People ex rel. L.M.

Judge BRIGGS

dissenting.

The trial court’s order requiring foster care payment by the El Paso County Department of Social Services (county department) to an uncertified foster care provider was contrary to the statutory scheme for allocating scarce resources, improperly preempted the authority of the Colorado Department of Human Services (the department) to enact regulations implementing the statutory scheme, and interfered with the county department in the exercise of powers properly within its own sphere. It further required an expenditure of funds not expressly appropriated or otherwise…