[Added 6-24-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-10]
There is hereby established an Agriculture Advisory
Committee which shall consist of three members whose terms and powers
are hereinafter set forth.
The Agriculture Advisory Committee shall be
comprised of the following persons:
A.
Three citizens who are residents of the Township,
to be appointed by the Mayor with the consent of the Township Council.
B.
Two of the three citizen members must be actively
engaged in farming and own a portion of the land that they farm.
C.
One of the three citizen members may be selected from
any other Township board or committee.
D.
The Mayor shall select the Chairman of the Agriculture
Advisory Committee. The Committee shall select from among its members
a Vice-Chairman to serve as the presiding officer in the absence of
the Chairman. The Committee shall also select a Secretary whose function
shall be to maintain minutes of the Committee's meeting and records
of the proceedings of the Committee.
The terms of the citizen members shall be for
two years, except that the initial appointments to the Committee shall
be as follows:
A.
The Agriculture Advisory Committee shall report to
the Township of Marlboro Planning Board.
B.
The Agriculture Advisory Committee shall be responsible
for advising and assisting the Township of Marlboro Planning Board
and the Township of Marlboro in meeting the eligibility requirements
of the Farmland Preservation Planning Incentive Grant Program, N.J.S.A.
4:1C-43.1, including, but not limited to:
(1)
Identifying project areas of multiple farms that are
reasonably contiguous and located in an agriculture development area
authorized pursuant to the Agriculture Retention and Development Act,
N.J.S.A. 4:1C-11 et seq.
(2)
Assuring that a dedicated source of funding is maintained for farmland preservation as provided for by Article II of this chapter.
(3)
Preparing a farmland preservation plan element pursuant
to N.J.S.A. 40:55D-28.
(4)
Preparing and overseeing the submission of a completed
application to the State Agriculture Development Committee, including,
among other things, a multiyear plan for the purchase of multiple
farms in a project area and indicating the Township of Marlboro's
annual share of the estimated purchase price.
(5)
Satisfying any other requirements to become and remain
an eligible municipality under the Farmland Preservation Planning
Incentive Grant Program.
C.
The Agriculture Advisory Committee shall oversee,
in consultation with the Township of Marlboro Planning Board and the
Township of Marlboro, the purchase of any development easement pursuant
to the Farmland Preservation Planning Incentive Grant Program.
D.
The Agriculture Advisory Committee shall be charged
with the duty of seeking out other state and federal funding for farmland
preservation and making recommendations to the Township of Marlboro
Planning Board, Mayor and Township Council with regards to achieving
compliance with program guidelines for obtaining funding from such
programs.
The Agriculture Advisory Committee shall hold
public meetings, which public meetings shall be held in accordance
with the Open Public Meetings Act, N.J.S.A. 10:4-6 et seq.
The Agriculture Advisory Committee shall hold its initial organizational meeting within 60 days of the effective date of this Article III.