The duties of the Mental Health Advisory Committee are:
(a) monitor, review, and evaluate the allocation and adequacy of publicly-funded mental health services within the County through means such as conducting or participating in site visits;
(b) determine the needs of the County mental health system, including quality of services, gaps in the system, and interagency coordination;
(c) participate in the development of the local mental health plan and local mental health budget;
(d) prepare an annual report which must include:
(1) a description of the progress of the County mental health system;
(2) recommendations on actions needed to improve the system;
(3) recommendations on priorities for allocation of funds; and
(4) recommendations on appropriate allocation of funds consistent with established priorities and available funds;
(e) disseminate the annual report to the:
(1) Director of the Department of Health and Human Services;
(4) State Mental Hygiene Administration’s Regional Mental Health Director;
(5) Director of Mental Hygiene Administration;
(6) Secretary of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; and
(7) Maryland Advisory Council on Mental Hygiene; and
(f) review and comment on the annual mental health plan and preliminary budget for the State mental health grant to the County; and
(g) review and comment on the annual budget for mental health services of the Department of Health and Human Services. (1976 L.M.C., ch. 32, § 1; 1979 L.M.C., ch. 18, § 4; FY 1991 L.M.C., ch. 22, § 1; 1992 L.M.C., ch. 23, § 1; 1995 L.M.C., ch. 13, § 1.)
Editor’s note—1995 L.M.C., ch. 13, § 5, reads as follows: “Sec. 5. A regulation that implements a function assigned to the Department of Health and Human Services by 1995 L.M.C., ch. 13, continues in effect but is amended to the extent necessary to provide that the regulation is administered by the Director of the Department of Health and Human Services.”
