§ 9505 - General powers and duties - Vermont Statutes

§ 9505. General powers and duties

The board shall have all the powers necessary and convenient to carry out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of this section, and shall:

(1) establish jointly with the department of health the selection criteria for community grants and review and recommend the grants to be funded;

(2) select, upon the advice of the commissioner, a contractor responsible for countermarketing activities. The department shall pay the fees and costs of any such contractor. The board and commissioner shall jointly approve any final countermarketing campaign;

(3) review and advise the department selection criteria for grantees and contracts funded by the program in conformity with the goals established by the department and board;

(4) establish jointly with the department an application process, criteria, and components for an independent evaluation. The board shall select an independent contractor to perform an independent evaluation, and oversee the independent contractor's evaluation of the tobacco prevention, treatment and control program;

(5) review and make recommendations to the overall plan and any memorandum of understanding developed jointly by the department of health and department of education for school-based programs funded through the tobacco program fund;

(6) review and make recommendations to enforcement activities administered by the department of liquor control in accordance with the provisions of this chapter;

(7) review and advise any state agency, on applications for funds contributed from any outside sources that are designated for purposes of reducing tobacco use;

(8) in collaboration with the agency and department, annually organize a minimum of two public meetings by September 15 of each year, to receive public input and advice for setting program priorities and establishing an annual program budget;

(9) conduct jointly with the secretary a review of the department's proposed annual budget for the program, including funds contributed from any outside sources that are designated for purposes of reducing tobacco use, and submit independent recommendations to the governor, joint fiscal committee and committee on appropriations of the house of representatives and the senate by October 1 of each year;

(10) propose to the department strategies for program coordination and collaboration with other state agencies, nonprofit organizations dedicated to anti-tobacco activities, health care providers and organizations, community and school groups and other nonprofit organizations;

(11) adopt a conflict of interest policy within 30 days of the appointment of the full board and include this policy in the annual report required under this chapter. (Added 1999, No. 152 (Adj. Sess.), § 271, eff. May 29, 2000.)