DATE: December 11, 2018
TO: Board of Supervisors
SUBMITTED BY: Carolyn Evans, Chair, Fresno County Behavioral Health Board
SUBJECT: Amendment to Bylaws of the Fresno County Behavioral Health Board
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
TITLE
Approve the amended Bylaws for the Fresno County Behavioral Health Board.
REPORT
ALTERNATIVE ACTION(S):
Your Board may choose not to approve the amended bylaws and recommend that the Fresno County Behavioral Health Board (FCBHB) revise and resubmit the bylaws for Board approval.
FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no increase in Net County Cost associated with the recommended action.
DISCUSSION:
On March 24, 2015, the Board adopted Resolution Number 15-080, consolidating the Fresno County Mental Health Board and Alcohol and Drug Advisory Board to create the FCBHB. The FCBHB is the public advisory board on adult, children's, and justice system mental health and alcohol and substance use disorder (SUD) issues, whose duties and functions are delineated in the Welfare and Institutions Code (WIC) and the Health and Safety Code (HSC).
On October 13, 2015, the Board approved the bylaws of the newly formed FCBHB.
On June 2, 2018, the FCBHB received a training from Susan Wilson, Planning Council Liaison to the California Association of Local Behavioral Health Boards and Commissions (CALBHB/C). Ms. Wilson recommended that the FCBHB make the following changes to its bylaws:
* Insert language from WIC Section 5604 (d)(2) to reflect the exception that allows consumers to serve on the FCBHB in spite of employment at a county mental health service, the California Department of Health Care Services, or a mental health contract agency as long as that person does not have any interest, influence, or authority over any financial or contractual matter concerning the employer;
* Define "recuse" to mean that a member shall leave the room during a discussion or vote on any issue in which the member has a financial interest as defined in Section 87103 of the G...
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