5-4.3 Divisions Within Department.

   (A)   There shall be in the Department the following three Divisions:

      (1)   A Division of Information, Application and Distribution;

      (2)   A Division of Federal, State and Municipal Compliance; and

      (3)   A Division of Administration.

   (B)   The Division of Administration shall be under the direction, control and supervision of the Commissioner. Each of the other Divisions shall be under the direction, control and supervision of an Associate Commissioner.

   (C)   It shall be the duty of said Division of Information, Application and Distribution to serve as liaison between the city and the various federal Agencies providing funds to the city to inform such federal Agencies of the city’s need with respect to existing federal programs and assistance, to encourage the establishment of new sources of federal funding to aid the city, to provide Boston Municipal Agencies with all relevant federal funding information, to assist said Agencies in applying for such funding and to distribute such federal funds to all City Agencies which are funded to any extent by such funds. In the interest of efficiency in the implementation of such information, application and distribution functions, said Division shall maintain a Washington, D.C. Office to be under the direction, control and supervision of the Associate Commissioner for the Division of Information, Application and Distribution.

   (D)   The Division of Administration shall contain all City Agencies which are funded to an extent of 50% or more by such federal funds. It shall be the duty of said Division to administer such subordinate Agencies within said Division and, in performing this function, to coordinate the activities and expenditure of all such subordinate Agencies within said Division.

   (E)   It shall be the duty of the Division of Federal, State and Municipal Compliance to monitor the expenditure of such funds by Municipal Agencies. In serving as monitor, said Division shall ensure that municipal Agencies receiving such federal funds comply with all commonwealth and federal laws, rules, regulations and funding guidelines and all other applicable laws, ordinances, rules and regulations.

(Ord. 1979 c. 21; CBC 1985 5-4.3)