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. . 2. The client/a?plicant and the LAAP Director within 10 days of wTitten notice must initiate efforts in consultation to solve the dilemma. I 3. If satisfaction is not achieved, the client/applicant or LAAP Director can appeal to the LAAP Policy Committee statingche problem in writing. Within 10 days of this app~l a date must be established for a hearing of the facts and a decision will be rendered. 4. If acceptable finality to all parties from the tAAP FolicyCo~ttee is not achieved then an appeal can be made to the Executive COlllIlIittee of the CAA whose decision will be final. This appeaL must be filed in writing within 10 days of the LAAF PAC's deciSion and. a hearing date scheduled within an additional 10 day period. 5. All appeal procedures will be conducted in a non-legal. manner with parties involved presenting any information they be1.ie:ve relavaut to the case. The party initiating the action will proceed first followed bY~the other party in ~he case. IV. POLICY ADVISORY COMMITTEE (PAC) A. Rationale: I An autonaIJlous policy-making board separate frOlll the governing b,ody of the eAA is a safe-guard prerequisite to insure independence and responsible functioning of the LAAP. The PAC will provide general. operational guidelines and act as a first line appeal body ror de- cisions concerning eligibility, terminatioA. ~nd'quality of services. B. Composition: The Policy Advisory COlllIllittee will be c=posed of nine members of which four should be truly represeAtative of the poor. two other rept"esentatives should be practicing attorneys,cnr judges in the community, two should be- representatives of the ,Southwe.$<C Texas. Stat~- University with the other memhe'l:' being any otherlllember of the community at 'large. ~. C. Method or Selection: 1. Four Representatives of the Poor: To be elected by the neighborhood organizations of Victoria T ~ II (1), Mitchell-Dunbar (1), Wallace (1), and the Public Housing residents (1).