[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Atlantic
City 10-7-1987 by Ord. No. 97-1987. Amendments noted where applicable.]
There is hereby created a regional advisory board to be known
as the "Atlantic City Municipal and Regional Airport Advisory Board."
The board shall consist of nine members. Four members of the
Board shall be appointed by the City Council of the City of Atlantic
City and shall be members of said Council. Three members of the Board
shall be comprised of residents from Egg Harbor Township, Galloway
Township and Hamilton Township, with each municipality providing one
member whose appointment shall be by the Mayor or governing body of
that municipality. These members shall be the voting members of the
Board. In addition thereto, two ex officio members without voting
privileges shall be appointed. One shall be appointed by the Governor
and the other by the Mayor of the City of Atlantic City.
Each voting member of the Board shall serve for a term of three
years, to commence on the first day of July of the year of appointment.
However, the initial terms of the voting members of the Board shall
be as follows: Of the four first appointed by the City Council of
the City of Atlantic City, one shall serve for a term of one year,
one shall serve for a term of two years, and two shall serve for a
term of three years. The first appointment by Galloway Township shall
serve for a term of one year, the first appointment of Hamilton Township
shall serve for two years, and the first appointment for Egg Harbor
Township shall serve for three years. The two ex officio appointments
by the Governor of the State of New Jersey and the Mayor of Atlantic
City, respectively, shall serve one-year terms, to commence on the
first day of July of the year of appointment.
The powers of the Advisory Board shall be vested in the voting
members thereof in office, and a majority of the voting members shall
constitute a quorum at any meeting held by the Board. Action may be
taken and motions or resolutions adopted by the Board at any meeting
by a vote of the majority of the members. No vacancy in the membership
of the Board shall impair the right of a quorum to exercise all the
rights and perform the duties of the Board. The minutes of every meeting
of the Board shall be delivered promptly to the City Clerk of the
City of Atlantic City, who shall forward a copy of the
same to the Mayor of the City of Atlantic City and to the President
of the City Council. No action taken at the meeting by the Board shall
be effective until approved by the Mayor of the City of Atlantic City
or until 10 days after the copy of the minutes shall have been delivered
to the City Clerk. If, in the ten-day period, the Mayor of the City
returns the copy of the minutes with a veto of any action taken by
the Board or any member thereof at the meeting, that action shall
be of no effect. The Mayor of the City of Atlantic City may approve
all or any part of the action taken at that meeting prior to the expiration
of the ten-day period. The Board meeting shall be subject to the provisions
of the Open Public Meetings Act pursuant to N.J.S.A. 10:4-6 et seq.
No member of the Board shall receive any payment or compensation
of any kind from any source, including public, state or municipal
entities, for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this
chapter as a member of the Board. However, nothing in this section
is meant to preclude any of the voting members of the Board to request
from their respective municipalities reimbursement for necessary expenses
incurred in the discharge of their duties. Said expenses shall be
made public at a meeting and set forth in the appropriate minutes.
The Board shall have the following powers in order to advise
the City of Atlantic City and Pan Am World Services, Inc., with the
operation, management and development of the municipal airport at
Pomona, New Jersey, and the conferring of these powers are meant to
be broad in order for the Board to carry out the duties and purposes
of this chapter.
A.
To select a Chairman of the Board by an election to be held between
the seven voting members of the Board and to make and enforce bylaws
and rules of procedure for the carrying out of its meetings and agenda
and how action is to be taken by the Board.
B.
To call to its assistance and avail itself of the services of any
employees of any federal, state or county municipal department, authority
or other agency as it may require and as may be available to it for
its purposes of acquiring information and expertise on the operation,
management and development of the airport facility.
C.
To review any airport master plan developed by the federal government
or any other state, county or municipal agency to determine its impact
on the operation, management and development of the airport facility.
D.
To review and study the zoning ordinances of the municipalities surrounding
the airport facility as to any impact said zoning or land use planning
ordinances or regulations would have on the operation, management
and development of the airport facility.
E.
To conduct public hearings concerning the operation of the airport,
its management and any proposed development or improvements to be
made at the airport facility for the purposes of ascertaining the
position of the general public in those areas.
F.
To adopt formal recommendations of actions to be taken by the City
of Atlantic City and Pan Am World Services, Inc., for the operation,
management, regulation improvement and development of the airport
facility.
Nothing in this chapter shall restrict the governing body of
the City of Atlantic City from dissolving the Advisory Board. The
governing body of the City of Atlantic City may dissolve the Board
without receiving prior consent or approval of any of the municipalities
represented on the Board.
