There is hereby created a committee which shall be known as the "Infrastructure Committee of the Township of Spring."
[Adopted 7-26-2004 by Ord. No. 308 (Ch. I, Part 3C, of the 2013 Code of Ordinances)]
[Amended 5-29-2007 by Ord. No. 339; 12-9-2019 by Ord. No. 443]
The Committee shall have five voting members, one of whom shall be the Director of Public Works; not more than two nor less than one member(s) of the Board of Supervisors and/or the Township Manager; not more than two nor less than one member(s) of the Township of Spring Planning Commission; and any remaining member(s) shall be Township resident(s) and/or Township Taxpayer(s).
The Committee's members shall be appointed by the Board of Supervisors of the Township of Spring.
All members of the Committee shall serve for one year. The initial members shall be appointed effective August 1, 2004 through December 31, 2004. All subsequent members' term shall commence on January 1st and end on December 31 of each year. The Township of Spring Board of Supervisors may have the discretion and power to remove and replace any voting member during their term.
The Committee shall be responsible to the Board of Supervisors of the Township of Spring and shall review and recommend action to be taken regarding curb, sidewalk, storm sewer, drainage, sanitary sewer, water, street, lighting, communications fixtures, or any other infrastructure matter.
The Board of Supervisors of the Township of Spring shall appropriate, annually, such monies as the Board of Supervisors of the Township of Spring determines to be necessary for the Committee to fulfill its mandate ordained herein. Initial term (August 1 - December 31, 2004) costs and monies will be drawn from existing appropriate Township budgets as needed with approval of the Township Supervisors.
Upon initial organization, the Infrastructure Committee will elect one Chairperson and Vice Chairperson. The Infrastructure Committee will meet at such time and place as to be determined by the Committee.
The Infrastructure Committee will be directly supported by the Township of Spring Director of Public Works, Director of Engineering Services, Director of Parks and Recreation, Fire Chief and any other Township employee as deemed appropriate by the Township of Spring Board of Supervisors. Minutes will be taken by an internal Township of Spring employee as determined by the Board of Supervisors. Solicitor services (on an as needed basis) will be supported by the current Township of Spring Solicitor's firm for the Board of Supervisors meetings.
The Infrastructure Committee will establish and maintain a five-year Capital Plan with an annual Capital Budget commencing with the Fiscal Year January 1, 2005 - December 1, 2005.
If any sentence, clause, or section of this article is for any reason found to be unconstitutional, illegal or invalid, such unconstitutionality, illegality or invalidity shall not affect or impair any of the remaining provisions, sentences, clauses or sections of this article. It is hereby declared as the intent of the Board of Supervisors that this article would have been adopted had such unconstitutional, illegal or invalid sentence, clause, or section thereof not been included herein.