There is hereby established within the Township of Jefferson an Open
Space Advisory Committee.
The purposes of the Committee shall be as follows:
A. To recommend to the Mayor and Council and to identify
properties or areas within the Township of Jefferson which would be suitable
to be established and used as permanent open space.
B. To recommend to the Mayor and Council and to identify
sources of funding for the purchase, condemnation, acquisition and maintenance
of open space within the Township of Jefferson.
C. To recommend to the Mayor and Council in what manner
any open space within the Township shall be utilized.
[Amended 4-1-1998 by Ord. No. 10-98; 12-18-2002
by Ord. No. 31-02]
The Open Space Advisory Committee in the Township of Jefferson shall
consist of 11 members, consisting of one Council representative, who shall
also be a voting member, one liaison member from the Township Administration,
who shall be a nonvoting member, one liaison member from the Environmental
Commission of the Township, who shall be a nonvoting member, and eight citizens
of the Township. The citizen members shall be appointed by the Township Council.
The Council representative, the liaison member from the Township Administration
and the member from the Environmental Commission shall serve for a period
of one year with the Council member being appointed by the Council, the liaison
member of the Township Administration by the Mayor and the member from the
Environmental Commission appointed by the Environmental Commission. The initial
appointment of the citizen members shall be three citizen members for one
year, whose terms shall expire December 31, 2003, three citizen members for
two years, whose terms shall expire December 31, 2004, and two citizen members
for three years, whose terms shall expire December 31, 2005. Thereafter, the
terms of the citizen members shall be for three years each.