Boards

Disability Services Board (South Hampton Roads)

Purpose
The South Hampton Roads Disability Services Board (DSB) is a consortium of localities comprised of the Cities of Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Norfolk and Suffolk. DSB's throughout the state provide additional services in three major areas: (1) the Rehabilitative Services Incentive Fund provides subgrants to agencies either expanding existing services or providing new ones for the disabled community; (2) DSB's are required to conduct a regional needs assessment to determine what the high priority needs are for the disabled in their community; and (3) the DSB acts as a clearinghouse for questions on the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Members

• Geraldine Diggs, Business Representative
• William Freeman, Consumer Representative
• Vacant, Citizen Representative
• Vacant, Staff Representative

Liason
William Heath, Chairman
1521 #A Myrtle Avenue
Chesapeake, VA 23325

Library Board

Purpose
To serve as advisory board to the City Council on all matters pertaining to library services.

Members

• Nancy Creekmore
• Ernestine Langston
• Pam Hill
• Carolyn O. Epps White
• Sandra Nee
• Sue Nichols
• Barabara Banze
• Judith Stone

Liason
Elliot Drew, Library Director
(757) 514- 7323

Local Board of Building Code Appeals

Purpose
To act on applications for appeals of building related codes concerning new construction and existing structures.

Members

• Mitchell Wilcox, Chairman
• Mark Brinkley
• Jesse E. Canada, III
• Yok Kong Chiang
• Randy Brock
• William Flythe
• Rebecca Habel

Liason
Wayne Whitehurst, Building Official
(757) 514-4156

Paul D. Camp Community College Board

Purpose
To assure that the community college is responsive to the needs existing within its region in regard to statewide policies, procedures and regulations of the State Board.

Members

• Jean Copeland
• J. Samuel Glasscock
• Kermit Hobbs
• Richard Brooks

Website
Paul D. Camp Community College

Liason
Paul W. Conco, President, PDCCC
(757) 569- 6712

Welfare Advisory Board

Purpose
To be interested in all matters pertaining to the social welfare of the people in Suffolk, making recommendations to the Department of Social Services, to develop an annual report for the City Council concerning the administration of the Department of Social Services and submitting reports to Council from time to time as appropriate.

Members

• Catherine Jones
• Gloria Colbert
• Barbara Artis
• Mary W. Copeland
• Jeffrey Anthony Perkins
• Lula B. Holland
• Vacant
• Vacant

Liason
Leonard Horton, Director of Social Services
(757) 514- 7450

Western Tidewater Community Services Board

Purpose
To act as the agent of the City of Suffolk, City of Franklin, Isle of Wight County and Southampton County.

Members

• Margaret W. Jones
• Rachel Lewis
• Charles G. Hearn

Liason
Demetrios Peratsakis, Executive Director
(757) 255-7100

Wetlands Board

Purpose
To preserve the wetlands and to prevent their despoliation and to accommodate necessary economic development in a manner consistent with wetlands preservation.

Members

• C. Robert Johnson, III
• Ronald Dean Jordan
• Brad O'Berry
• Geoffrey C. Hinshelwood
• Mark J. Butler IV
• John R. Ellison, III
• Jeffrey Colley
• Steven R. Barnum, Alternate
• David Thacker Joyner, Alternate

Website
Suffolk Wetlands Board

Liason
Brian Alperin, Principal Planner
(757) 514-4062