A broad base, Borough areawide Community Development Committee
is hereby created and established to function in an advisory capacity
to the Pottstown Borough Council for the purpose of recommending goals
and objectives for housing and community development; review community
development projects; study and make recommendations to Pottstown
Borough on housing goals and objectives for housing and community
development; review community development projects; study and make
recommendations to Pottstown Borough Council on housing goals and
further review the Housing Assistance Plan; and to hold public hearings
for the purpose of implementing "interested citizens input" by receiving,
reviewing and considering community projects and housing goals submitted
by interested citizens to aid and assist the Borough of Pottstown
in the preparation of its application for grant blocks under the Housing
and Community Development Act of 1974.
The said Committee created in this Part shall, within the framework
and guidelines of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974,
make specific recommendations to the Pottstown Borough Council as
to goals and objectives for community development, review and recommend
housing goals to the Borough Council and assist in the formulation
of a Housing Assistance Plan and to further review and make recommendations
to Borough Council on the said Housing Assistance Plan; to review
community development projects as presented by interested citizens
and make further recommendations to Pottstown Borough Council for
inclusion into the Housing and Community Development Plan any and
all community development projects as submitted by interested citizens;
and to ultimately recommend to the Pottstown Borough Council a three-year
plan and one-year Action Plan of the Housing Assistance and Community
Development Block Grant within the purview of the provisions of the
Housing and Community Development Act of 1974.
1.
The said Community Development Committee created in this Part shall
elect from its members its officers, which shall consist of a chairman,
vice chairman and secretary. For the conducting of any meeting, hearing
or taking of any action, a quorum shall consist of 51% of the members
of the said Committee, and a majority vote of members present shall
be required for taking of any formal action of the Community Development
Committee.
2.
Within the limits of funds appropriated by Borough Council, the Community
Development Committee may employ a court reporter and other technical
and clerical services. Legal, professional staffs and clerical staffs
of the Borough Government shall be made available to the Committee
as they shall require. There shall be no compensation for the performance
of the duties of the Community Development Committee members as it
is the hope and desire of the members of the Pottstown Borough Council
that each member shall give of his best efforts and time for public
service.
3.
The said Community Development shall, in addition to holding its
meetings, for the purpose of developing community development projects
as presented by interested citizens or citizen groups, conduct public
hearings. Notice of the said meetings and public hearings shall be
given to the public by publishing notice once in a newspaper of general
circulation within the Borough at least 48 hours prior to the time
of the said meeting and/or public hearing. Said notice shall state
the date, time and place of each meeting and/or public hearing.
The said Community Development Committee shall be a standing
committee until dissolved by the Borough Council and shall file with
the Pottstown Borough Council its first report no later than January
13, 1975, containing all of its findings, conclusions and recommendations
to the ultimate goals and objectives for a community development plan;
community development projects and the order of their priority, to
be accomplished within the next three years, with a recommended one-year
action plan; and to further recommend a housing assistance plan and
to set forth long-term housing goals. It shall be the responsibility
of the Community Development Committee to function and meet throughout
each year so that it will be in a position to file an advisory report
to the Pottstown Borough Council concerning the community development
needs, objectives and goals to enable the Borough Council to properly
prepare and submit on an annual basis its application for block grant
funds.
[Res. 11/11/1974; as amended by Res. 12/9/1974C]
The resolution creating and establishing the broad base, Borough
areawide Community Development Committee is hereby amended to include
the authorization, within the limits of funds appropriated by Borough
Council, for the Community Development Committee to expend all costs
incidental to the preparation of the Community Development Plan, including,
but not limited to, the reasonable costs of stenographic services,
legal services, typing and clerical services, postage, advertising
and copying. The said expenditures to be made by the Pottstown Borough
Council are to be later reimbursed to the Borough from the community
development funds as awarded under the Housing and Community Development
Act of 1974, Block Grants.
