§ 9-33-202 - Common Ground Program Committee -- Members. - Arkansas Statutes

9-33-202. Common Ground Program Committee -- Members.

(a) The Common Ground Program and the Common Ground Program Committee shall work in collaboration with the Governor's Partnership Council for Children and Families in coordinating grants, programs, and services. The committee shall be composed of twenty-three (23) members to serve at the pleasure of the Governor with (20) appointed by the Governor as follows:

(1) One (1) member shall be a state Senator;

(2) One (1) member shall be a state Representative;

(3) Two (2) members shall be representatives of the Governor's Youth Commission to be selected by the Governor from a list of three (3) names per position submitted by the Governor's Youth Commission or if the Governor's Youth Commission fails to submit the names or ceases to exist, two (2) youth member representatives;

(4) Two (2) representatives of the Governor's Partnership Council for Children and Families with at least one (1) of the representatives being chosen from the council's membership at large;

(5) Fourteen (14) members shall be culturally diverse representatives of the statewide community at large, and may include parents, educators, representatives of religious organizations, health care professionals, youth service providers, law enforcement officers, representatives of business, and those working in the juvenile justice system; and

(6) The three (3) directors of the Department of Health, the Department of Human Services, and the Department of Education, or their respective designees, shall be members of the committee.

(b) Members of the committee shall serve without compensation, but may, to the extent moneys are appropriated therefor and subject to reasonable limitations established by the Department of Finance and Administration, be reimbursed for actual reasonable expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties in accordance with rates and standards for reimbursement of state employees.