[§352D-9]  Office of youth services regionaladvisory boards; power, duties, and authority.  (a)  There shall beestablished a regional advisory board located in each county and they shall becalled the Hawaii, Kauai, Maui, and Oahu regional advisory boards,respectively.  The office shall provide staff support for each board.  Eachboard shall elect annually from among its members a chairperson who shallpreside at its regular meetings.  Each board shall be composed of eleven votingmembers.  Each board's membership shall include four lay persons, of which twoshall possess knowledge of youth services, all appointed by the governor asprovided in section 26-34.

The Oahu regional advisory board shall includethe superintendent of education, the public defender, the directors of humanservices and health, the police chief and the prosecuting attorney of the cityand county of Honolulu, and the senior family court judge of the first circuit,or their designees.

The other regional advisory boards shall includethe county's chief of police and prosecuting attorney, a deputy publicdefender, a family court judge, and one representative from each of thefollowing departments of education, human services, and health, who shall beselected by their respective directors, or their designees.

All board members shall be residents of thecounty in which the regional advisory board to which they are appointed islocated, and shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed fornecessary expenses incurred during the performance of their duties.

(b)  There shall be a combined meeting of allboards at least once a year.  Each regional board shall advise the office on:

(1)  General policies relating to the youth servicesystem, including but not limited to planning, integration, development, andcoordination to effectuate the purposes of this chapter;

(2)  Monitoring and evaluating youth services as theyrelate to the coordination and integration of the youth service system withinits region; and

(3)  Any pertinent issue related to the youth servicesystem within its region. [L 1991, c 258, pt of §2]