The necessary expenses of such officers and employees of the state, county, and municipal boards, benevolent and correctional institutions, officials responsible for the administration of public funds used for the relief and maintenance of the poor, officials authorized to administer laws on community control sanctions, and members of the boards of county visitors as are invited by the department of job and family services to the conferences provided for in section 5101.44 of the Revised Code, shall be paid from any fund available for their respective offices, boards, and institutions, provided they first procure a certificate from the director of job and family services as evidence that they were invited to and were in attendance at the sessions of such conferences.
As used in this section, "community control sanction" has the same meaning as in section 2929.01 of the Revised Code.