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12-6.1   Youth Services Commission.
   (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)
12-7   DRUG ABUSE COORDINATING COUNCIL.
12-7.1   Composition of Board.
   (A)   There shall be in the city a Board, known as the Coordinating Council on Drug Abuse, consisting of the Corporation Counsel, the Commissioner of Health and Hospitals, the Penal Institutions Commissioner, the Police Commissioner and the Chair of the Youth Activities Commission, ex officiis, or their respective designees, and 16 persons 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 the appointments to be made by him or her, the Mayor shall give consideration to the appointment of persons associated with, or representative of, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, the Division of Food and Drugs in the commonwealth’s Department of Public Health, the probation Officers of the Municipal Court of the city, the Boston Juvenile Court and the other municipal and district courts in the city, the public and the nonpublic, schools in the city, the Model Cities Drug Program, the Boston Teachers Union, the Drug Treatment and Drug Education Committee of United Community Services of Metropolitan Boston and the project currently coordinated by the Boston University Mental Health Center and the Boston College-Urban League Joint Center for Intercity Change. At least two of the persons appointed by the Mayor shall be doctors or psychologists who have dealt with the medical and psychological problems of youth in Boston.
   (B)   The Mayor shall, from time to time, designate one of the members of the Board as Chair and another as Vice-Chair. The Mayor shall designate a full-time executive secretary of the Board. The Board may appoint clerical assistance.
   (C)   All members of the Board shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for expenses necessarily incurred in the performance of their duties.
(Ord. 1969 c. 17; Rev. Ord. 1961 (Sup. 1971) c. 10C § 1; CBC 1975 Ord. T12 § 300; CBC 1985 12-7.1)
12-7.2   Duties.
   It shall be the duty of the Coordinating Council on Drug Abuse to meet at least once a month; to coordinate to the fullest possible extent the work of all public and private Agencies dealing with drug abuse; to effect an ongoing dialogue and exchange of views between such Agencies; to conduct, either independently or in conjunction with the School Committee of the city, such drug education programs as said Council deems advisable; to conduct studies, investigations and research into the sources and use of harmful drugs and narcotic drugs as those terms are respectively defined in M.G.L. Chapter 94, Section 187A and Section 197, as now or hereafter amended; to pursue a course of action to ensure that all laws governing the sale, possession and use of both harmful and narcotic drugs are a duly enforced; and by the use of such media of communication as said Council shall, from time to time, deem appropriate, keep the inhabitants of the city informed respecting the use of both harmful and narcotic drugs.
(Rev. Ord. 1961 (Sup. 1971) c. 10C § 2; CBC 1975 Ord. T12 § 301; CBC 1985 12-7.2)
Cross-reference:
   M.G.L. Chapter 94, Sections 187A and 197
12-8   PENAL INSTITUTIONS DEPARTMENT.
Editor’s note:
   Chapter 138 of the Statutes of 1991, Sections 356-363, abolished the city Penal Institutions Department and the post of Penal Institutions Commissioner. In addition, the Deer Island House of Corrections mentioned in the ordinance was subsequently decommissioned upon the opening of the new facility.
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