(a)
Establishment and responsibilities. Except as provided in Section 44-4A
, the Interagency Coordinating Board for Community Use of Public Facilities must review and coordinate the activities conducted under this Article. The Board must: (1) review budget requests of the Director and make recommendations about the requests to the Chief Administrative Officer, County Executive and County Council;
(2) recommend fee schedules that the Council may adopt by resolution after receiving the recommendations of the Executive;
(3) review and propose modifications in major contracts and grants negotiated between the County and Montgomery County Public Schools under this Article;
(4) provide periodic evaluations, advice, and recommendations, and an annual report by March 1 of each year, to the Director, the Board of Education, the Executive, and the Council about implementation of this Article;
(5) adopt regulations necessary to implement this Article; and
(6) recommend how to resolve any interagency differences and problems in implementing this Article to the Executive, the Board of Education, the Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission, Montgomery College, or the Council, as appropriate, including recommendations to promote coordination between programs and activities conducted under this Article and related services and activities financed by the County government.
(b) Membership. The Board consists of voting members and nonvoting, ex officio members.
(1) The voting members are:
(A) the Chief Administrative Officer;
(B) the Superintendent of Schools;
(C) the President of Montgomery College;
(D) a member of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission designated by the Montgomery County members of the Commission;
(E) a Councilmember, the Executive Director of the Office of the County Council, or a senior staff member of the County Council, who represents the Council;
(F) one resident appointed by the Superintendent and confirmed by the Board of Education; and
(G) three residents appointed by the Executive and confirmed by the Council.
The Advisory Committee may recommend individuals to the Executive and the Superintendent for appointment as resident members of the Board.
(2) The nonvoting, ex officio members of the board are:
(A) a member of the Board of Education designated by the Board of Education;
(B) a person designated by the Montgomery County Association of Administrators and Principals to represent secondary school administrators and confirmed by the Council;
(C) a person designated by the Montgomery County Association of Administrators and Principals to represent elementary school administrators and confirmed by the Council.
(3) The Chief Administrative Officer, the Superintendent of Schools, the President of Montgomery College, and the Montgomery County member of the Maryland- National Capital Park and Planning Commission may each designate a senior staff member to serve in their absence as an alternate member of the Board.
(c) Officers. The Board must elect a Chair and Vice Chair to serve for a one-year term, and may reelect either or both officers.
(d) Terms. Members of the Board appointed under subsections (b)(1)(F) and (G) and (2)(B) and (C) must serve staggered four-year terms beginning on July 1 of the year when the term of the member's predecessor is scheduled to expire. A member continues to serve until the member's successor is appointed.
(e) Compensation. Members of the Board serve without compensation.
(f) Meetings. The Board must meet at least once every three months. The Board may be convened at any time, with appropriate advance notice, at the call of the chair or upon the request of the Chief Administrative Officer or the Superintendent.
(g) Attendance. Section 2-148(c) applies only to resident members of the Board. (1979 L.M.C., ch. 19, § 2; 1983 L.M.C., ch. 46, § 1; 1984 L.M.C., ch. 24, § 45; FY 1991 L.M.C., ch. 9, § 1; 1997 L.M.C., ch. 11, § 1; 1998 L.M.C., ch. 29, § 1; , § 1; , § 1; , § 6; v, §1.)
Editor's note—See County Attorney Opinion dated explaining that the interagency coordinating board membership provision in the Code does not conflict with the Charter appointment provision or with the State enabling law. See County Attorney Opinion dated explaining that the County cannot refuse access to facilities based on the fact that a group has a discriminatory membership policy.
1979 L.M.C., ch. 19, § 2 provides that this section, as well as all other provisions of this article, shall become operative by incorporation in an agreement executed among the County government, Board of Education and other public agencies.
