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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="3-2B-10" title_number="3" title_name="Establishment of County Boards of Education" subtitle_number="2B" subtitle_name="Baltimore County">
  <level label="a">
    <text>There is a School Shared Space Council in Baltimore County consisting of 12 employees of the county appointed by the County Executive for a term coterminous with that of the county board as follows:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Two from the staff of the county board;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Two from the County Executive’s administrative staff, one of whom shall be the Director of Central Services;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>One from the Department of Social Services;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>One from the Department of Recreation and Parks;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>One from the Department of Aging;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>One from the Health Department;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>One from the county community colleges, subject to the following conditions:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Representation shall be determined on a rotating basis by alphabetical order by community college name; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Each such member shall serve for 1 year;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>One from the Department of Juvenile Services;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>One from the county public libraries; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="10">
      <text>One from the Department of Planning.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A county employee Council member who does not maintain his employment in the county shall be replaced.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>In addition to the county employee members, there shall be eight county citizens selected as members of the Council as follows and with the following duties:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The county citizen members shall be selected by the County Executive. One member shall be selected from each legislative district of Baltimore County with the approval of the State Senator from that district. Each legislative district representative shall reside in that district;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Each member shall be selected to serve a 2–year term;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A citizen member shall be entitled to attend and vote at a Council session where an issue before the Council concerns the school or schools in the citizen member’s respective district; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>When the Council meets to consider countywide issues, all selected citizen members shall be entitled to attend such sessions and vote.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The Council shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Meet as needed to compile the number of spaces in the public schools of the county that are not filled and to evaluate the feasibility of the utilization of the spaces by the community and county departments; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Report its findings and recommendations to the county board and the County Executive at least twice during the school year.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>The County Executive may, by executive order, appoint up to two additional members to the Council from agencies of the county government.</text>
  </level>
</section>
