HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrdinance No. 646-91 11-26-1991 ORDINANCE NO. 6 4 6
. AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 13, "ADVLSORY
BOARDS", OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES, CITY OF
RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS, AS AMENDED, BY THE
ADDITION THERETO OF ANEW SECTION 3: "LIBRARY
ADVISORY BOARD"; CREATING SAID BOARD; PROVIDING
FOR APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS TO SAID BOARD;
SETTING FORTH THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE SAID
LIBRARY ADVISORY BOARD; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE; PROVIDING A SAVING CLAUSE; REPEALING
CONFLICTING ORDINANCES; AND PROVIDING AN
EFFECTIVE DATE.
Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Richland Hills, Texas:
I.
That CHAPTER 13: "Advisory Boards" of the Code of Ordinances, City of
Richland Hills, Texas, as amended, be hereby amended by the addition of a new
Section 3: "Library Advisory Board", which Section shall hereafter be and read as
follows:
SECTION 3: LIBRARY ADVISORY BOARD
A. CREATION: QUALIFICATIONS OF MEMBERS
• There is hereby created the Richland Hills Library Advisory Board.
Members of the Board shall be registered voters within the City on the
date of their appointment. No member may serve on more than one other
Richland Hills board, commission or committee. All members shall serve
without compensation. No debts of any kind or character shall be made
or incurred by the Board or by anyone acting in its behalf.
B. COMPOSITION, APPOINTMENTS AND TERMS OF MEMBERS
1. The Library Advisory Board shall be composed of 5 members who
shall hold designated places numbered 1 through 5. Each council member
shall be entitled to nominate persons to serve on said board in the
numbered place corresponding to the numbered place on the City Council
held by said council member. All nominations shall be approved unless
rejected by the affirmative vote of four councilmembers. Members of
the Board shall serve terms of two years, corresponding to the term of
the council member whose place corresponds to the numbered place held
by the individual member.
2. Members of the Board at the time this ordinance is adopted shall be
assigned their designated places by drawing numbers corresponding to the
places to be assigned.
Once assigned a numbered place as provided hereby, the term of
each member of the Board shall be automatically adjusted to correspond
to the term of the councilmember whose numbered place corresponds to
• the place of the member.
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3. The city staff representative to the Board shall be the library
director or a designated representative approved by the City Manager.
• C. VACANCIES: UNEXPIRED TERMS
Any vacancy occurring in the membership of the Board shall be filled by
appointment and approval of the City Council, in the same manner as
provided above for appointment of members for full terms, for the
remainder of the unexpired term of the member whose place becomes
vacant. The Board may submit to the City Council recommendations of
persons qualified to fill such vacancies. Alternate members of the Board
shall be given first preference by the council for appointment to fill such
vacancy.
D. OFFICERS
The officers of the Board shall be a chairman, who shall be elected by a
majority vote of the members at their first organizational meeting, and
thereafter when the incumbent chairman shall leave office for any reason
and avise-chairman and a secretary who shall be elected by a majority
vote of the members.
E. MEETINGS. RULES OF PROCEDURE AND OUORUM
The Board shall hold meetings regularly at least once every other month
at a time and place designated by majority vote of the members. The
Board shall, in matters of procedure, be governed by Robert's Rules of
Order, and may adopt such additional rules of procedure as it may deem
• necessary. A majority of the members shall constitute a quorum for the
transaction of business.
F. MINUTES AND ATTENDANCE REPORTS SUBMITTED TO THE COUNCIL
The secretary shall keep minutes of all proceedings of the Board and shall
submit said minutes, following each meeting, to the City Secretary. Said
minutes shall become a part of the City Council's informational reports.
The secretary shall also keep attendance records on each member for
submission to the City Council along with the Board's minutes and will
make specific notation if a member misses two consecutive meetings.
Members must attend at least 75% of all meetings of the Board, based on
a 12 month period beginning June 1 of each year.
G. REMOVAL OF MEMBERS
The City Council may remove for good cause any member or members of
the Board by the affirmative vote of four councilmembers, and shall
thereupon proceed to fill the vacancy thereby created in the manner
provided above.
H. POWERS AND DUTIES
The powers and duties of the Board shall be as follows:
• To advise the City Council on all matters pertaining to
• the Library of the City.
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I. APPLICATIONS
• Any person wishing to be considered for appointment to this or any other
board, commission or committee of the City shall complete and file an
application therefor with the City Secretary, on forms supplied by the
City. The City Secretary shall maintain all such applications for a period
of two (2) years after their filing, for consideration by any
councilmember considering an appointment to any city board, commission
or committee.
II.
Severability Clause. That it is hereby declared to be the intention of the City
Council that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this
ordinance are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of
this ordinance shall be declared invalid or unconstitutional by the valid judgment or
decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity or unconstitutionality
shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and
sections of this ordinance, since the same would have been enacted by the City
Council without the incorporation in this ordinance of any such invalid or
unconstitutional phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section.
III.
Saving Clause. That Chapters 1 and 13 of the Code of Ordinances, City of
Richland Hills, Texas, as amended, shall remain in full force and effect, save and
except as amended by this ordinance.
• 1V.
Effective Date. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after
its passage and publication as provided by the Richland Hills City Charter and the
laws of the State of Texas.
V.
Repealer. Ordinance No. 318-A, codified as Subsection D, "Library Board" of
Section 10, "Library" of Chapter 1, "General Provisions" of the Code of Ordinances,
City of Richland Hills, Texas, is hereby repealed.
PRESENTED, GIVEN FIRST READING AND APPROVED at a regular meeting
of the Richland Hills City Council on the 26 day of NOV 1991, by a vote
of ~ ayes, 0 nays, and 0 abstentions.
APP OVE
James R. Truitt, Mayor
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ATTEST:
Pauline Kempe, City S cretary
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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aul F. W eneskie, City Attorney
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