There is hereby established an Agriculture Advisory
Committee which shall consist of three members whose terms and powers
are hereinafter set forth.
The Agriculture Advisory Committee shall be
comprised of the following persons:
A. Three citizens who are residents of the Township,
to be appointed by the Mayor with the consent of the Township Council.
B. Two of the three citizen members must be actively
engaged in farming and own a portion of the land that they farm.
C. One of the three citizen members may be selected from
any other Township board or committee.
D. The Mayor shall select the Chairman of the Agriculture
Advisory Committee. The Committee shall select from among its members
a Vice-Chairman to serve as the presiding officer in the absence of
the Chairman. The Committee shall also select a Secretary whose function
shall be to maintain minutes of the Committee's meeting and records
of the proceedings of the Committee.
The terms of the citizen members shall be for
two years, except that the initial appointments to the Committee shall
be as follows:
A. Two citizen members for a one-year term.
B. One citizen member for a two-year term.
The Agriculture Advisory Committee shall hold
public meetings, which public meetings shall be held in accordance
with the Open Public Meetings Act, N.J.S.A. 10:4-6 et seq.
The Agriculture Advisory Committee shall hold its initial organizational meeting within 60 days of the effective date of this Article
III.