Section 489.3.2. Membership.

         3.2(1) The child advocacy board delegates responsibility to the administrator to develop and for local board coordinators to implement an application, recruitment, screening and training process for appointments to vacated local board positions:

            a.               The process will culminate in the coordinator’s preparation of a written selection rationale statement about the prospective appointee to the child advocacy board.

            b.               The process will include consultation with the chief judge for the court district served by the local board.

            c.               The administrator will submit each written selection rationale statement electronically to all child advocacy board members no later than 30 calendar days prior to the beginning date of the local board member’s prospective term. If a board member vacates the position mid-term, the selection process and resulting written selection rationale statement shall be submitted to the child advocacy board as soon as practicable.

            d.               Within 15 calendar days after receipt of the written selection rationale statement, any child advocacy board member may request a telephonic child advocacy board meeting to review a prospective appointment. During the meeting, child advocacy board members may raise questions and then vote for the approval or disapproval of the prospective appointment.

            e.               If no meeting is requested, the prospective local board member is deemed approved by the child advocacy board.

         3.2(2) A person employed by the department of inspections and appeals, the department of human services, the judicial department, an employee of an agency with which the department of human services contracts for services for children under foster care, a foster parent providing foster care, or a child-placing agency shall not serve on a local board. The child advocacy board shall provide the names of the members of the local boards to the department of human services.

         3.2(3) Vacancies on a local board shall be filled in the same manner as original appointments are made.

         3.2(4) The term of a local board member’s appointment shall not exceed three years. The child advocacy board shall fix the tenure of individual appointments so that no more than one-third of the membership’s terms expire in a given year.

         3.2(5) The administrator shall develop a local board member evaluation process. The local board coordinator shall complete the evaluation process at least once for each local board member during the member’s three-year term. The local board coordinator shall consider the results of the evaluation when determining whether to seek appointment of the local board member to a successive term. When submitting a written selection rationale statement to the child advocacy board for a local board member to serve a successive term, the local board coordinator shall include a summary of the evaluation results for that member.

         3.2(6) A local board member may serve continuous successive terms when selected and approved in accordance with this rule.

         3.2(7) A quorum consists of at least three local review board members or alternates. A quorum shall be present before cases can be reviewed and recommendations can be voted on. At least two members must be present during questioning of interested parties.

This rule is intended to implement Iowa Code sections 17A.3 and 237.19.

[ARC 2322C, IAB 12/23/15, effective 1/27/16]