelly will be glad to facilitate\nour conversation if I am not there when you call. You should\nalso feel free to mail/messenger/fax me a note (fax: 456-2878).\nI will distribute an agenda for the meeting to each of you by the\nclose of business Friday, June 4, 1993. It would be helpful to\nhave confirmation of your attendance by that time on Friday, June\n4.\nI look forward to seeing each of you on June 9. Thank you.\nCurrently proposed membership of the Domestic Policy Council:\nPresident\nVice-President\nHHS\nJustice\nLabor\nVeterans\nInterior\nEducation\nHUD\nAgriculture\nTransportation\nCommerce\nEnergy\nEPA\nOMB\nCEA\nAssistant to the President for Domestic Policy\nAssistant to the President for Economic Policy\nAssistant to the President and Director of the Office National\nService\nDrug Director\nAIDS Policy Coordinator\nSuch other officials of executive departments and agencies as the\nPresident may from time to time, designate."
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