Item EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY VISTA Average First Year Per Capita Cost - Assigned Volunteer (Six week training period) Amount Living Allowance ($5 per day, room, board $1,600 and laundry) Average First Year Per Capita Cost Referred Volunteer (training period only) Personal Allowance ($1.50 per day six weeks) $ 63 EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT Activity 7. General Direction and Administration $5,500,000 The Office of Economic Opportunity will not only manage the particular programs of the new agency, but will have a basic responsibility for coordinating existing and expanded programs of other agencies into one, well-organized attack on the source of poverty. Small staff units will be charged with the responsibility of reviewing and coordinating the work of those agencies that are carrying out the programs that have been delegated to various agencies. There will be a small staff responsible for liaison with the many public and private institutions that will be concerned with various aspects of the war on poverty, both as conducted by the Office of Economic Opportunity and as may be carried on by participating institutions or political jurisdictions. A careful control will be maintained over the Economic Opportunity Program in its entirety. This will involve close coordination among the various elements, units both of OEO and the cooperating agencies and continuous programs of research in the nature of poverty, the success of the program in overcoming poverty and in the proposals for future action. Both in the Washington Headquarters and in the six Regional Offices proposed, administrative and management services will be provided from a single group for all of the programs of the agency. These centralized services will include all personnel services for employees but not the similar functions required for VISTA Volunteers or Job Corps enrollees. Fiscal services will be provided centrally for everything except payrolling of the Job Corps enrollees Contracting will be done by the central staff, public information will be under direction of a central staff but there will be some individuals assigned to those programs requiring a great deal of public contact. Legal services will be provided by an Office of General Counsel. Control will be maintained centrally on funds used for procurement, travel, printing and similar items. The Office of Economic Opportunity through the contract medium will engage the best talent available to donduct research into the causes of poverty, the best and most economical means of attacking the causes and the results achieved by the methods of attack employed. |