PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 77

(b)     (1) The county board shall determine the number of members on the
council.

(2) The councils may include educators and administrators in the field of
education as ex officio, nonvoting members of the councils.

(c)     (1) The county board of education shall appoint the council in any county
that does not have an institution of postsecondary education that receives federal support
for [vocational-technical] CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY education programs.

(2) In any other county, the county school board and the governing bodies of
the institutions of postsecondary education that receive federal support for a
[vocational-technical] CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY education program shall agree on
the procedure for appointment of the council.

(d)     The members of the council shall be members of the general public, especially
representatives of:

(1)	Business;
(2)	Industry;
(3)	Organized labor;
(4)	Each sex;
(5)	Racial and ethnic minorities; and
(6)	The geographic regions of the county.

(e) Each county advisory council shall advise the county board of education and
each institution of postsecondary education in the county that receives federal support for
a [vocational-technical] CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY education program on:

(1)     The distribution of [vocational-technical] CAREER AND
TECHNOLOGY education funds;

(2)     County [vocational-technical] CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY education
program accountability reports;

(3)     County job needs; and

(4)     The adequacy of [vocational-technical] CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY
EDUCATION programs being offered.

Subtitle 2. [Vocational] CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY Education.
21-201.

In this subtitle "federal acts" means:

(1)     The Smith-Hughes Act;

(2)     The George-Barden Act;

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