[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Haddon Heights 9-15-2020 by Ord. No. 1494. Amendments noted where applicable.]
In order to build and improve community aesthetics, foster civic pride, and support the economic development of our community in order to increase the welcoming feel of Haddon Heights through ongoing beautification efforts as well as achieve certain goals, such as keeping Station Avenue and the adjacent downtown areas and Borough gateway location areas free of litter through the involvement of other civic groups with an emphasis on involving our community's youth organizations, creating and maintaining a feeling of comfort through planting and maintenance of our green spaces and streetscapes and to assist, wherever possible, with the maintenance of benches, fountains, gazebos and the like where possible, there is hereby created the Heights Grows Committee.
A. 
The Heights Grows Committee so created shall consist of five regular members, all of whom shall be residents of the Borough of Haddon Heights as well as a member of the Borough Council who shall be a nonvoting member and shall serve as a liaison thereto.
B. 
The Heights Grows Committee shall select from its regular members one member to serve as its Chairperson and one member to serve as its Vice Chairperson. The Chairperson and Vice Chairperson so chosen shall serve for periods of one year.
A. 
The members of the Heights Grows Committee shall be appointed by the Mayor with the advice and consent of Council in a manner consistent with the appointment process provided for by boroughs under state law. Each member shall be appointed for a term of three years, with the exception of the Council Liaison, who shall be appointed for a one-year term.
B. 
The term of the regular members shall be for three years each. The term of the regular members shall begin on January 1 of the year of their appointment and expire on December 31 of the third year after the year of their appointment. However, the following terms shall apply for the first appointments of the regular members made to the Committee:
(1) 
Member No. 1: from the date of appointment to December 31, 2020.
(2) 
Member No. 2: from the date of appointment to December 31, 2020.
(3) 
Member No. 3: from the date of appointment to December 31, 2021.
(4) 
Member No. 4: from the date of appointment to December 31, 2021.
(5) 
Member No. 5: from the date of appointment to December 31, 2022.
C. 
A vacancy occurring other than by expiration of the term shall be filled for the unexpired term only. Members shall serve for their respective terms and until their successors are thereafter appointed and qualified.
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All members shall possess the same rights, duties and powers.
E. 
Each member and officer of the Committee shall, before assuming office, take and subscribe an oath that he/she will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of his/her office.
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 expenditure of funds.
The Heights Grows Committee created by this chapter shall review and advise the governing body on impacts to the Borough to the Borough government. The Committee shall work in a manner consistent with its intended purpose as set forth in § 14-1.
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.