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1. HEAD START ZERO-FIVE PROGRAM'S POLICY COUNCIL PARENT ELECTION PROCEDURE Approve the Maricopa County Head Start Zero-Five Program’s Policy Council Parent Representative Election Procedure. As described in the Head Start Act amended December 12, 2007, Maricopa County ’s Head Start Zero-Five Program, this procedure outlines the steps required to elect parent representatives to serve on the Policy Council. This procedure was unanimously approved by the Maricopa County Head Start Zero-Five Program Policy Council on May 30, 2008. Maricopa County has been providing Head Start and Early Head Start services in Maricopa County , outside the City of Phoenix , since 1965. Federal regulations require every Head Start program to establish a Policy Council that shares responsibility with the Board of Supervisors for overseeing the delivery of high quality services to children and families. The FY 2008-09 Policy Council is made up of 21 parent representatives and 7 community representatives. These representatives serve a one-year term, from September through September of each year. Federal regulations stipulate that no member of the Policy Council may serve more than three one-year terms on the Policy Council. The Policy Council meets once per month, generally on the last Friday of the month. Meetings are held at the Mesa Office. The new term begins at the Policy Council’s September 27, 2008 meeting. (ADM2502) (C-22-09-082-6-00)

Vote: approved

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32. REVISION TO HEAD START POLICY COUNCIL PARENT REPRESENTATIVE ELECTION PROCEDURE Approve revisions to the Maricopa County Head Start Zero-Five Policy Council Parent Representative Election Procedure. The purpose of the revisions is to: 1) explain that Parent Representatives are elected to represent clusters of program sites or program options, and 2) allow only one parent representative to be elected from any site within the cluster This revision will become effective on July 1, 2010. Both the Board of Supervisors and the Head Start Policy Council must approve procedures for how members of the Policy Council are selected, as required by the Head Start Act Section 642.c(1)(E)(iv)(VI). The Maricopa County Head Start Zero-Five Program Policy Council approved this revised procedure on February 26, 2010. This revision ensures as broad a representation as possible from the program sites within each Cluster. (C-22-09-082-6-02)