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<section article="ghu" article_name="Human Services" number="9-502" title_number="9" title_name="Juvenile Services" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Juvenile Services Education Board">
  <level label="a">
    <text>There is a Juvenile Services Education Board within the Department.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Subject to the provisions of this section, the Board is an independent unit within the Department.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Board shall be included as a unit within the Department for purposes of the Department’s annual operating budget.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The programs overseen by the Board shall be included in the Board’s budget.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection, the following support services for the Board shall be provided by existing units in the Department and the cost of any necessary support provided to the Board should be included in the budgets of those units:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>information and technology services;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>procurement services;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>fiscal services;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>capital planning and capital budgeting;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>human resources;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>facility and office maintenance;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>research and program evaluation; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="viii">
        <text>investigations and monitoring.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>The Superintendent shall have exclusive control of the day–to–day operation of juvenile education services.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Decisions on the provision of education, including decisions to hire, fire, and assign staff, shall be made exclusively by the Board or the Superintendent, subject to appropriations in the State budget, and the Department has no power to deny or modify an education decision made by the Board or the Superintendent.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>The Board and the Department shall, in accordance with this section, jointly negotiate a memorandum of understanding carefully delineating the duties of each in the provision of juvenile education services.</text>
  </level>
</section>
