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b~MORANDUM c~nttnued Page --each member of the coa~mittee must be a resident of the county in which it serves; --no person or immediate family member of a person with a financial interest in a domiciliary home served by a committee, or employee or governing board member of ~ domiciliary home served by a committee, or i~nediate family member of a resi- dent in a domiciliary home served by a committee may be a mem- ber of a committee; --any county commissioner appointed [o the committee will serve in an ex-officio capacity. of the committ~ m~mb~ ~n~:'.~..aat~'.gfe~pi~a~i0P c) File 'Of' th%i~~ t~s~{t~ 'th~'~Su~ty department of social s~rvices. ~opy bf~this'f'~t~' ~tl~''~h~'-~e ~en~ tS"~t~' CS~'~&i~, c~ra S~?vlc~fo~-AdUl'te~5 Di~i'Si0n of S0c~af'~pl~es', "~5"N0rth This informa- tion ~i'~l b~ ~hsmi(ted by ~e county commissioners upon appoint- ment of committee members and will be updated as appointments change. d) Rave ~lexibility in appointing committee members to designate an existing advocacy committee to carry oug the duties and functions of the Domiciliary Home Community Advisory Committees. e) Receive annual report from community advisory committee. f) Guidelines for appointment of Advisory Committees: 1. Terms of Office° It is recommended that eac~.,PerpPn appointed to the community advisory committee serve an-.initihl 'term~f on~ year beginning with the date of appointment. This pro- vision would allow a "staggered" term effect as vacancies ~ occur and replacements made. Any person reappointed to a th?~e yea~klce~m.. By law, nominations of committee members can be solicited from administrators of the domiciliary homes seek nominations from their local council on aging and from their Area Agency on Aging. 2. Coam]ittee Size. The number of persons serving on a committee should vary according to the number of homes in the county as well as the number of persons residing in a home'. It ts recom- mended that at least three persons serve each home in the county with 50 or less residents. For those homes with more thm] 50 residents there should be a five-member committee to serve that home. In addition, no three-member committee or sub-committee should serve more the. tam (10) homes; and any ~five-memb'~r-"c~it~ee seCVing~the larger homes should serve '~o"more'tha~ fiv~ (5) homes. ~ Sub-committees should be estab- lished in counties with more than ten (10) homes with res£dent population under fifty, and in counties with more than five homes with a resident population of more than fifty. 3. Gommlttee Make-up. Special care should be taken'to see that persons with the interest, the time, and the ability [o learn