[Ord. No. 937 § 1, 8-16-1983]
The Carrollton Fire Department shall be under the direction
and management of a Board of Directors consisting of five (5) members
to be chosen from the citizens of the Town of Carrollton, at large,
with reference to their fitness and for such office; and no members
of the municipal government or the Volunteer Fire Department shall
be a member of this board.
[Ord. No. 937 § 2, 8-16-1983]
The members of the Board of Directors shall be a politically
non-partisan board appointed by the Council of the Town of Carrollton;
they shall hold office for a term of three (3) years each, or until
their successors are appointed and qualified; with each member given
the privilege or re-appointment subject to the approval of the Town
Council for a consecutive three-year term. Thereafter, that person
shall not serve until the expiration of a period of three (3) years
whereupon said person may be re-appointed to the Board. The Council
may remove any director for misconduct or negligence of duty. All
Board actions are subject to Council.
[Ord. No. 937 § 3, 8-16-1983]
That vacancies in said Board of Directors occasioned by removal,
resignation, death or otherwise, shall be reported to the Council
and be filled in like manner as original appointments, and no director
shall receive compensation as such. Any person appointed by the Council
to fill any vacancy shall hold office for the remainder of the term
to which his/her predecessor was appointed. Any person so appointed
may, at the expiration of said vacancy appointment, be re-appointed
by the Council to one (1) full three-year term.
[Ord. No. 937 § 4, 8-16-1983]
That the Board of Directors shall make and adopt such bylaws
and regulations for their own guidance and for the government of said
Fire Department as may be expedient and consistent with the laws of
the State of Missouri.
[Ord. No. 937 § 5, 8-16-1983]
The Board shall hold regular meetings at least once a month
at the time and place to be fixed by said Board and shall hold additional
meetings upon the call of the President of the Board and shall do
all things necessary to carry out the powers and duties of said Board.
[Ord. No. 937 § 6, 8-16-1983]
The directors shall immediately, after the first day of October
of each year, meet and organize by electing one member president,
and by electing such other officers as they may deem necessary.
[Ord. No. 937 § 7, 8-16-1983]
The Board of Directors shall make, on or before the first Tuesday
in January of each year, an annual report to the Council stating the
condition of their trusts on the first day of January of that year,
the various sums of money received by them and its source and how
much monies have been expended and for what purposes, and the balance
of money on hand as of that time; and at the first meeting in October,
the Board shall present to the Council their estimated budget setting
out their estimate of the funds necessary to satisfactorily operate
and maintain the Fire Department for the coming calendar year.
[Ord. No. 937 § 8, 8-16-1983]
The Chief of the Carrollton Fire Department is hereby made an
ex officio member of said Board of Directors and shall attend all
regular and special meetings of said Board. The Board of Directors
and the Council shall each year appoint a Fire Chief of the Department
from the Volunteer Fire Department and shall have the right to remove
said Chief for good cause shown. Said Chief is to serve under regulations
adopted by the Board of Directors. The Fire Chief shall have the responsibility
of appointing the officers of the Fire Department.
[Ord. No. 937 § 9, 8-16-1983]
No director appointed for a full term, a partial term, or to
fill any vacancy existing, shall receive any compensation for serving
as such.
