1. (a) The Commission Executive Director may delegate any of the following duties to Commission Staff to assist the Executive Director in performing tasks under this section.

2. (b) The Executive Director may:

   1. (1) participate with national entities that train and support staff in developing skills to create parent leaders;
   2. (2) develop an application process for the Parent Partnership Board that seeks to recruit a diverse set of parents with varying life experiences that have caused them to interact with child-serving systems;
   3. (3) work with outside entities with expertise in parent boards to possibly assist with recommendations for the Parent Partnership Board's member selection and create a parent manual;
   4. (4) provide staff support for in-person and phone meetings including such activities as creating meeting agendas, securing presenters, organizing trainings, and providing travel claim assistance;
   5. (5) make recommendations to the Commissioners for potential grant-making subject matters;
   6. (6) develop Requests for Proposals, with input from the Commissioners and the Parent Partnership Board, so that local entities, governmental agencies, and/or academic institutions may apply for the Oklahoma Children's Endowment Fund Grants;
   7. (7) develop a standardized scoring tool for scoring the Requests for Proposals and utilize a scoring panel to score and rank submitted proposals;
   8. (8) present the scores and rankings to the Commissioners with recommendations for funding;
   9. (9) award contracts/grants to those with approval from the Commissioners;
   10. (10) provide appropriate contract monitoring for those with the successful proposals;
   11. (11) provide technical assistance and support to grantees;
   12. (12) review invoices for appropriateness and assure invoices are paid;
   13. (13) assure that applicable demographic, process and outcomes data is collected and provided to OCCY in order to show program effectiveness; and
   14. (14) take any other action necessary to ensure the orderly execution of the grant process.

Added at 36 Ok Reg 1526, eff 9-13-19