(a) The law, resolution, or executive order establishing or continuing any board, committee, commission, or task force should specify the term of the group's existence. If no term is specified, then the board, committee, commission, or task force continues until terminated. The County Executive should monitor the expiration date of those boards, committees, commissions, and task forces that the County Executive appoints. The County Council should monitor the expiration date of those boards, committees, commissions, and task forces that the County Council appoints.
(b) Any new board, committee, commission, or task force should have from 5 to 15 voting members.
(c) Evaluation and Review Board Committee.
(1) The County Executive must appoint and convene at least every 6 years, subject to confirmation by the Council, a citizens review committee comprised of at least 11 members.
(2) The Committee must review the group system and each then-existing board, committee, commission, and task force and report to the Executive and Council its recommendations for changes in individual boards, committees, commissions, and task forces and the group system as a whole. The Committee must submit an interim report to the Executive and Council within 6 months of appointment and submit a final report within 12 months of appointment.
(3) The County Executive must designate the review committee’s chair and vice-chair. (1979 L.M.C., ch. 22, § 1; 1984 L.M.C., ch. 37, § 1; FY 1991 L.M.C., ch. 9, § 1; 1997 L.M.C., ch. 4, § 1; , § 1; , § 1; , § 1.)
Editor's note—2011 L.M.C., ch. 21, §§ 2 and 3, state:
Sec. 2. Contents of Committee Evaluation and Review Board Report. As part of its report, the first Committee Evaluation and Review Board appointed after November 8, 2011 must:
(a) develop scenarios for reduction of County staff time used to support the committees; and
(b) include a discussion of advisory board member workload.
Sec. 3. Continuation of certain board, committees, and commissions:
(a) Purpose. The County has many boards, committees, and commissions that provide a valuable service to the County with the work they perform. These boards, committees, and commissions require significant personnel and operating costs to function. In Fiscal Year 2011, the County spent an approximate $1.4 million on personnel and operating costs to support the County’s boards, committees, and commissions. While these boards, committees, and commissions provide a valuable service, there may be opportunities for consolidation.
(1) In this section, the following words have the meanings indicated:
Advisory board means the following boards, committees, and commissions: Advisory Committees on Consumer Protection, Agricultural Advisory Committee, Airpark Liaison Committee, Cable and Communications Advisory Committee, Commission for Women, Commission on Aging, Commission on Child Care, Commission on Children and Youth, Commission on Health, Commission on Juvenile Justice, Commission on People with Disabilities, Commission on Veterans Affairs, Committee for Ethnic Affairs, Committee on Hate/Violence, County- wide Recreation Advisory Board, Criminal Justice Coordinating Commission, Department of Permitting Services Advisory Committee, Dickerson Area Facilities Implementation Group, Domestic Violence Coordinating Council, Down County Recreation Advisory Board, East County Citizens Advisory Board, East County Recreation Advisory Board, Energy and Air Quality Advisory Committee, Fire and Emergency Services Commission, Forest Conservation Advisory Committee, Friendship Heights TMD Advisory Committee, Library Board, Mental Health Advisory Committee, Mid-County Citizens Advisory Board, Mid-County Recreation Advisory Board, Montgomery Cares Program Advisory Board, Noise Control Advisory Board, Pedestrian and Traffic Safety Advisory Committee, Rustic Roads Advisory Committee, Silver Spring Citizens Advisory Board, Silver Spring Transportation Management District Advisory Committee, Silver Spring Urban District Advisory Committee, Solid Waste Advisory Committee, Sustainability Working Group, Taxicab Services Advisory Committee, Technology Investment Fund Loan/Grant Committee, Upcounty Citizens Advisory Board, Upcounty Recreation Advisory Board, Victim Services Advisory Board, Water Quality Advisory Group, Western Montgomery County Citizens Advisory Board, Wheaton Urban District Advisory Committee.
Committee Evaluation and Review Board means the Board appointed under § 2-146.
(2) Each advisory board must indicate to the Committee Evaluation and Review Board, within 60 days after the Committee Evaluation and Review Board is appointed, if the advisory board should continue. Each advisory board that so indicates must provide the Committee Evaluation and Review Board with the following:
(A) a description of the work the advisory board does;
(B) justification for why the advisory board should be continued;
(C) a list of accomplishments from the prior 2 years, including any direct service provided by volunteers to residents;
(D) a discussion of advisory board member workload;
(E) a 2-year work program; and
(F) an explanation of the amount of government resources, including County employee staff time, used and a plan to reduce the use of those resources.
(3) In addition to the duties in § 2-146, as part of its report, the first Committee Evaluation and Review Board appointed after November 8, 2011 must review each advisory board that requests continuation under subsection (b)(2) and recommend to the Council whether the advisory board should continue.
1984 L.M.C., ch. 37, § 2 provides as follows: “If prior to the enactment of this act a committee, board, or commission expired under the terms of section 2-146 of the Montgomery County Code, then the county council hereby retroactively reestablishes such committees, boards, or commissions and reconfirms all appointments made to such bodies from the date of such expirations. All actions taken by such committees, boards or commissions during such periods of expiration shall have the same force and effect as if such expirations had not occurred.”
