Boards, Committees, Commissions | Supervisor Yxstian Gutierrez, District 5

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Board, Committee and Commission Vacancies

Advisory Council on Aging

Purpose: To study, review, evaluate and make recommendations regarding any and all matters which affect older persons including: health, education, housing, employment, recreation, transportation; identify unmet needs, and public and private county services.

Assessment Appeals Board No. 1

Purpose: To find the full cash value of a property under appeal; lower upon application, or to increase after giving notice, individual assessment on the local roll; to review, equalize, and adjust penalty and escape assessments on the local roll; to direct the Assessor of necessary changes.

Assessment Appeals Board No. 2

Behavioral Health Commission

The Riverside County Behavioral Health Commission (BHC) is an advisory body, composed of volunteers appointed by the Board of Supervisors, who work in conjunction with the Riverside County Department of Mental Health to ensure citizen and professional input and involvement in all aspects of Department Services. BHC members serve for a three-year term and are governed by the California Welfare and Institution Code §5604 and the Ralph M. Brown Act.

Behavioral Health Regional Advisory Board - Mid-County

Purpose: The Regional Behavioral Health Advisory Boards (Western, Desert, and Mid-County) are an advisory body, composed of volunteers appointed by the Behavioral Health Director, and work in conjunction with the Riverside University Health System – Behavioral Health to ensure citizens and professional input and involvement in all aspects of Department Services.

Children & Families Advisory Committee

Purpose: Provide essential geographic input and ensure issues unique to these areas of the County are elevated to the Commission’s attention. Conduct forums for community input to the Strategic Plan and share with the public data illustrating gaps in service. Provide ongoing information on the activities of the Commission to the citizens in their Supervisorial District. Provide guidance to the Commission on expenditures and programs as gleaned from their outreach efforts and knowledge of the district they represent. Serve as monitors for programs funded, evaluating and reporting back to the Commission on efficiency and effectiveness. Participate in the development of the Riverside County Children and Families Strategic Plan.

Children and Families Commission

Purpose: To create and implement a comprehensive, collaborative, and integrated system of information and services to promote, support, and optimize early childhood development from the prenatal stage to five years of age. To ensure that the early childhood development programs and services are universally and continually available for children until the beginning of kindergarten. To emphasize local decision making, to provide for greater local flexibility in designing delivery systems, and to eliminate duplicate administrative services.

Community Action Commission

Purpose: To provide guidance to the Board on anti-poverty programming, funding and to amplify the needs of low-income communities and residents.

County Archives Commission

Purpose: to advise and make recommendations to the Riverside County Board of Supervisors concerning the development of the County Archives, and preservation of County historical records, documents and objects.

El Sobrante Landfill Citizen Oversight Committee

Purpose: The COC meets at least annually to review annual reports, administer the local mitigation trust account, and discuss landfill related topics.

Elsinore Cemetery District

Purpose: To offer affordable burial and memorializing needs to our community with honor, dignity, compassion and care, in an environment of beauty and serenity.

Emergency Medical Care Committee (EMCC)

Purpose: To serve in an advisory capacity for the Board of Supervisors concerning all aspects of emergency medical care within the County of Riverside. Report its observations and recommendations concerning the feasibility and content of emergency medical care programs within the county, other counties, the state and the United States.

Fair Board

Purpose: To counsel and advise the Board of Supervisors as to administrative and policy matters in connection with the Riverside County’s National Date Festival.

Flood Control Commission

Purpose: To provide for the control and conservation of flood and storm waters and for the protection of watercourses, watersheds, public highways, life and property from damage or destruction from such flood waters. To prevent the waste or diminution of the water supply and provide for the conservation of all or any drainage, storm flood and other waters for beneficial use.

Historical Commission

Purpose: The Historical Commission is responsible for broad purposes relating to their advisory function to the County Board of Supervisors on matters pertaining to the study of local history and documentation and preservation of historic records, sites and structures.

In-Home Supportive Services

Purpose: AB 1682 (Chapter 90, Statutes of 1999) requires counties to establish advisory committees to:
Recommend to counties a preferred mode of service relative to administration and delivery of in-home supportive services (IHSS)
Recommend and employer-of-record for collective bargaining purposes;
Provide ongoing advice and recommendations regarding IHSS to your Honorable Board, or any other entity-delegated responsibility by the Board for delivery and administration of IHSS.

Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO)

Purpose: Specified in the Cortese-Knox-Harteberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 (Government Code 56000 et seq.) To include the following responsibilities: Discourage urban sprawl; preserve open-space and prime agricultural lands; encourage orderly formation and development of governmental agencies based upon local conditions and circumstances; initiate and make studies of governmental agencies; develop spheres of influence for local governmental agencies.

Perris Valley Cemetery District

Purpose: To serve the community with the highest level of service, care, and compassion, as well as provide affordability in burial and cremations services for the families of the deceased.

Planning Commission

Purpose: The Commission shall perform planning and zoning duties specified by law or ordinance not expressly delegated or reserved to another body or officer including proceedings for adopting or amending general and specific plans, changes of zone, changes of the zoning ordinance, and review of subdivision and parcel maps, and shall advise the Board of Supervisors in related matters.

Riverisde-Corona Resource Conservation District

Purpose: To sustain natural resources and helps others conserve resources, so that high quality water, land, soil, wildlife, air and plant life will be abundant forever.

Riverside County Asset Leasing Corporation (CORAL)

Purpose: The specific and primary purpose for which this corporation is formed is to render assistance to Riverside County (the “County”) by acquiring and maintaining machinery, vehicles and other equipment of any type or kind whatsoever needed by the County for its operations, by acquiring, purchasing and constructing or providing for the construction of facilities, the renovation of existing facilities and other improvements including, without limitations, shops, warehouses, garages and other buildings, and facilities of any type, and by leasing such equipment and facilities to the County.

Riverside County Regional Park And Open-Space District Advisory Commission

Purpose: The purpose of the Park Advisory Commission is to advise and make recommendations to the Board of Supervisors/Directors on the planning, acquisition, development and use of parks and the comprehensive regional park and open-space system for the County of Riverside, matters relating to the conservation and propagation of fish and game in the County; and acquisition, development, maintenance and promotion of regional recreation trails.

Riverside Transit Agency

Purpose: To provide both local and regional services throughout the region with 33 fixed routes, four CommuterLink express routes, and Dial-A-Ride services using 334 vehicles.

Veterans Advisory Committee

Purpose: Keep the Board of Supervisors informed of all problems affecting veterans and advising the Board of appropriate action to resolve such problems.
Help unify different veterans groups in the overall interest of all veterans of Riverside County
Serve as the basic support group for the National Cemetery – Riverside
Assist in the orderly return of the veterans to civilian life by protecting his rights while he is in uniform
Advise and assist the County Veterans Service Officer in the rehabilitation of veterans through existing employment services, education, insurance, housing and hospitalization programs and other veterans benefits
Act as the liaisons between veterans and the county government in conjunction with the Veterans Service Officer
Keep the public aware of the problems and needs of the veterans who fought or served to preserve our way of life

Purpose: To keep the community advised of issues and concerns and to provide a dialogue between members of the community and county staff representing various agencies.

Workforce Investment Board

Purpose: The Workforce Investment Board shall have the following responsibilities:
Provide policy guidance in the development of the five-year local workforce investment plan(Local Plan) and provide oversight on the One-Stop system, youth activities and employment and training activities under Title I of WIA, in partnership with the chief elected official
Select One-Stop operators with the agreement of the chief elected official
Develop a budget for the purpose of carrying out the duties of the WIB, subject to the approval of the Board of Supervisors
In cooperation with the Board of Supervisors, appoint a youth council as a subgroup of the WIB and coordinate workforce and youth plans and activities with the youth council
Select eligible youth service providers based on the recommendations of the Youth Council, and identify eligible providers of adult and dislocated worker intensive services and training services , and maintain a list of eligible providers with performance and cost information, as required in 20 CFR part 663, subpart E
Negotiate and reach agreement on local performance measures with the Board of Supervisors and the Governor
Assist the Governor in developing the statewide employment statistics system under the Wagner-Peyser Act;
Coordinate workforce investment activities with economic development strategies and developing business linkages; and
Promote private sector involvement in the statewide workforce investment system through effective connecting, brokering, and coaching activities through intermediaries such as the One-Stop operator in the local area or through other organizations, to assist businesses in meeting hiring needs
Serve in an advisory capacity to the Board of Supervisors on all matters relating to employment and Training not covered by Title I of the Workforce Investment Act

Boards, Commissions, Committees

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