Each county shall establish and maintain a local management board to ensure the implementation of a local interagency service delivery system for children, youth, and families. A county may designate as the local management board: a quasi-public nonprofit corporation that is not an instrumentality of the county government; or a public agency that is an instrumentality of the county government.

A local management board may be composed of: public and private community representatives who share the responsibility for implementing a community–based, interagency, family–focused service delivery system for children, youth, and families; a senior representative or department head of the: local health department; local office of the Department of Juvenile Services; core service agency or local behavioral health authority; local school system; and local department of social services; family members or family advocates; and youth or youth advocates.

A local management board shall: strengthen the decision-making capacity at the local level; design and implement strategies that achieve clearly defined results for children, youth, and families as articulated in a local 5-year strategic plan for children, youth, and families; maintain standards of accountability for locally agreed upon results for children, youth, and families; influence the allocation of resources across systems as necessary to accomplish the desired results; build local partnerships to coordinate children, youth, and family services within the county to eliminate fragmentation and duplication of services; and create an effective system of services, supports, and opportunities that improve outcomes for all children, youth, and families.

The members of the Children’s Cabinet shall adopt regulations that: specify the roles and responsibilities of local management boards; establish minimum standards for the composition of local management boards; establish fiscal and program accountability in the implementation of community partnership agreements and the use of other State resources by local management boards; establish procedures to ensure the confidentiality of information shared by local management board members and employees in accordance with State and federal law; and generally relate to the operation of local management boards.

On or before October 1 of each year, the Maryland Association of Local Management Board Directors shall, in accordance with § 2-1257 of the State Government Article, submit to the Senate Finance Committee, the House Committee on Ways and Means, and the Joint Committee on Children, Youth, and Families, a report summarizing, with respect to the programs implemented under § 8-505(d) of this title: each local management board’s activities; the amount of money spent on the programs; and the effectiveness of the programs.

On or before January 1, 2018, the Prince George’s County Local Management Board shall: develop and implement a strategic plan to raise revenues to match the total funding provided by the Governor’s Office for Children; and submit the strategic plan to: the County Executive of Prince George’s County; the County Council of Prince George’s County; the Prince George’s County Senate Delegation of the General Assembly; and the Prince George’s County House Delegation of the General Assembly. On or before January 1 each year, the Prince George’s County Local Management Board shall submit a report on the total revenue received in the previous fiscal year and the total revenue from each source to: the County Executive of Prince George’s County; the County Council of Prince George’s County; the Prince George’s County Senate Delegation of the General Assembly; and the Prince George’s County House Delegation of the General Assembly.