Draft Recommendation - Powers and Duties

The Authority shall have the following powers and duties established in Code in order for it to effectively accomplish its public purpose and objectives:

• Ability to administer the federal AHEC program serve as the incorporated Consortium of allopathic and osteopathic medical schools in Virginia as required by federal statute to qualify for the receipt of Area Health Education Center funding from the Health Resources and Services Administration Area Health Education Centers programs, legislatively mandated under the Public Health Service Act as amended, Title VII, Section 751, and (42 U.S.C. 294a); and to administer federal, state and local programs as needed to carry out its public purpose and objectives.    
• Ability to monitor, collect and track data pertaining to health care delivery, training and education from Virginia educational institutions and other entities as needed to carry out its public purpose and objectives where such data efforts do not already exist in order . 
• Responsibility to submit a biennial report to the Commissioner State Board of Health, Commissioner of Health, Secretary of Health and Human Resources, Secretary of Education, Secretary of Commerce and Trade, Governor, Joint Commission on Health Care and General Assembly annually on its activities and recommendations.  In any reporting period where state general funds are appropriated to the Authority, the report shall include a detailed summary of how state general funds were expended.
  
• Ability to apply for and accept Federal, State and local (public and private) grants, loans, appropriations and donations to carry out its public purpose and objectives.
  
• Ability to hire and compensate staff, including an Executive Director
  
• Ability to rent, lease, buy, own, acquire and dispose of property, real or personal
  
• Ability to participate in joint ventures, including to make contracts and other agreements, with public and private entities to carry out its public purpose and objectives
• Ability to assess policies, engage in policy development and make policy recommendations 
• Ability to make bylaws for the management and regulation of its affairs
• Exemption from taxes and assessments
  
• Exemption from Personnel Act, Workforce Transition Act, Administrative Process Act, Public Procurement Act and VITA.
  

Please use the comment section to provide us with feedback...do these recommendations provide us with the type of powers needed to efficiently and effectively accomplish the mission and objectives of the authority?  Are there some things missing?  Do you have any recommendations for additions or edits?