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06-1280 City Code Arts Commission Ordinance CITY OF MERIDIAN ORDINANCE NO. tJ 6 - / 2 ~ 0 BY THE CITY COUNCIL: BIRD, BORTON, ROUNTREE, WARDLE AN ORDINANCE ADDING TITLE 2, CHAPTER 5, TO THE MERIDIAN CITY CODE REGARDING: A STATEMENT OF PURPOSE; DEFINITIONS; ESTABLISHMENT OF ARTS COMMISSION, MEMBERSHIP, TERMS, VACANCIES, AND AUTHORITY; ORGANIZATION; POWERS, DUTIES, AND RESPONSIBILITIES; AND PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR A WAIVER OF THE READING RULES; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Meridian believes that development of publicly-accessible arts will highlight our community's rich cultural resources, enhance the City's aesthetic environment, and promote the development of economic, educational, recreational, and tourism opportunities within the City; WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Meridian believes that the arts can be used as a conduit for exchanging ideas, making connections, and finding common ground and, when accessible to the public, will help to strengthen Meridian's community and families; WHEREAS, the City Council ofthe City of Meridian deems it to be in the best interest of its citizens to create an Arts Commission for the purpose of advancing the arts within the City of Meridian through the research and development of opportunities and funding sources for the arts within our community; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN, IDAHO: Section 1. That Title 2, Chapter 5, of the Meridian City Code is added, to read as follows: 2-5~1: PURPOSE: The purpose of this Chapter is to highlight the City's rich cultural resources, enhance the City's aesthetic environment, and promote the development of economic, educational, recreation, and tourism opportunities within the City through the advancement of publicly-accessible arts. 2-5-2: DEFINITIONS: ORDINANCE CREATING MERIDIAN ARTS COMMISSION PAGE 1 OF 5 The following words and phrases when used in this Chapter shall have, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the following meanings: ARTS: Human-made works produced through creative activity which are depicted and intended to be experienced visually or through the use of other senses, including, but not limited to, all branches of the visual and performing arts. CITY: The City of Meridian. COMMISSION: The Arts Commission ofthe City of Meridian. 2-5-3: ESTABLISHMENT OF ARTS COMMISSION; MEMBERSHIP; TERMS; VACANCIES; AUTHORITY: A. Commission Established: There is hereby established a Meridian Arts Commission. B. Membership: 1. The Commission shall consist of a minimum of five (5) members and no more than nine (9) members. 2. Members of the Commission shall be appointed by the Mayor and approved by the City Council on a vote of a majority ofthe City Council members, and Commission members may, in like manner, be removed. 3. All members of the Commission and the officers thereof shall serve without salary or compensation. The City shall provide the necessary and suitable equipment and supplies to enable the commission to properly transact and attend to its business. The budget for Commission equipment and supplies shall be provided for through the Mayor's office budget. 4. Residents who reside within the corporate limits ofthe City of Meridian, or area of impact, and are a minimum of eighteen (18) years of age are eligible to serve on the Commission, except that one position may be designated to represent youth which commission member may be, at the time of appointment, under eighteen (18) years of age. One member shall be a resident of the area of impact but no more than two (2) members may be appointed from residents ofthe city impact area outside the corporate limits ofthe City. One (1) member, but no more than two (2) members may be appointed "at-large" and do not have to be residents of the City or the impact area. 5. One member of the Meridian City Council may serve as a liaison and ex- officio member of the Commission and shall have no vote. ORDINANCE CREATING MERIDIAN ARTS COMMISSION PAGE 2 OF 5 C. Terms of Office: Initial appointments to the Commission shall be made as follows: one (1) one-year term; two (2) two-year terms; two (2) three-year terms. All additional and subsequent appointments shall be made for three-year terms. The youth member shall be appointed to a term of up to one (1) year and may be reappointed to up to three (3) successive terms. Commissioners may be reappointed to serve additional terms. Commissioners wishing to serve additional terms shall submit a letter of interest to the Mayor thirty (30) days prior to the expiration of his or her previous term. Reappointments shall be at the discretion of the Mayor, with approval by the City Council. D. Vacancy: Vacancies shall be filled in the same manner as original appointments and the appointee shall serve for the remainder of the unexpired term. E. Advisory Status: The Commission shall be deemed advisory and shall report and make recommendations to the Mayor and City Council. All actions of the Commission shall be subject to approval by the Mayor and City Council by resolution and after such approval shall have the force and effect of ordinance. 2-5-4: ORGANIZATION: A. Bylaws: The Commission shall make bylaws necessary for the execution of its duties as set forth in this Chapter. The initial bylaws shall be approved by resolution of City Council and shall thereafter be amended by a four-fifths (4/5) vote of the members of the Commission and approved by City Council. Bylaws of the Commission shall be available for public inspection. B. Officers: The Commission shall annually elect officers from among the Commission members at the first regularly scheduled meeting after January 1 of each year. The Commission chair shall preside at meetings of the Commission. The vice chair shall, in the absence of the chair, perform the duties of the chair. C. Meetings: 1. The commission shall hold one regular meeting each month for not less than nine (9) months of each year. 2. All meetings ofthe Commission shall be open to the public, and shall be subject to the requirements ofIdaho's open meeting laws. D. Records: The Commission shall keep minutes and other appropriate written records of its proceedings, actions, and recommendations to City Council. E. Quorum: A majority of the currently appointed members of the Commission shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business of the Commission. ORDINANCE CREATING MERIDIAN ARTS COMMISSION PAGE 3 OF 5 F. Reports: The Arts Commission shall make reports as requested by the Mayor or City Council. The Commission chair shall submit an annual report to the Mayor and City Council regarding the Commissions activities and accomplishments in the furtherance of the objectives of this Chapter. G. Conflict of Interest Prohibited: No Commission member may take voting action that financially benefits the member, any of the member's immediate family or the member's business or corporate affiliates. 2-5-5: POWERS, DUTIES, AND RESPONSIBILITIES: The Commission shall be advisory to the City Council and shall be authorized to: A. Assess the needs of the Meridian community with regard to the arts and make such information available to the City Council and all interested agencies and persons; B. Stimulate awareness and appreciation of the importance of publicly-accessible art and its benefits to the community; C. Encourage the growth and preservation ofthe City's art resources, foster the development of a receptive climate for the arts, and promote self-sustaining arts programs within the City; D. Review and advise the City Council on the aesthetic aspects of works of art or public monuments under consideration to be accepted or commissioned by the City of Meridian; E. Promote the development of, and provide general information and encouragement to, the City's cultural organizations, artists, institutions and community organizations sponsoring arts activities; F. Seek and encourage financial support, including, but not limited to, grants, loans and guarantees to artists, arts institutions and community organizations sponsoring arts activities and publicly-accessible arts in the City, subject to City Council approval; G. Recommend to City Council, within the limits ofthe Commission's funding, the employment of or the contracting with other parties for the services of technical experts or other persons as it seems necessary to carryon the functions of the Commission; H. Prepare and submit budgetary recommendations to City Council for expenditures necessary for the continuation and development of public programs furthering the arts; I. Cooperate with federal, state, and local governments, schools, and private art organizations, in the pursuance of the objectives of this Chapter; and ORDINANCE CREATING MERIDIAN ARTS COMMISSION PAGE 4 OF 5 J. Recommend ordinances and otherwise provide information for the purposes of advancement of publicly-accessible arts in the City. 2-5-6: SEVERABILITY: If any provision or section of this Chapter shall be held to be invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, then such provision or section shall be considered separately and apart from the remaining provisions or section of this Chapter, which shall remain in full force and effect. Section 2. That all ordinances, resolutions, orders, or parts thereof or III conflict with this ordinance are hereby voided. Section 3. That pursuant to the affirmative vote of one-half (112) plus one (1) of the Members of the full Council, the rule requiring two (2) separate readings by title and one (1) reading in full be, and the same is hereby, dispensed with, and accordingly, this Ordinance shall be in full force and effect after its passage, approval and publication. -I"'Jl P A~~ED by the City Council of the City of Meridian, Idaho, this 2 6 - day of N t7Ve-I'W~ , 2006. . APPROVED by the Mayor of the City of Meridian, Idaho, this 2 &r'1' day of J./ &lVM1'v~ , 2006. APPROVED: ATTEST: ORDINANCE CREATING MERIDIAN ARTS COMMISSION PAGE 5 OF 5 NOTICE AND PUBLISHED SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE PURSUANT TO I.C. § 50-90I(A) CITY OF MERIDIAN ORDINANCE NO. 06- / Z 6 0 ADDING TITLE 2, CHAPTER 5, TO THE MERIDIAN CITY CODE An Ordinance of the City of Meridian adding Title 2, Chapter 5, of the Meridian City Code. A full text of this ordinance is available for aspec i n at City Hall, City of Meridian, 33 East Idaho Avenue, Meridian, Id i is rc W41,P,e� shall become effectiv upon passage and publication. �✓ ;,� �'•y yor and City Council oft e City of Mer�dia By: William G. Berg, Jr., City Clerk 9©� � v" Lam. First Reading: Adopted ade x� Rule as allowed pursuant to Idaho Code § 50-902: S suspension of the Second Reading:NO Third Reading. STATEMENT OF MERIDIAN CITY ATTORNEY AS TO ADEQUACY OF SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE NO. 06- l28 0 The undersigned, William L.M. Nary, City Attorney of the City of Meridian, Idaho, hereby certifies that he is the legal advisor of the City and has reviewed a copy of the attached Ordinance No. 06- Z 2 6 p of the City of Meridian, Idaho, and has found the same to be true and complete and provides adequate notice to the public pursuant to Idaho Code § 50-901A(3). DATED this day of c- 2006. William. L.M. Nary, City Attorne SUMMARY FOR ORDINANCE CREATING MERIDIAN ARTS COM VRS, ION PAGE 1 OF 1