(1) The executive director of the department of human services or the executive director's designee shall appoint a director of the commission. The executive director of the department shall provide comment and input to the commission on the hiring of the director.
(2) (a) The commission shall convene its first meeting of each fiscal year no later than October 1.
(b) The commission may adopt such policies as are necessary to facilitate orderly conduct of its business.
(c) The commission shall meet at least quarterly. Meetings shall also be held on call of the chair or at the request of at least three members of the commission.
(d) The commission shall adopt no official position, recommendation, or action except by the concurrence of a majority of the members.
(e) The commission shall encourage development and coordination of public and private agencies providing assistance to deaf, hard-of-hearing, and deafblind citizens.
(f)
(I) There is hereby created the Colorado deafblind citizens council consisting of seven members.
(II) The citizens council will advise the commission, state and local governments, and other relevant entities on how to increase competitive integrated employment as defined by section 8-84-301, enlarge economic opportunities, enhance independence and self-sufficiency, and improve services for deafblind persons.
(III) The commission shall appoint initial members to the citizens council by July 1, 2019. The commission shall designate four members to serve an initial four-year term and three members to serve an initial six-year term. After the initial terms, all subsequent appointees will serve four-year terms. The commission shall appoint a qualified person to fill any vacancy on the citizens council for the remainder of any unexpired term. The citizens council must have the following appointees:
(A) One member who is deaf and blind;
(B) One member who is deaf and low vision;
(C) One member who is hard of hearing and blind;
(D) One member who is hard of hearing and low vision;
(E) One member who is latent deafblind;
(F) One member who is a professional working with the deafblind community; and
(G) One member who is a parent of a deafblind child.
(3) and (4) (Deleted by amendment, L. 2009, (SB 09-144), ch. 219, p. 987, § 4, effective August 5, 2009.)
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