1. Mental health and developmental disabilities regional planning councils are established. The regions of the initial planning councils shall be the same as the regions of the mental illness, mental retardation, developmental disabilities, and brain injury planning councils created pursuant to 1993 Iowa Acts, chapter 172, section 20, subsection 5. A region's planning area shall either utilize the borders of a pertinent field services cluster established in accordance with section 217.42 or have a population of forty thousand and include counties with a historical pattern of cooperation in providing disability services.
2. The members of a planning council shall include a member of the county board of supervisors of each county comprising the planning council and a sufficient number of disability service providers and service consumers or family members of service consumers to provide for adequate representation of the providers and consumers or family members. The board of supervisors of the counties comprising the planning council shall determine the size and membership of the planning council.
3. A county may request that the mental health and developmental disabilities commission approve the county to shift its membership in a regional planning council to a different planning council. In considering a request, the commission shall review geographic distance, natural market areas, tax structure, population factors, and other factors raised by the requestor and other affected counties concerning the planning council regions affected by the request.
4. A planning council shall perform the following tasks:
a. Develop a planning process and plan for services to persons with disabilities residing in the region. Planning shall encompass a five-year time span and shall be annually updated. The plans shall be submitted to the boards of supervisors of the counties in the region and to the commission.
b. Recommend the expenditure of all state and county funds, and to the extent possible, federal funds for disability services within the region.
c. Provide for input into the planning process by the public and service consumers, providers, and funders.
d. Work with staff assigned to the planning council to perform needs assessments, plan development, and to work with consumers, providers, and funders, and fulfill other necessary functions.
e. Make recommendations to the county boards of supervisors associated with the planning area and to the commission, concerning disability services and related budget issues.
f. Perform other duties at the request of the counties comprising the region and of the commission.
5. The requirements of this section relating to services to persons with disabilities are not intended as and shall not be construed as a requirement to provide services.
94 Acts, ch 1170, §19
Referred to in § 225C.7, 331.424A
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