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• RESOLUTION TO ESTABLISH A REGIONAL DISABILITY SERVICE BOARD WHEREAS, the Virginia General Assembly has set forth a requirement that local governments establish Disability Services Boards, and WHEREAS, the Disability Services Board may be a local or regional board, and WHEREAS, the City of Charlottesville has determined a regional Disability Services Board will serve the needs of the locality and its citizens, NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Charlottesville agrees to join the signatories of this resolution in establishing a regional Disability Services Board, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City of Charlottesville requests the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission to be the sponsor of the regional Disability Services Board and provide staff assistance to such a board, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Disability Services Board is to • fulfill the following duties and responsibility as set forth in Virginia Code §51.5-48: Assess the local service needs and advise the appropriate state and local agencies serving persons with physical and sensory disability of their findings; Develop and make available for public comment a report with a six-year projection of local service needs and priorities for persons with physical and sensory disability in accordance with state guidelines. The first report shall be submitted by June 1, 1993; Obtain input from local public and private service providers and utilize such information in the development of the report; Review and update the report biennially; Serve as a catalyst for the development of public and private funding sources; Develop request to the rehabilitative services incentive fund when local funding for match is identified; Administer the incentive funds, if received, through a designated fiscal agent in accordance with an approved • expenditure plan as specified within the grant; Exchange information with other DSBs, and local organizations