§ 3.77.020. Membership and appointment.

A.

The CHCB shall consist of eleven members.

B.

In the case of the initial membership of the CHCB, the director of health services, or his designee, shall nominate qualified individuals to serve on the CHCB for appointment by the board of supervisors.

C.

Except in the case of the initial membership of the CHCB, the CHCB shall nominate qualified individuals to fill each vacancy. The names of these nominees shall be transmitted to the board of supervisors no later than sixty days prior to the expiration of the current appointments, or as soon as possible for any vacancy resulting from any reason other than the expiration of a term.

D.

Should the board of supervisors not appoint one or more of the individuals nominated, the CHCB, or in the case of the initial membership the director of health services, shall submit an alternative nomination to the board of supervisors.

E.

Most members of the CHCB shall be residents of or work in the geographic area served by one of the clinics or comprehensive health centers which are part of the county FQHC.

F.

No less than six of the members shall be individuals who are, at the time of their nomination, being served by the county FQHC ("user members"). In making the nominations and appointments, the nominating body and the board of supervisors will assure that the user members, as a group, are representative of the clinics' user population in terms of attributes such as ethnicity, race, gender, age and economic status.

G.

The remaining members shall be individuals who are representative of the community served by the county FQHC and who possess expertise in community affairs, finance and banking, legal affairs, unions, and other commercial and business concerns, or that possess other skills or expertise that are likely to be beneficial to the CHCB, and who have provided leadership in the community ("nonuser members"). No more than half of the nonuser members may receive more than ten percent of their annual income from the health care industry.

H.

No member of the CHCB shall be an employee or an immediate family member of a person employed at the county FQHC.

(Ord. 2004-0071 § 1 (part), 2004)