File #: 4831    Version: 0 Name: Repealing Section 9501 JaCo Code (Freedom Memorial Wall Commission)
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 3/17/2016 In control: County Legislature
On agenda: 3/21/2016 Final action: 3/21/2016
Title: AN ORDINANCE repealing section 9501., Jackson County Code, 1984, relating to the Freedom Memorial Wall Commission and enacting, in lieu thereof, one new section relating to the same subject.
Sponsors: Alfred Jordan
Indexes: FREEDOM MEMORIAL WALL COMMISSION , JACKSON COUNTY CODE
Code sections: Section 9501 - Jackson County Code, 1984
Attachments: 1. 4831adopted.pdf

                     IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

 

 

Title

AN ORDINANCE repealing section 9501., Jackson County Code, 1984, relating to the Freedom Memorial Wall Commission and enacting, in lieu thereof, one new section relating to the same subject.

 

 

Intro

ORDINANCE NO. 4831, March 21, 2016

 

INTRODUCED BY Alfred Jordan, County Legislator

 

 

Body

 BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, as follows:

 

Section A.  Enacting Clause.  Section 9501., Jackson County Code, 1984, is hereby repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 9501., to read as follows:

 

9501.                     Membership.

The County Executive shall appoint [seven (7)] eight (8) members to the Commission subject to the disapproval of the Legislature. All members shall be residents of Jackson County. One member shall be a member of the County Legislature. All members shall be business, community, and/or neighborhood leaders, who possess significant knowledge about the civil rights movement and the contributions of African Americans and other minority groups to the history and development of Jackson County. The County Executive shall solicit nominations to the Commission from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Metropolitan Organization for Racial and Economic Equity (MORE2), the Metropolitan Community Colleges, Penn Valley Campus, and neighborhood organizations within the County.  The County Executive shall give the strongest possible consideration to the appointment of the presidents or other chief executive officers of the specific organizations named above to serve on the Commission.

 

                     9501.1                     Term

Each member, except for the County Legislator member, shall serve a term of three years, and may be reappointed to two additional three-year terms. The County Legislator member shall serve a term coterminous with his or her term on the County Legislature.

 

Enacted and Approved

Effective Date:  This Ordinance shall be effective immediately upon its signature by the County Executive.

 

 

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

 

 

_______________________________                       _______________________________

Chief Deputy County Counselor                                           County Counselor

 

I hereby certify that the attached Ordinance, Ordinance No. 4831 introduced on March 21, 2016, was duly passed on March 21, 2016 by the Jackson County Legislature.  The votes thereon were as follows:

 

Yeas _______9________                                                               Nays ______0________

 

 

 

Abstaining ____0______                                                               Absent _____0_______

                                            

 

 

 

 

 

This Ordinance is hereby transmitted to the County Executive for his signature.

 

 

____________________                       _______________________________

Date                                        Mary Jo Spino, Clerk of the Legislature

 

 

I hereby approve the attached Ordinance No. 4831.

 

 

 

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Date                                    Frank White, Jr., County Executive