In order to achieve a greater degree of safety to life and property in the City of Weatherford, there is hereby created a commission to be known as "City Emergency Service Commission", and hereinafter referred to as commission.
[Amended 6-30-2004, Ordinance 2004-6 § 1]
The City Emergency Service Commission shall consist of 12 members. The members are: Chief of Police, Deputy Emergency Management Director, Mayor, Fire Chief, Municipal Hospital Administrator, City Building Official, City Street Superintendent, City Water Superintendent, representative from Ambulance Service, Superintendent of Weatherford Public Schools, City Maintenance Supervisor, and Director of Public Safety of Southwestern Oklahoma State University. All members shall serve without compensation, but shall be allowed all necessary expenses actually incurred while in the performance of their official duties, when such expenditures are approved by the Board of Commissioners.
The commission shall elect annually from among its members a chairman, vice- chairman and secretary. It shall adopt, and may amend from time to time, such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the State of Oklahoma and charter and ordinances of the city, for its own organization and procedure and transaction of official business, as it may deem proper. It shall hold regular meetings and shall keep a public record of its proceedings.
[Amended 6-30-2004, Ordinance 2004-6 § 2]
The duties of the commission shall be to make a detailed and comprehensive study of unsafe conditions within the municipality and to prepare plans and recommendations as will eliminate or reduce unsafe conditions; to foster educational programs designed to make the public more safety conscious; to conduct safety campaigns as in their judgment will assist reducing accidents within the city; to cooperate with county, state and federal authorities, departments and agencies, in matters pertaining to or affecting the safety of the public within the city.
The commission shall, when called upon to do so by the Board of Commissioners, make reports to the board on all matters considered by the commission and any recommendations of the commission upon the matters considered, and shall recommend legislation as may be necessary to carry out the recommendations and suggestions of the commission.