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HomeMy Public PortalAbout057-1984 - ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT AND AN ECONOMIC GROETH AND DEVELOPMENT BOARDAMENDED ORDINANCE NO. 57-1984 AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT AND AN ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT BOARD, PROVIDING FOR THE COMPOSITOIN OF SUCH ENTITIES AND SETTING FORTH THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF EACH. WHEREAS, it is in the interest of the City of Richmond to create an Economic Growth and Development Department to encourage the orderly development of areas suitable for business and industrial development and to promote the general economic attractiveness and developmnet of the City. NOW THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED by the CommonCouncil of the City of Richmond, Indiana, that SECTION 1. Short Title This Ordinance shall be known and may be cited as the "City of Richmond Economic Growth and Development Ordinance." SECTION 2. Definitions For the purposes of this Ordinance, the following terms phrases, words, and their derivations shall have the meaning given herein. When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present tense include the future, words intthe plural number include the singular number, and words in the singular number include the plural number. The word "shall" is always mandatory and not merely directory. (1) "Board" is the Economic Growth and Development Board of the City as created by this Ordinance. (2) "City" is the City of Richmond. (3) "Council" is the Common Council of the City of Richmond, Indiana. (4) "Department" is the Economic Growth and Development Department of the City as created by this ordinance. (5) "President" is the President of the Economic Growth and Development Board as provided for hereunder. (6) "Secretary" is the Secretary of the Economic Growth and Development Board as provided for hereunder. SECTION 3. Creation of Department (A) A new department to be known and designated as the Department of Economic Growth and Development is created and established with full power and authority to act as provided by law. (B) The Department of Economci Growth and Development shall be under the control of a board of members to be known as the Richmond Economic Growth and Development Board. (C) The Department and Board created by this section is distinguished from the department created by Indiana Code I.C. 36-7-13-1 et seq. SECTION 4. Composition and Appointment-- of Board (a) The board shall consist of nine voting members plus two (2) ex-officio members. Four voting members shall be appointed by the Common Council. Five voting members shall be appointed by the Mayor. The Mayor and the President of Common Council, or his or her designate, shall be ex-officio members of the board. (b) The four members appointed by the Common Council shall be selected from the following representative areas: (1) Education - may come from the administration, faculty, or staff of Richmond Community Schools, Indiana University East, Earlham College, or Indiana Vocational and Technical College, or any other accredited educational facility. (2) Business - may be a local business person. (3) Utility - may come from the administration or staff of Richmond Power and Light, Richmond Gas Corporation, Indiana -American Water Company,,,or General Telephone. (4) One at large member representative of the cra munity. (c) The five voting members appointed by the Mayor shall be selected from the following representative areas: (1) Labor - may be a member of (2) Industry - may be a member of the local industry. a local industrial or trade union. of the administration or staff (3) Finance - may come from the administration or staff of a local bank, savings and loan, or other finance or loan institution. (4) Two at large members representative of the community. (d) Terms of appointment The members of the Economic Growth and Development Board shall take office upon their appointments, and their terms shall run from June 1 after their original appointment, for an initial period of: (i) one year if the member is the representative of the area of education appointed by Council or the labor and at -large representative and an at -large repre- sentative appointed by the Mayor. (ii) two (2) years if the member is the business represent- ative appointed by Council or the industry and at - large representative appointed by the Mayor. (iii) three (3) years if the member si the utility or at - large representative appointed by Council or the finance representative appointed by the Mayor. At the end of the initial period all appointments shall be for three (3) year terms. (e) Vacancies If a person appointed as an Economic Growth and Developmeet Board member fails to take an oath of office within ten (10) days after the notice of his/her appointment is mailed to him/ her, or if any board member, after qualifying, dies,resigns, vacates his/her office, or is removed from office, the new board member shallibe appointed to fill the vacancy in the same manner as the board member in respect to whom the vacancy occurs was appointed. The board member appointed under this Sub -section shall serve for the remainder of the vacated term. (f) Removal of Members The Council, by a two-thirds vote of its membership, shall have the authority to remove any member of the board from office for just cause whenever the best interest of the City shall be served thereby. SECTION 5. An economic growth and development board member is not entitled to any salary, but is entitled to: (1) reimbursement for expenses necessarily incurred in the performance of his/her duties. SECTION 6. An economic growth and development board member shall disclose any pecuniary interest in any employment, financing agreement, or other contract made under this chapter before any action by the Board on it, and shall not vote on any such matter. SECTION 7. Officers Within fifteen (15) days after their appointment, the members of the board shall meet in regular session and organize by electing from their members a President and Secretary. (a) Terms of office - the first President and Secretary shall serve until May 31, 1985. Thereafter, the Board shall elect a President and a Secretary who shall hold office until May 31 of the following year. The Board shall have the authority to elect such other officers as it may deem necessary. SECTION 8. Duties of Officers (a) President, It shall be the duty of the President to preside over meetings of the Board. In his/her absence, a President pro tempore may be elected to preside. (b) Secretary. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to keep a record of all proceedings of the Board, transmit its recommend- ations to the Mayor, Council, Planning Commission, and Economic Growth and ➢evelopment Department and perform such other duties as are usually performed by the Secretary of a deliberative body. SECTION 9. Department Staff The Board shall bave hte Authority to employ and discharge an Executive Director and such other professional and other personnel as it shall deem necessary within the means provided by any appropriations made therefor by the Council. Teh budget of the Department shall be submitted to and approved by Council. SECTION 10. Rules and Procedures The Board shall adopt a set of rules to govern its own meetings and procedures. The rules nay be amended from time to time, but only upon notice to all members that said proposed amendments shall be acted upon at a specified meeting. A majority vote of the Board shall be required for the approval of the proposed amendment. SECTION 11. Meetings (a) Regular Meetings. The Board shall meet periodically at times and places selected by vote of its members. (b) Special Meetings. The President or any three (3) members of the Board shall have the authority to call special meetings of the Board. Written notice of special meetings shall be given to all members. SECTION`_12. Effect of Absence of Members Absence from three (3) consecutive regular meetings without the formal consent of the Board shall be deemed to constitute a re- tirement of a member, and the vacancy thus created shall be filled thereafter by the Council or Mayor by the appointment of a succissor to fill the unexpired term of office. SECTION 13. Powers, Duteis, and Responsibilities The Department, under the supervision of the Board, shall have the following powers, duties, and responsivilities-- (1) Providing overall direction for business recruitment and devel- opment assistance for the City of Richmond, Indiana. (2) Preparation of business development strategies. (3) Individual business recruitment and development assistance. (4) Targeted industreis marketing and development. (5) Such other powers, duties, and responsibilities as the Board deems necessary to carry out the purposes intended. SECTION 14. Committees The Board may create and appoint such committees, sub -committees, and advisory committees composed of its o�•m members and other interested individuals in organizations as the need arises. SECTION 15. Board Limited in Power to Incur Liability Neither the Board nor any member thereof shall incur any financial liability in the name of the City. SECTION 16. Annual Report The Board shall render annually a full report of its work to the Council and Mayor. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Common Council of the City of Richmond, Indiana this 7 & day of 1984. e ent -of'rLebuncil ATTEST: City Clerk PRESENTED by me to the Mayor of the City of Richmond, Indiana, this 8 zC day of , 1984. %Y%Glif.ra City Cl k APPROVED by me, Frank H. Waltermann, Mayor of the City of Richmond, Indiana this F ct day of 1984. 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