[Ord. No. 896 §1, 1-7-2002]
The City of Caruthersville does hereby find and determine that
it is necessary to establish a Board of Trustees to manage the Caruthersville
Life Care Center. The Board of Trustees shall consist of five (5)
trustees who shall be citizens of the City and who shall serve without
compensation. The Board shall be known as the Board of Trustees of
the Caruthersville Life Care Center.
[Ord. No. 896 §2, 1-7-2002]
The Mayor of the City of Caruthersville, with the approval of
the City Council, shall appoint five (5) trustees to the Board of
Trustees of the Caruthersville Life Care Center. All trustees shall
be citizens of the City of Caruthersville and shall be chosen with
reference to their fitness for such position; provided no member of
the City Council and no member of the immediate family of a member
of the City Council shall be a member of the Board.
[Ord. No. 896 §3, 1-7-2002]
A. Two (2) of the trustees first (1st) appointed under Section
120.630 above shall hold office for terms of four (4) years, and the remaining trustees first (1st) appointed shall hold office respectively for a term of one (1), two (2) and three (3) years as indicated in the order of the Mayor appointing them; thereafter each member shall be appointed for a term of four (4) years.
B. Vacancies
on the Board shall be filled in the same manner provided herein for
appointment of members. Any person appointed to fill a vacancy on
the Board shall serve for the unexpired portion of the original term.
[Ord. No. 896 §4, 1-7-2002]
A trustee may be removed for crimes, misconduct, habitual drunkenness,
willful neglect of duty, corruption in office, incompetency or oppression
in office or for breach of standards required of a fiduciary in connection
with managing and operating the facility hereunder by a majority vote
of the Council if the removal is recommended by the Mayor or by a
two-thirds (⅔) vote of the Council if the Mayor has not recommended
removal of the trustee; but such trustee shall be removed only after
first being given a copy of the charges at least ten (10) days prior
to the hearing thereon at which he shall have an opportunity to be
heard and present witnesses. A record of the proceedings, together
with the charges and findings thereon, shall be maintained and filed
in the office of the Clerk.
[Ord. No. 896 §5, 1-7-2002]
The Board shall meet and organize by electing one (1) of their
members President and one (1) Secretary and by the election of such
other officers as they may deem necessary. They shall make and adopt
such bylaws, rules and regulations for the management of such facility
and the admission and discharge of patients as they shall deem expedient.
[Ord. No. 896 §6, 1-7-2002]
The Board shall control the expenditures of all monies credited
to the fund established for such facility and the acquisition, construction,
leasing, equipping, operating and maintaining of the facility and
the grounds and other property real and personal belonging to the
facility; provided all monies from any source, including donations,
shall be deposited in the City Treasury to the credit of that facility's
fund and drawn upon by the vouchers of the proper officers of such
Board. The Board shall also employ such help, professional and otherwise,
as may be necessary to carry out the spirit and intent of this Article,
and all such assistants and employees shall serve at the pleasure
of the Board.
[Ord. No. 896 §7, 1-7-2002]
All obligations incurred in connection with the acquisition,
ownership, operating and maintaining of the facility and grounds and
other property, real and personal, under control of the Board shall
be payable only from the fund established for such facility and the
assets under control of the Board.
[Ord. No. 896 §8, 1-7-2002]
The Board shall make on or before the second (2nd) Monday in
June of each year a detailed report to the City Council showing the
receipts of all funds and the expenditures therefrom and showing each
donation and amount thereof.
[Ord. No. 896 §9, 1-7-2002]
Any person making bequests or donations to such facility shall
have the right to vest the title to the real estate or personal property
so bequeathed or donated in the Board and to be held and controlled
by the Board, and to all such property the Board shall be held to
be special trustees.
[Ord. No. 2018-04, 5-21-2018]
A. There
is hereby created an economic development tax board to be known as
the "Economic Development Tax Board of the City of Caruthersville,
Missouri" (the "Tax Board"). The Tax Board shall serve as an advisory
board to the City as it relates to the consideration of an economic
development tax plan in connection with the imposition of the economic
development sales tax in accordance with the Economic Development
Sales Tax Act. The City Council hereby authorizes and approves the
exercise by the Tax Board of only those powers that are required by
the Economic Development Sales Tax Act to be exercised by the Tax
Board, as follows:
1. The Tax Board shall hold public hearings and give notices pursuant
to Section 67.1305.13 of the Economic Development Sales Tax Act on
proposed economic development tax plans, economic development projects
or designations of economic development areas and any amendments thereto.
2. The Tax Board shall vote on all proposed economic development tax
plans, economic development projects or designations of economic development
areas and any amendments thereto, within 30 days following completion
of a hearing on any such plan, project, designation or amendment and
shall make recommendations to the City within 90 days of a hearing
referred to in Section 67.1305.13 of the Economic Development Sales
Tax Act concerning adoption of or amendment to economic development
tax plans, economic development projects or designations of economic
development areas.
[Ord. No. 2018-04, 5-21-2018]
A. The
Tax Board shall consist of 5 members, 3 of whom shall be appointed
by the Mayor with the consent of a majority of the City Council, and
2 of whom shall be appointed as provided in the Economic Development
Sales Tax Act. The members appointed by the Mayor shall serve initial
terms of 2 years, and the remaining members shall be designated to
serve for a term of 4 years from the date of such initial appointments.
Thereafter, the members appointed shall serve for a term of 4 years,
except that all vacancies shall be filled for unexpired terms in the
same manner as were the original appointments. The appropriate officials
of the City are hereby directed to provide notice to Pemiscot County
and the Caruthersville School District No. 18 of the establishment
of the Tax Board in the manner required by the Economic Development
Sales Tax Act.
B. The
Tax Board shall elect from among its members a Chairman, Vice Chairman
and Secretary. Meetings of the Tax Board shall be open to the public
to the extent provided by law, and a record shall be kept of each
meeting. The City Clerk shall serve as the custodian of records of
the Tax Board. The Tax Board may establish rules and procedures not
in conflict with City ordinances or policies or the Economic Development
Sales Tax Act and shall meet as required to fulfill its obligations
set forth in the Economic Development Sales Tax Act.
[Ord. No. 2018-04, 5-21-2018]
The appropriate officials of the City are hereby directed to
assist the Tax Board in a manner necessary to insure that the Tax
Board fulfills its reporting obligations as set forth in the Economic
Development Sales Tax Act.