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.
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 §Â
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.