The commissioner and the department of family and support services shall assume all rights, powers, duties, obligations and responsibilities of the commissioners and departments of senior services, human services, children and youth services, mayor's office on domestic violence, those aspects of the department of public health relating to domestic violence, including any grants or subgrants related thereto, those aspects of the department of housing relating to the plan to end homelessness, and those aspects of the mayor's office of workforce development not assumed by the department of community development, relating to training, including:
(a) All personnel, books, records, property and funds;
(b) The administration of any federal, state, local or private grant or loan programs, except to the extent prohibited by the grantor or grant agreement; and
(c) The rights and duties under existing contracts, appropriations, grant agreements, redevelopment agreements, leases, indentures or other agreements or ordinances. Acting directly or through a designee, the commissioner also assumes the rights and duties formerly exercised by the department of senior services as area agency on aging 12 (planning and service area 12), as designated by the Illinois Department on Aging, for the purpose of planning and coordinating services and programs for older people in the City.
All rules or regulations issued by the commissioners of senior services, human services, children and youth services, mayor's office on domestic violence, and all rules and regulations issued by the commissioner of housing relating to the plan to end homelessness and all rules and regulations issued by the commissioner of the mayor's office of workforce development relating to training, in effect as of the effective date of this chapter shall remain in effect until amended or repealed by the commissioner of family and support services.
The commissioner and the department of family and support services shall assume all rights, powers, duties, obligations and responsibilities of the commissioner and department of community development that had been transferred from the former mayor's office of workforce development to the department of community development pursuant to Section 2-45-050 of this Code, other than such powers that are specifically related to community development. All such personnel, books, records, property and funds relating to such transferred powers are transferred from the department of community development to the department of family and support services. The commissioner of family and support services shall succeed the commissioner of community development in the administration of any federal, state, local or private grant or loan programs, and in any federal, state, local or private funding, relating to such transferred powers. The commissioner of family and support services shall succeed to the rights and duties of the commissioner of community development under existing contracts, grant agreements, redevelopment agreements, leases, indentures or other agreements or ordinances relating to such transferred powers. All rules or regulations issued by the commissioner of community development relating to such transferred powers shall remain in effect until amended or repealed by the commissioner of family and support services.
(Added Coun. J. 11-19-08, p. 47220, Art. VI, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 12-2-09, p. 78837, Art. 3, § 1)