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AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE • ALBEMARLE COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AND THE CHARLOTTESVILLE CITY COUNCIL ON THE COMMISSION ON CHILDREN AND FAMILIES The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors (the "County') and the Charlottesville City Council (the "City') agree to join together to form the Commission on Children and Families (the "Commission") whose sole responsibility shall be to plan, coordinate, monitor and evaluate a community wide system of children and family agencies. The intended goal of the Commission is to improve services to children, youth and families, to be accountable for the efficient use of public/private resources and to be responsive to the changing needs of the community. In doing so, we agree to the following: 1) With respect to the STRUCTURE OF THE COMMISSION, the City and the County agree that: a) The Commission shall consist of twenty-eight voting members. Eleven of the voting members shall be citizen representatives ("Citizen Members"): five appointed by the County, five appointed by the City and one jointly appointed private service provider. Of the eleven citizen members, at least one appointee from each jurisdiction must be a parent, and at least one appointee from each jurisdiction must be a youth under the age of eighteen years at the time his or her appointment takes effect. Fourteen of the voting members shall be as follows ("Agency Members'): the School Division Superintendent from both the City and the County; one • elected School Board member from both the City and the County; the Director of the Department of Social Services from both the City and the County; the Chief of Police from both the City and the County; the Director of Parks and Recreation from both the City and the County; the Director of the Sixteenth District Court Services Unit; the Director of the Thomas Jefferson Health District; the Director of Region Ten Community Services Board; a representative of the University of Virginia; an Albemarle Assistant County Executive; a Charlottesville Assistant City Manager; and the President of the United Way — Thomas Jefferson Area. b) Terms of Appointment. Each Citizen Member of the Commission shall be appointed for a term that shall expire three years from the first day of July of the year of appointment, except the youth Citizen Members shall be appointed for a term that shall expire one year from the first day of July of the year of appointment. With the exception of the private service provider representative, each Citizen Member shall be eligible for reappointment to one additional term of the same length as the initial appointment. The private service provider shall not be eligible for reappointment to a second term. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Citizen Member, including the private service provider, who is initially appointed to fill a vacancy, may serve an additional successive term. Appointment shall be staggered for continuity. Each Agency Member of the Commission shall serve for as long as they hold their public office or until replaced by the appointing authority. 0