230A.10 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF TRUSTEES.
230A.10 POWERS AND DUTIES OF TRUSTEES.
The community mental health center board of trustees shall:
1. Have authority to adopt bylaws and rules for its own guidance
and for the government of the center.
2. Employ a director and staff for the center, fix their
compensation, and have control over the director and staff.
3. Designate at least one of the trustees to visit and review the
operation of the center at least once each month.
4. Procure and pay premiums on insurance policies required for
the prudent management of the center, including but not limited to
public liability, professional malpractice liability, workers'
compensation and vehicle liability, any of which may include as
additional insureds the board of trustees and employees of the
center.
5. Establish, with approval of the board or joint boards of
supervisors of the county or counties served by the center, standards
to be followed in determining whether and to what extent persons
seeking services from the center shall be considered able to pay the
cost of the services received.
6. Establish, with approval of the board or joint boards of
supervisors of the county or counties served by the center, policies
regarding whether the services of the center will be made available
to persons who are not residents of the county or counties served by
the center, and if so upon what terms.
7. Purchase or lease a site for the center, and provide and equip
suitable quarters for the center.
8. Prepare and approve plans and specifications for all center
buildings and equipment, and advertise for bids as required by law
for county buildings before making any contract for the construction
of any building or purchase of equipment.
9. File with the board of supervisors within thirty days after
the close of each budget year, a report covering their proceedings
with reference to the center and a statement of all receipts and
expenditures during the preceding budget year.
10. Accept property by gift, devise, bequest or otherwise; and,
if the board deems it advisable, may, at public sale, sell or
exchange any property so accepted upon a concurring vote of a
majority of all members of the board of trustees, and apply the
proceeds thereof, or property received in exchange therefor, to the
purposes enumerated in subsection 7, or to purchase equipment.
11. There shall be published quarterly in each of the official
newspapers of the county as selected by the board of supervisors
pursuant to section 349.1 the schedule of bills allowed and there
shall be published annually in such newspapers the schedule of
salaries paid by job classification and category, but not by listing
names of individual employees. The names, addresses, salaries and
job classification of all employees paid in whole or in part from
public funds shall be a public record and open to inspection at
reasonable times as designated by the board of trustees.
12. Recruit, promote, accept and use local financial support for
the community mental health center from private sources such as
community service funds, business, industrial and private
foundations, voluntary agencies and other lawful sources.
13. Accept and expend state and federal funds available directly
to the community mental health center for all or any part of the cost
of any service the center is authorized to provide.
14. Enter into a contract with an affiliate, which may be an
individual or a public or private group, agency, or corporation,
organized and operating on either a profit or a nonprofit basis, for
any of the services described in section 230A.2, to be provided by
the affiliate to residents of the county or counties served by the
community mental health center who are patients or clients of the
center and are referred by the center to the affiliate for service.
Section History: Early Form
[C75, 77, 79, 81, § 230A.10] Section History: Recent Form
83 Acts, ch 101, § 41
Referred to in § 230A.3