46.282(3)(a)3. 3. Advise the department regarding applications for initial certification or certification renewal of care management organizations in the area of the local long-term care council, including providing recommendations for organizations applying for certification or recertification, and assist the department in reviewing and evaluating the applications.

46.282(3)(a)4. 4. Receive information about and monitor complaints from persons served by the care management organization in the area concerning whether the numbers of providers of long-term care services used by the care management organization are sufficient to ensure convenient and desirable consumer choice and provide recommendations under subd. 3. to the department about this issue.

46.282(3)(a)5. 5. Review initial plans and existing provider networks of any care management organization in the area to assist the care management organization in developing a network of service providers that includes a sufficient number of accessible, convenient and desirable services.

46.282(3)(a)6. 6. Advise care management organizations about whether to offer optional acute and primary health care services and, if so, how these benefits should be offered.

46.282(3)(a)7. 7. Review the utilization of various types of long-term care services by care management organizations in the area.

46.282(3)(a)9. 9. Identify gaps in services, living arrangements and community resources and develop strategies to build local capacity to serve older persons and persons with physical or developmental disabilities, especially those with long-term care needs.

46.282(3)(a)10. 10. Perform long-range planning on policy for older persons and persons with physical or developmental disabilities.

46.282(3)(a)11. 11. Annually review interagency agreements between a resource center and care management organization or organizations and make recommendations, as appropriate, on the interaction between the resource center and the care management organization or organizations to assure coordination between or among them.

46.282(3)(a)12. 12. Annually review the number and types of complaints and grievances about the long-term care system by persons who receive or may receive care under the system, to determine if a need exists for system changes, and recommend system or other changes if appropriate.

46.282(3)(a)13. 13. Identify potential new sources of community resources and funding for needed services for older persons and persons with physical or developmental disabilities.

46.282(3)(a)14. 14. Support long-term care system improvements to improve services to older persons and persons with physical or developmental disabilities and their families.

46.282(3)(a)15. 15. Annually report to the department and, before July 1, 2001, to the long-term care council concerning significant achievements and problems in the local long-term care system.

46.282(3)(b) (b) A local long-term care council may, within the local long-term care council's area, assume the duties of the county long-term community support planning committee as specified under s. 46.27 (4).

46.283(1)(a)(a) After considering recommendations of the local long-term care council under s. 46.282 (3) (a) 1., a county board of supervisors and, in a county with a county executive or a county administrator, the county executive or county administrator, may decide all of the following:

46.283(1)(a)1. 1. Whether to authorize one or more county departments under s. 46.21, 46.215, 46.22 or 46.23 or an aging unit under s. 46.82 (1) (a) 1. or 2. to apply to the department for a contract to operate a resource center and, if so, which to authorize and what client group to serve.

46.283(1)(a)2. 2. Whether to create a family care district to apply to the department for a contract to operate a resource center.

46.283(1)(b) (b) After considering recommendations of the local long-term care council under s. 46.282 (3) (a) 1., the governing body of a tribe or band or of the Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council, Inc., may decide whether to authorize a tribal agency to apply to the department for a contract to operate a resource center for tribal members and, if so, which client group to serve.

46.283(1)(c) (c) Under the requirements of par. (a), a county board of supervisors may decide to apply to the department for a contract to operate a multicounty resource center in conjunction with the county board or boards of one or more other counties or a county-tribal resource center in conjunction with the governing body of a tribe or band or the Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council, Inc.

46.283(1)(d) (d) Under the requirements of par. (b), the governing body of a tribe or band may decide to apply to the department for a contract to operate a resource center in conjunction with the governing body or governing bodies of one or more other tribes or bands or the Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council, Inc., or with a county board of supervisors.

46.283(2)(a)(a) Before July 1, 2001, the department may contract only with a county, a family care district, the governing body of a tribe or band or the Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council, Inc., or 2 or more of these entities under a joint application, to operate a resource center.

46.283(2)(b) (b) After June 30, 2001, the department shall contract with the entities specified under s. 46.281 (1) (d) 1. and may, in addition to contracting with these entities and subject to approval of necessary funding, contract to operate a resource center with counties, family care districts, or the governing body of a tribe or band or the Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council, Inc., under a joint application of any of these, or with a private nonprofit organization if the department determines that the organization has no significant connection to an entity that operates a care management organization and if any of the following applies:

46.283(2)(b)2. 2. A county agency or a family care district applies for a contract but fails to meet the standards specified in sub. (3).

46.283(3) (3) Standards for operation. The department shall assure that at least all of the following are available to a person who contacts a resource center for service: