There is hereby created a Senior Citizen Advisory Board for the City
of Hackensack. The membership of the Board shall consist of nine persons who
are residents of the city. The members of the Board shall be appointed by
the City Council.
The Board members first appointed shall be appointed for the following
terms: three members for three years, three members for two years and three
members for one year. Following the initial appointments, all appointments
shall be for three years, and vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired
term only. The members shall receive no compensation for their services. With
the exception of the Board members first appointed, the terms of office of
each appointee shall commence on the first day of January and shall expire
on the 31st day of December of the appropriate years. The Board members first
appointed, as aforesaid, shall also serve from the date of their respective
appointments through and including December 31, 1989, at which time the term
of years of their full appointments shall be deemed to commence.
With the exception of the Chairperson, who shall be designated annually
by the Mayor and Council, the Board shall choose its own officers, make its
own rules and regulations for the discharge of its duties and for the proper
exercise of the powers conferred upon it by the Mayor and Council and keep
a record of its proceedings. The Board shall meet at least quarterly, but
as frequently as may be provided for in its rules and regulations and as circumstances
may require.
The duties of the Senior Citizen Advisory Board shall be to:
A. Study and evaluate, on an ongoing basis, those programs
and services provided by the city which impact primarily or substantially
upon senior citizens.
B. Make recommendations to the Mayor and Council and the
City Manager for the improvement of such existing programs and services and
the addition of any new programs and services it deems reasonable and appropriate.
C. Prepare such advisory reports and perform such other
duties as may from time to time be requested by the Mayor and Council concerning
city services, programs and policies which are the subject of consideration
or evaluation by the City Council.
D. Advise and assist individual senior citizens and private
senior citizens' groups as to the existence of city programs and services
available.
E. Entertain public proposals and suggestions and articulate
the same to the Mayor and Council.
In the event that any member of the Board shall miss three consecutive
meetings, the Board shall report said absences to the Mayor and Council. If
the Mayor and Council, after due inquiry, are satisfied that the absences
where not occasioned by reasonable cause, the Board Member may be removed
by resolution of the Mayor and Council.