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These new guidelines for the Aging Advisory Committee, combined with recent vacancies due to expired serms, require the nomination of a si~aificant number of new members. To assist local governments in each county in submitting nominations, while also meeting federal guidelines for representation~ the Centralina staff proposes the following nomination process. 1. To start with a clean slate, and avoid confusion, all terms shall be considered expired, and all present active members shall be renomi- nated along with new nominees ( a list of present active members, vacancies, and proposed terms ~s attached). 2. The staff will accept the nominations for each county from the Board of County Commissioners, or their officially designated representative. The County Commissions should, of course, seek the advice of other local elected officials and of advisory groups representing the elderly ( especially where a group has been named the aging focal point for such advocacy - as in Mecklenburg ). 3. To give the COG Chairman the flexibility to meet federal guidelines for representation, each county will be asked to submit one extra nominee (3 for each coumty, except 5 for Mecklenburg). In doing so, each will be asked to consider the suggested proportions of elderly, minority, and elected officials in their choices. Extra nominees will serve as alternates. 4. The Aging Advi§ory Committee must give adequate representation to clients of existing programs for the elderly, and at the same-time, avoid a possi- ble conflict of interest. Therefore counties should not nominate persons whose salaries or benefits are paid by Older American Act funds, and over which the Aging Advisory Committe has direct authority. Directors of pro- jects will be notified of and invited to meetings as non-voting members and should, as a matter of course, wock closely with county nominees, pro- vide them information and other appropriate assistance for their decision making.