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(2) Need for service. Appropriate goals and objectives in response to the advertisement of funding availability. Soundness of methodology. The goal and objectives, description of services with timeline and documented coordination with other service providers. (4) Evaluation. The program's process and outcome objectives, data collection system and evaluation design. Cost effectiveness. The proportion of budget applied to direct services, funds from other sources, funds requested, current and projected long range efficiency. (6) Children and families served. The extent to which the application addresses services to meet identified needs of the target population. Neighborhood -based initiatives. The extent and degree to which the application focuses on a local area or neighborhood. (8) Response to a specified strategy. The applicant's identification of and appropriate response to a specified primary strategy. Application. The relative completeness, clarity and conciseness of the response to all required items in the funding announcement and application. (c) Funding recommendation. Recommendations for funding, once approved by the children's services advisory board, will be presented to the board of county commissioners by the chairman of the children's services advisory board or his/her designee. This report shall be written or verbal, as requested by the board of county commissioners, presented no later than September 30 of each year, which date or dates shall be established in the announcement provided for in subsection (a) above. The recommendation will include a description of current children's services in Indian River County; an assessment of how current services are fulfilling the needs of the children in Indian River County; the advisory board's analysis and conclusions with respect to compliance with the requirement that the dedicated millage be used to fund additional services and programs and not to replace or supplant existing funding; and a recommended budget and funding levels for children's services for the next fiscal year. (d) Program follow-up. The Children's Trust advisory board or its designee shall review and make recommendations pertaining to the funding application, and request for proposals, the funding agreements and the development of the monitoring and evaluation procedure which shall be prepared by the department. The children's services advisory board shall be apprised of all reports as a result of monitoring programs implemented by the department pursuant to this article. (3) (5) (7) (9) Sec. 2-2-259. - Final recommendations and final determinations. The commission shall, during the hearings and proceedings required for adoption of the county's annual budget, make final determinations with respect to the allocation of the dedicated millage. Any additional programs funded after adoption of the county's budget shall be approved only after notice and public hearing conducted in the manner required for the adoption of county's ordinances. The specific allocation of funds authorized by inclusion in the county's official budget adopted prior to the commencement of each fiscal year or any subsequent amendment to the budget shall not establish a right, entitlement or benefit to any individual or agency. Disbursement of the dedicated millage shall be only in accordance with agreements, rules and procedures as may be adopted and otherwise authorized by the county. 114