City of East Orange, NJ Article VII Real Estate Commission

[Adopted 9-27-1976 by Ord. No. 34-1976 (Ch. 71 of the 1980 City Code)]

§ 14A-29 Commission established; purpose.

There is hereby established in the office of the Mayor a committee which shall be known as the "Real Estate Commission of the City of East Orange," hereinafter referred to as the "Commission," for the purpose of advising the City Council with respect to the sale or retention of property not required for governmental purposes. The Commission's advice shall be in the form of written recommendations, with supporting data, which may include but shall not be limited to any of the following:

A. Recommend the sale of City-owned land.

B. Recommend the leasing of City-owned land.

C. Recommend conditions for the sale or leasing of City-owned land.

D. Recommend the retention of land for future municipal use.

E. Recommend specific "upset" prices to facilitate the sale of City-owned land.

§ 14A-30 Composition of Commission.

The Commission shall be composed of the following persons:

A. A member of the Municipal Council, to be appointed by the Mayor.

B. The Tax Assessor.

C. The Director of Policy, Planning and Development.[1]

[1] Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).

D. The Director of the East Orange Business Development Authority.

E. The Tax Collector.

§ 14A-31 Service without compensation.

All members of the Commission shall serve as such without compensation.

§ 14A-32 Chairman; organization; meetings.

The Commission shall select one of its members to be Chairman and shall adopt such rules of procedure as are necessary to fulfill its purposes as set forth in § 14A-29 above. The Commission shall hold meetings at regular intervals and shall endeavor to advise the Municipal Council with respect to all salable real estate and shall review its recommendations as it shall from time to time deem necessary.

§ 14A-33 Cooperation of other departments and agencies.

All City departments and agencies shall cooperate with the Commission in all respects, including providing the Commission with surveys, photographs and such other documentations as the Commission shall require in the performance of its function.

§ 14A-34 Powers and functions advisory in nature.

The powers and functions of the Commission shall be advisory only, and the Commission shall have no power to make contracts on behalf of the City nor to employ any persons as regular employees or as consultants.

§ 14A-35 Quorum; voting by proxy.

[Added 2-23-1981 by Ord. No. 9-1981; amended 6-19-1982 by Ord. No. 38-1982]

A majority of the Commission as designated in § 14A-30 hereof shall constitute a quorum of the Commission. In the absence of a Commission member, for the purposes of both declaring a quorum and voting, said absent Commission member may delegate by proxy to his designee, who must be a member of his office, the authority to both sit as a temporary Commission member and cast his vote by proxy as if said Commission member himself was present. Said proxy must be delivered in writing to the Commission Chairman and shall be deemed in force and effect until revoked in writing.