In order to make Haddon Heights Borough more business friendly
and promote commercial activity and growth within the Borough, to
analyze, advise the governing body on how to promote business, there
is hereby established and created by this chapter a committee to be
known as the "Business Advisory Committee of the Borough of Haddon
Heights."
The members and officers of the Committee shall serve without
compensation, but each shall receive reimbursement for actual disbursements
for expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.
A majority of the members (three of five) shall constitute a
quorum of the Committee.
To effectuate its purposes, the Committee shall have the power
to adopt suitable bylaws for the management of its affairs and to
determine the qualifications and duties of its employees and to fix,
subject to the budget for the Committee as adopted by the Borough
Council, the compensation to be paid to any of its employees.
The Business Advisory Committee created by this chapter shall
review and advise the governing body on impacts to businesses and
the business environment from ordinances, zoning, regulations and
administrative functions of the Borough government. The Committee
shall make recommendations for changes that would assist businesses
to be successful and grow within the Borough; study and analyze the
surrounding municipalities and advise of best practices that promote
commercial activity.
The Committee shall not have any powers other than those set
forth and especially shall have no power to pledge the credit of the
municipality or to enter into contracts or to otherwise create debts,
except as herein authorized, and shall operate within the appropriation
made by the Borough Council in its annual budget. The Committee shall
make an annual report to the municipality during December of each
year setting forth, in detail, its operations and recommendations
covering the preceding 12 months.