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(A) Composition.
(1) There shall be in the city a Youth Services Commission consisting of the Superintendent of Schools, the Commissioner of Health and Hospitals, the Police Commissioner, the Commissioner of Parks and Recreation, the Director of the Community School program and the Director of the Mayor’s Office of Job and Community Services, ex officio or their respective designees, the Chair of the Boston City Council Special Committee on Youth Services, ex officio, and eight members appointed by the Mayor each for a term expiring on the first Monday of the January following the next biennial municipal election at which a Mayor is elected. In making appointments to the Commission, the Mayor shall appoint persons with demonstrated experience in counseling, advising or employing youth; experience as a supervisor or director of a youth program or Agency in the city; experience in traditional or alternative educational programs for youth; or experience in the delivery of health or drug abuse prevention services to children or adolescents. At least one of the Mayor’s appointees to the commission shall be a young person between the ages of fifteen (16) and 19. At least one of the Mayor’s appointees to the Commission shall be a parent of a child or children under age 18. At least one of the Mayor’s appointees shall be a Boston Housing Authority tenant.
(2) The Mayor shall designate one member of the Commission as Chair. All members shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for expenses necessarily incurred in the performance of their duties.
(B) Powers and duties. The Commission shall evaluate the delivery of youth services in Boston; shall advise the Mayor and the Boston City Council on ways to expand and coordinate counseling, employment, health, educational and recreational programs for the youth in Boston and to minimize drug abuse and violence among children and adolescents; shall work to coordinate the delivery of youth services by the various Departments and Agencies of the city; shall work to coordinate the delivery of youth services in Boston by other governmental and private Agencies; shall work to coordinate and encourage private sponsorship and investment in youth programs in Boston and shall direct and oversee the annual compilation and publication of a comprehensive directory of youth services in Boston.
(CBC 1985 12-6.1; Ord. 1989 c. 10 §§ 1, 2)
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