(A) There is hereby continued by action of Metro Government, and designated pursuant to KRS 273.435, the Louisville and Jefferson County community action agency as a joint corporate agency of the Metro Government to plan and coordinate programs designed to combat problems of poverty and seek the elimination of conditions of poverty as they affect the inhabitants of Jefferson County.
(B) The general purpose of the agency is to serve as a corporation under KRS 273.410(2), in an exclusively charitable and educational capacity, to foster and promote planning services and developmental efforts for the mobilization and utilization of resources, both public and private, in Jefferson County, for a coordinated remedial attack on conditions of poverty affecting the inhabitants of Jefferson County; to stimulate the provision of services and other activities toward developing employment and economic opportunities, improving human performance, individual and group motivation, productivity, and bettering conditions under which people live, learn, and work; to solicit, contract for, receive, administer, and disburse any funds, grants, bequests, devises, and other resources for the execution and implementation of specific or general problems in carrying out its purposes, and particularly for grants under Title 42 U.S.C. Chapter 106; and to do any and all lawful acts and to engage in any and all lawful activities, either alone or in conjunction or cooperation with other persons, agencies, governmental authorities, institutions, and organizations as may be necessary or appropriate in furthering one or more of such purposes.
(1999 Lou. Code, § 35.052) (Lou. Ord. No. 109-1975, effective 7-1-1975; Lou. Am. Ord. No. 69-1990, passed 3-15-1990; Lou. Metro Am. Ord. No. 119-2007, approved 7-2-2007; Lou. Metro Am. Ord. No. 10-2021, approved 2-18-2021)