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May 8, 2012 12 - 187 -Adoption of a resolution expanding the membership of the Community Policy and Management Team to include a member of the Tidewater Youth Services Commission. Vision Principle: Neighborhoods and a Sense of Community. Background: • The Portsmouth Community Policy and Management Team (CPMT) provides oversight and monitors the Comprehensive Services Act (CSA) program. Members are representatives from both public and private youth-serving agencies in Portsmouth. Currently, the voting members are representatives of: o Department Social Services o Behavioral Healthcare Services o Court Services Unit o Portsmouth Public Schools o City Manager's Office o Parent Representative Discussion: • The Tidewater Youth Services Commission (TYSC), formerly known as Tidewater Regional Group Home Commission, was previously a participant at CPMT meetings from 1993 until May, 2009 but was not formally appointed by City Council. TYSC recently expressed interest in resuming participation as a voting member. • At its March 21, 2012 meeting, the CPMT voted to recommend that City Council appoint TYSC to the CPMT. • TYSC is a regional public agency providing services to juveniles through the management of three regional group homes, intensive supervision, detention diversion, clinical services, counseling, mentoring, and other post-release transition treatments. TYSC functions as the fiscal agent for Virginia Juvenile Community Crime Control Act (VJCCCA) programs for its member local governments. It is governed by a Board of Directors that includes representatives of the Cities of Portsmouth, Chesapeake, Suffolk, Virginia Beach, Franklin, Southampton County, and Isle of Wight County. • TYSC provides therapeutic services to juveniles from several funding streams, including CSA. Its role on the CPMT may therefore be perceived as affecting competition with private providers. However, the CPMT discussed this matter and determined that the public nature of TYSC and the CPMT By-Laws and procedural rules would effectively prevent unfair access to CSA funding. Financial Impact: • None. Staff Recommends: • Adoption of resolution. Vision Principle: Neighborhoods and a Sense of Community. Next Steps Following Council Action: • Notification to CPMT and TYSC of expanded CPMT. Motion by Mr. Whitehurst, and seconded by Mr. Edmonds, to adopt the following resolution, and was adopted by the following vote: "RESOLUTION TO EXPAND THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE COMMUNITY POLICY AND MANAGEMENT TEAM TO INCLUDE A MEMBER OF THE TIDEWATER YOUTH SERVICES COMMISSION. WHEREAS, as a result of the requirements of the Virginia Comprehensive Services Act for At-Risk Youth and Families, the City Council first appointed a Community Policy and Management Team ("CPMT") in 1992; and WHEREAS, the purposes of the CPMT include the management of cooperative efforts within the City to better serve the needs of troubled and at-risk youths and their families and to maximize the use of state and community resources to that end; and