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HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrdinance No. 651-91 11-26-1991 . ,r ORDINANCE NO. 6 5 T • AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 13, "ADVISORY BOARDS", OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES, CITY OF RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS, AS AMENDED, BY THE ADDITION THERETO OF A NEW SECTION 6: "CLEAN CITY _ COMMISSION' ; CREATING SAID COMMISSION; PROVIDING FOR APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS TO SAID COMMISSION; SETTING FORTH THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE SAID CLEAN CITY COMMISSION; 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 6: "Clean City Commission", which Section shall hereafter be and read as follows: SECTION 6: CLEAN CITY COMMISSION A. CREATION; QUALIFICATIONS OF MEMBERS • There is hereby created the Richland Hills Clean City Commission. Members of the Commission 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 Commission or by anyone acting in its behalf. B. COMPOSITION APPOINTMENTS AND TERMS OF MEMBERS 1. The Clean City Commission shall be composed of 15 members who shall hold designated places la, lb, lc, 2a, 2b, 2c, 3a, 3b, 3c, 4a, 4b, 4c, Sa, Sb, and Sc. Each council member shall be entitled to nominate persons to serve on said Commission 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 Commission 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. No member shall serve two consecutive full terms. 2. Members of the Commission at the time this ordinance is adopted shall be assigned designated places within their categories by drawing numbers corresponding to the places to be assigned. • ORDINANCE NO. 6 51 PAGE 1 Once assigned a numbered place as provided hereby, the term of each member of the Commission shall be automatically adjusted to correspond • to the term of the councilmember whose numbered place corresponds to the place of the member. 3. The city staff representative to the Commission shall be the Director of Public Works or a designated representative approved by the City Manager. C. VACANCIES: UNEXPIRED TERMS Any vacancy occurring in the membership of the Commission 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 Commission may submit to the City Council recommendations of persons qualified to fill such vacancies. Alternate members of the Commission shall be given first preference by the council for appointment to fill such vacancy. D. OFFICERS The officers of the Commission 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 avice-chairman and a secretary who shall be elected by a majority vote of the members. • E. MEETINGS RULES OF PROCEDURE AND OUORUM The Commission shall hold meetings regularly at least once each month at a time and place designated by majority vote of the members. The Commission 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 Commission 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 Commission'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 Commission, 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 Commission by the affirmative vote of four councilmembers, and shall thereupon proceed to fill the vacancy thereby created in the manner • provided above. ORDINANCE NO. 6 51 PAGE 2 H. POWERS AND DUTIES • The powers and duties of the Commission shall be as follows: 1. Recommend refuse and environmental management policies to the City Council so all city refuse and clean city activities may follow a common purpose; 2. Develop city-wide refuse and environmental policy plan(s); 3. Evaluate city actions in light of that policy; 4. Determine and recommend to the City Council management and program priorities on a city-wide basis; 5. Recommend enforcement and additional program alternatives; 6. Monitor city performance from data collected and examined under the Keep America Beautiful, Inc. Keep America Beautiful System guidelines and make an annual report to the City Council; and 7. Carry out such other tasks as the City Council may designate. 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. J. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR There shall be an Executive Director of the Commission, who shall serve as non-voting secretary of the Commission. Said Executive Director shall be appointed by the City Manager. The Executive Director shall serve in volunteer capacity under the supervision of the City Manager or a designee to implement the provisions of this section. 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. • ORDINANCE NO. 66 5~ PAGE 3 r III. Saving Clause. That Chapters 6 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. IV. 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. 599, codified as Section 8, "Clean City Commission" of Chapter 6, "Health and Sanitation" 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, nays, and abstentions. APPR James R. Truitt, Mayor ATTEST: . i~~ Pauline Kempe, City Secretary APPR D AS TO FORM: , ti aul F. Wienes ie, ity Attorney 18MLIB/bh i ORDINANCE NO. ti 51 PAGE 4