[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors
of the Township of Palmer 6-24-2014 by Ord. No. 2014-430. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
A Palmer Township standing committee to be known as the "Palmer
Township Parks and Recreation Advisory Board" is hereby established.
[Amended 10-14-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-455]
A.
The Palmer Township Parks and Recreation Advisory Board shall consist
of five members appointed by the Board of Supervisors of Palmer Township.
The members shall each serve for a term of five years, except that
the terms of the members first appointed shall be staggered so that
two vacancies shall occur on December 31 in each of the next two successive
years and three vacancies shall occur on December 31 in the third
year successive of such appointment. The Palmer Township Parks and
Recreation Advisory Board Chair shall promptly notify the Board of
Supervisors concerning any vacancy on the Board.
B.
A member of the Palmer Township Parks and Recreation Advisory Board
must attend all meetings. The absence of a member for 20% of all meetings
may be deemed nonfeasance in office, and such member may be considered
inactive and just cause for removal by a majority vote of the Board
of Supervisors taken after the member has received 15 days' advance
notice of the intent to take such a vote. Said removal shall be in
compliance with the requirements of applicable laws and regulations.
The purpose and duties of the Palmer Township Parks and Recreation
Advisory Board are to advise and make recommendations to the Director
of the Department of Parks and Recreation in the planning, regulation
of, and maintenance of parks, recreation facilities, and recreational
programs based upon such written goals and objectives established
by the Palmer Township Board of Supervisors. The Advisory Board shall
also provide advice and recommendations to the Director of the Department
of Parks and Recreation on all park and recreation capital planning/budgetary
items, as well as oversight of the planning process for all updates
to the Palmer Township Parks and Recreation Plan.
The Board shall elect its own Chair and Vice Chair and shall
create and fill such other offices from its membership as it may determine.
Officers shall serve annual terms and may succeed themselves.
A.
Annual meeting. An annual organization meeting shall be held on the
third Tuesday in January.
B.
Nominations. At the annual organization meeting, members shall make nominations, and the election of officers specified in § 27-5 shall follow immediately thereafter.
C.
Term. A candidate receiving a majority vote of the entire membership
of the committee shall be declared elected and shall serve for one
year until his or her successor shall take office.
D.
Vacancies. Vacancies in office shall be filled immediately by regular
election procedure.
A.
Meetings shall be held monthly on a regularly scheduled day and time
agreed to by a majority vote of the Board at the Board's annual reorganization
meeting, subject to approval by the Board of Supervisors. All meetings
will be held at the Charles Chrin Community Center located at 4100
Green Pond Road in Palmer Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
In the event of a conflict with holidays or other scheduled events,
a majority of the Board may change the date and/or location of its
meeting, and any such change shall be publicly advertised in a newspaper
of general circulation. A schedule of meeting dates for any year shall
be published in a newspaper of general circulation in January of said
year.
B.
Public meetings. All meetings shall be open to the general public.
C.
Conduct of meetings. Unless otherwise specified, Robert's Rules of
Order, Latest Edition, shall govern the proceedings at meetings of
the Advisory Board.
Any member of the Palmer Township Parks and Recreation Advisory
Board, once qualified and appointed, may be removed from the Board
by majority vote of the Board of Supervisors. The vote of the Board
of Supervisors may be taken after the member has received 15 days'
advance notice of the intent to take such a vote. Any appointment
to fill a vacancy created by removal shall be only for the unexpired
term.
All members, in order to discharge their official duties, shall
be required to vote on all matters brought before the Palmer Township
Parks and Recreation Advisory Board unless such vote would result
in a conflict of interest. In such a case, said member shall abstain
from voting and, prior to the vote being taken, publicly announce
and disclose the nature of his or her interest as a public record
in a written statement filed with the person responsible for recording
the minutes of the meeting at which the vote is taken; provided that
whenever the Board would be unable to take any action on a matter
before it because the number of members of the Board required to abstain
from voting under this section makes the majority or other legally
required vote of approval unattainable, then such member shall be
required to vote if disclosures are made as otherwise provided.
This ordinance does hereby repeal and supersede prior ordinances
and resolutions which are inconsistent with the provisions of this
ordinance.
