[Adopted by Ord. No. 193-2018, 4/11/2018]
This Part is enacted pursuant to authority granted in the Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation Act, Act 177 of 1996 (53 Pa.C.S.A. § 2301 et seq.), as amended, and the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, Act of July 31, 1968, P.L. 805, No. 247, as reenacted and amended (53 P.S. § 10101 et seq.).
By enactment hereof, the Board of Supervisors of the Township of Honey Brook (the "Township") hereby approves entering into the Intergovernmental Cooperative Implementation Agreement for Honey Brook Township and Honey Brook Borough (the "Borough") (said agreement referred to herein as the "agreement"), in substantially the form attached to this Part, and authorizes and directs the Chairman of the Board of Supervisors to execute, and the Secretary of the Township to attest, such agreement.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: The agreement is on file in the Township offices.
The term of the agreement is undefined, and can be terminated by either municipality with two years' notice to the other municipality.
1. 
The purpose of this Intergovernmental Cooperative Implementation Agreement is as follows:
A. 
To support the goals and action items as described and adopted in the Honey Brook Township and Borough Multi-Municipal Comprehensive Plan ("Comprehensive Plan"). These goals and action items are intended to guide and shape new growth, development, and resource conservation within the Borough and Township for the twenty-year planning period and are incorporated here by reference;
B. 
To establish a process for the two municipalities to follow in implementing the Comprehensive Plan through ordinance amendments, review of developments of regional significance and impact, review of other developments in close proximity, and Comprehensive Plan amendments; and
C. 
To establish a process for the two municipalities when considering actions that may not be generally consistent with the Comprehensive Plan.
The Township shall have no direct financial obligations under the agreement. The only costs incurred by the Township shall be its contribution of administrative resources necessary to administer the terms of the agreement and other permitting processes required therein. Rather, any additional review fees required pursuant to this agreement or any ordinance enacted hereunder shall be collected by the Township or the Borough, as appropriate, to cover the other municipality's review costs.
No collaborative entity with separate organizational structure is proposed. Each party to the agreement shall act in its own individual capacity as provided for in the agreement.
No acquisition, management, or disposal of real property or real estate by the Township is authorized.
No new entity has been created by the agreement, and therefore no employees are required. The utilization of municipal consultants to be compensated directly by their respective municipalities is contemplated in the agreement.