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House Journal: Page 1051: Monday, March 30, 1998

44   necessary for the designation, governance, and
45   oversight of community empowerment areas and the
46   administration of this chapter.  The Iowa board shall
47   provide for community board input in the rules
48   adoption process.
49     Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  7I.4  COMMUNITY
50   EMPOWERMENT AREAS.

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 1     1.  The purpose of a community empowerment area is
 2   to enable local citizens to lead collaborative efforts
 3   involving education, health, and human services
 4   programs on behalf of the children, families, and
 5   other citizens residing in the area.  Leadership
 6   functions may include but are not limited to strategic
 7   planning for and oversight and managing of such
 8   programs and the funding made available to the
 9   community empowerment area for such programs from
10   federal, state, local, and private sources.
11     2.  Each county and school district in the state
12   shall have the option of participating in a community
13   empowerment area.  A community empowerment area shall
14   be designated by using existing school district and
15   county boundaries to the extent possible.  For
16   geographic areas that are part of an innovation zone
17   or included in a decategorization project in effect as
18   of July 1, 1998, the initial community empowerment
19   area shall be the larger of the two.
20     3.  The designation of a community empowerment area
21   and the creation of a community empowerment area board
22   are subject to the approval of the Iowa empowerment
23   board.  Criteria used by the Iowa empowerment board in
24   approving the designation of a community empowerment
25   area shall include but are not limited to the
26   existence of a large enough geographic area and
27   population to efficiently and effectively administer
28   the responsibilities and authority of the community
29   empowerment area.  The Iowa empowerment board shall
30   adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A providing
31   procedures for the initial designation of community
32   empowerment areas and for later changing the initially
33   designated areas.
34     Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  7I.5  COMMUNITY
35   EMPOWERMENT AREA BOARDS CREATED.
36     1.  A community empowerment area shall be governed
37   by a community empowerment area board.  A majority of
38   the members of a community board shall be citizens and
39   elected officials and the remaining members may be
40   employees of or paid for representing any of the
41   entities listed in this subsection.  The members of a
42   community empowerment area board may include one or
43   more representatives of any of the following entities:

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