Chapter 3. General Services Advisory Council of California Government Code >> Division 3. >> Title 2. >> Part 5.5. >> Chapter 3.

There is hereby created within the Department of General Services the General Services Advisory Council. The council shall be composed of not to exceed 12 members who shall be state officers or public members appointed by the Director of General Services with the advice of agency administrators and department heads and who shall serve at the pleasure of the director. The Director of General Services shall serve as chairman of the council. The council shall be under the direction of the director and shall be wholly advisory in character and shall not be delegated any administrative authority or responsibility.

The functions of the council shall include but not be limited to:
  (a) Consideration of improved methods of providing centralized services.
  (b) Consideration of suggestions from the Department of General Services before new programs or procedures are placed in operation.
  (c) Consideration and development of practical solutions to problems received from state agencies relating to centralized services.
  (d) Development of support of statewide standards and policies created by mutual agreement of the Department of General Services and state agencies.

The council shall serve as an advisory body and make recommendations to the Department of General Services. The members of the council shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed for any actual and necessary expenses incurred in connection with the performance of their duties under this chapter.

The Director of General Services may create special advisory committees to advise the director with regard to specific problems which may arise in providing centralized services to state agencies. The director shall appoint the members thereof and they shall serve at his pleasure. He shall also designate the chairman and vice chairman thereof. The committees shall be under the direction of the director and shall be wholly advisory in character and shall not be delegated any administrative authority or responsibility. Members of such committees shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for any actual and necessary expenses incurred in connection with the performance of their duties under this section. Such committees shall act only in an advisory capacity for the purpose of discussing specific problems relating to providing centralized services and making recommendations in regard thereto to the director.