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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES 32[5 ~IORTH SALISBURY STREET JAMES B. HUNT. JR, SARAH T. MORROW. ~OV~RNO~ RALEIGH 276! 1 SECR E~'ARY November 9, 1977 Dear County Commissioner Chairman: The North Carolina Department of Human Resources is attempting to broaden the scope of public participation in plauning for social services which are funded by Title XX of the federal Social Security Act. Toward this esd~ I have recently approved the creation of ten Area Planning Advisory Committees (APAC's) and one State Planning Advisory Committee (SPAC). The APAC's will provide a mechanism through which citizens from every county in North Carolina can participate actively in the annual Title XX planning process. The SPAC will provide a forum from which APAC representatives can make their recommendations known to me and to my staff members who are charged with the responsibility for administering the state's Title XX program. The enclosed paper, "Description of the Title XX Planning Process," describes the composition and functions.of the Area and State Planning Advisory ' Committees in some detail, It also describes the training and technical assistance in Title XX planning which is being offered to local agencies through DHR contracts with North Carolina State University and the seventeBn Lead Regional Organizations, To ensure that each county is appropriately represented on_an APAC, I am asking ~he chairman of each Board of County Commissioners to nolainate an individual from that county to serve as a member of an APAC. The individual nominated may be an i~lected official, a government employee, an employee of % local private sBrvlces agency or any other citizen who is simply concerned about human services prog{_a~_s. It is very important that the individual you nominate be able to devote time and energy to the task of understanding Title XX possibilities, needs for Title XX services and preparing recommendations regarding Title XX services priorities. The APAC's will meet at least four times a year and it is expected that a total of five working days will be spent attending these meetings. Committee members will be reim- bursed for travel and per diem expenses at the same rares used for state employees. Tho~e APAC members {two from each APAC) who are elected go reprBsent their co~ittee on the SPAC will need to attend at least four additional meetings each year. The SPAC members will also be reimbursed for travel and per diem expenses. After you nominate a~ individual to the APAC, I will appoint your nominee to the committee and I will also appoint a second individual from your county. After both of these appointments are made, the two a~pointees will nominate the third county representative. The third representative must be a social services client who ~eceived a Title XX service within the six months preceding his/her nomination. will then appoint the person nominated as the third representative.