489—3.2(237) 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 includes the coordinator’s conducting a personal interview with the applicant, obtaining character references, and completing background checks on the applicant.
	b. 	The process will include consultation between the coordinator and coordinator’s direct supervisor.
	3.2(2) A person employed by the department of health and human services or the judicial department, an employee of an agency with which the department of health and 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.
	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 four 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. A local board member may serve continuous successive terms.
	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 four-year term. The local board coordinator, in consultation with the coordinator’s direct supervisor, shall consider the results of the evaluation when determining whether to approve reappointment of the local board member to a successive term. Prior to any reappointment, the member shall complete updated background checks and a progress evaluation.
	3.2(6) A quorum is established when a majority of local review board members or alternates are present. A quorum shall be present before cases can be reviewed and recommendations are formulated.
This rule is intended to implement Iowa Code sections 17A.3 and 237.19.
[ARC 2322C, IAB 12/23/15, effective 1/27/16; ARC 6676C, IAB 11/16/22, effective 12/21/22; ARC 7698C, IAB 3/6/24, effective 7/1/24; see correction note at end of chapter]