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requires a nine member board including the superintendent of <br />schools, a local school board member, the district administrator <br />of the Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services, and one <br />member of the Board of County Commissioners, the other five <br />members to be appointed by the Governor. He expressed concern <br />about overlapping with the DHRS and emphasized that the only <br />involvement the Board of County Commissioners ever has with the <br />Juvenile Welfare Board is to take a vote and say if we want to <br />have a referendum. Nowhere in the Bill is there a procedure to <br />set up how the monies would be used prior to going to the <br />referendum. Commissioner Wodtke wished to know how other <br />counties are approaching this issue, i.e., whether they just say <br />they will vote for the establishment of such a board or whether <br />they have a study committee to explain what services we have, <br />where the deficiency is, and where the monies might be used. <br />Mr. Mills commented on the change in Board set up, noting <br />that two of the positions on their Board are reserved for <br />juvenile court judges; however, they only have one such judge so <br />far. Also, the separation of powers issue arose; it was ques- <br />tinned whetfe-r ii was appropriate for a a judge to sit on a body <br />such as this; and that is how the district administrator of the <br />DHRS came to be substituted on that board. Mr. Mills continued <br />to discuss their relationship to HRS and the question of <br />allocation of resources and advised that they do fund some <br />programs in HRS, supplemental things which HRS does..not have the <br />money to do, but they make an effort to be sure that local tax <br />money does not replace HRS money and they focus the Board's <br />dollars on preventative type services. He further noted that <br />they are prohibited from allocating any dollars to programs under <br />the sole jurisdiction of schools, but they do work with the <br />schools under a joint contracting process on many programs. <br />Chairman Scurlock noted that Indian River County is very <br />strong on desire for local control. He doubted we could pass <br />this type of legislation in our community without a much more <br />23 91 rt <br />OCT 2 8 1986 BOOK 6 Fq <br />