Agenda - 05-02-2017-11-a - Adult Care Home Community Advisory Committee

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25 APPROVED 11/8/2012 limited to members of the subcommittee which serves that home. A majority of the committee or subcommittee members shall be present to enter the facility at other hours. vii. Before entering any adult care home, the committee or members of the committee shall identify themselves to the person present at the facility who is in charge of the facility at that time. 8. The Committee shall prepare reports as required by the Department of Health and Human Services containing an appraisal of the problems of adult care homes facilities as well as issues affecting long-term care in general. Copies of the report shall be sent to the Board of County Commissioners, Orange County Department of Social Services and the Division of Aging. SECTION III: MEMBERSHIP A. Authority 1. North Carolina General Statute § 153A-76 grants boards of county commissioners the authority to establish advisory boards and to appoint members to and remove members from those advisory boards. In acting on this authority the Orange County Board of Commissioners hereby establishes certain general conditions to which applicants and members of advisory boards should conform. 2. North Carolina General Statute § 131D-31(b) provides the establishment, appointment of committees and the number of members on a committee. B. Composition 1. The Committee shall be composed of the following: a. If the County has one, two, or three adult care homes with 10 or more beds, the Committee shall have five members; or b. If the County has four or more adult care homes with 10 or more beds, the Committee shall have one additional member for each adult care home with 10 or more beds in excess of three, and may have up to five additional members at the discretion of the Board of County Commissioners, not to exceed a maximum of 25 members. i. If the County has four or more adult care homes with 10 or more beds, the Committee shall establish a subcommittee of no more than five members and no fewer than three members from the committee for each adult care home in the county. ii. Each member must serve on at least one subcommittee. c. If the County has no adult care homes with 10 or more beds, the Committee shall have five members. 2. The Committee must have, regardless of the number of members, at least one member involved in the area of mental retardation. 3. Of the total number of members, a minority (not less than one-third, but as close to one-third as possible) shall be chosen from among persons nominated by a majority of the chief administrators of adult care homes in the County. If the adult care home administrators fail to make a nomination within 45 days after written notification has been sent to them requesting a nomination, these appointments may be made without nominations. 4. Each member must be a resident of Orange County. 5. No person or immediate family member of a person with a financial interest in a home served by the Committee, or employee or governing board member of a home served by the Committee, or immediate family member of a resident in a home served by the Committee may be a member of that Committee.