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RESOLUTION • Commission on Children and Families WHEREAS, the Charlottesville City Council is committed to improving services to children, youth and families in Charlottesville; and WHEREAS, the citizens of Charlottesville have a vested interest in strengthening families and developing positive attributes in their children and youth; and WHEREAS, the Charlottesville/Albemarle Children and Youth Commission was established in 1990 to serve as a comprehensive planning, coordinating and evaluation body for children and youth services for the City and the County; and WHEREAS, the Community Policy and Management Team was established in 1993 to serve the needs of troubled and at -risk youths and their families for the City and the County and to maximize the use of state and community resources; and WHEREAS, representatives of the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors and the Charlottesville Cty Council are recommending that the County join with the City to form a comprehensive planning, coordinating and evaluation body for children and family services composed of citizens and human service directors; • NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED 1. That the Mayor of the City of Charlottesville be authorized to execute an agreement with Albemarle County to establish a Commission on Children and Families (the "Commission") whose sole responsibility shall be to plan, coordinate, monitor and evaluate a community -wide system of all children and family agencies and programs. Such agreement shall contain substantially the same terms as the attached draft agreement and be in a form meeting the approval of the City and County Attorneys. 2. That the members of the Commission shall consist of seventeen (17) voting members: Nine of the members shall be citizen representatives, four appointed by the City, four appointed by the County and one jointly appointed service provider. Of the nine citizen members, at least one appointee from each jurisdiction must be a parent and one must be a youth. Seven members will be public agency administrators or their designees: two School Superintendents, two Department of Social Service Directors, one Juvenile Court Director, one Health Department Director, and one Community Service Board Director. One member will represent the University of Virginia. In addition to the seventeen members, three ex officio members will represent the City Manager's Office, the County Executive's Office and the United Way on the Commission. 3. That upon the execution of an agreement by the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County establishing the Commission, the current Children and Youth Commission shall be 40 dissolved.