Fort Walton Beach Council agenda — 06-24-03 regular Council agenda — reading text

commissioner shal 1 1 b) Shall be made by the governing body upon the appointed at the time a vacancy exists. In the an authority which has no completed project, no te filing of a petition signed by 25 residents of the city IIp, asserting that there is need for an authority to function commissioner shall be appointed until 1 0 percent h in such city and requesting that the governing body so units in the first project of the authority have been' i declare. pied. The cessation of a tenant- commissioners j 2) The governing body may adopt a resolution ancy in a housing projector the cessation of rent tenant- commissioner, declaring that there is need for a housing authority in sidy shall remove such Jj the city if it shail find that office, and another person meeting the qualiti f~ a) Insanitary OrLJnsafe inhabited dwellingaccom- required for the office shall be appointed for the 1i:'.'.~ modations exist in 'such city; or pired portion of the term. After all reasonable b) There is a shortage of safe or sanitary dwelling have been made and documented, if the comm' 01 accommodations in such city available to persons of ers find that no housing project resident. or rent su al low income at rentals they can afford. In determining recipient is available to serve as a ten iii whether dwelling accommodations are unsafe or insan- commissioner, the existing vacancy shall then be PI take into consideration through the normal appointment procedures set f(j at itary said govemingbody mEiY the degree of overcrowding, the percentage of land this subsection. However, such normal appoint 01 and available to shall not preclude the requirement to exercise dllig rij coverage, the light, air, space access the inhabitants of such dwelling accommodations, the in all succeeding vacanci,es to attempt to first appOhi If facili- tenant- commissioner until at least one tena cc size and arrangement of the rooms, the sanitary commissioner has been appointed. No commissio in, ties, and the extent to which conditions e>sist in such life fireor other of an authority may be an officer or employee of the, buildings which endanger or property by, for which the authority is created. A commissioner s' WI causes. ' er 3) In any suit, action or proceeding involving the hold office until a successor has been appointed A certificate of the appointment or . ' dit of to contract of has qualified. validity or enforcement or relating any shall be tiled with f pointment of any commissioner 83, the authority, the authority shall be conclusively clerk, and such certificate shall be conclusive evide deemed to have become established and authorized to of the due and proper appointment of such com transact business and exercise its powers hereunder CiE of resolution the sioner. A commissioner shall receive no compensa i:'/! upon proof of the adoption a by gov- be entitled to the n mi I' for his or her services but shall i erning body declaring the need for the authority. Such travel incurre wh I I' resolution or resolutions shall be sufficient if it declares that there is such need for an authority and finds in sub- sary expenses, including expenses, the discharge of his or her duties. The requirements mi this subsection with to the number of comrn ha respect I' stantially the foregoing terms, no further detail being sioners of a authority apply without regard pri enumerated housing necessary, that.either or both of the above be the date on which the housing authority was create, conditions exist in the city. A copy of such resolution shall be vested' rer 2) The powers of each authority Ii duly certified by the clerk shall be admissible in evi- ( the commissioners thereof in office from time to time. ine dence in any suit, action or proceeding. sit Hlatory._. 4, 00. 17981, 1937; CGL 1940 supp, 7100( 3-d). majority of the commissioners shan constitute a qu H rum of the authority for the purpose of conducting . s. a. 421. 05 Appointment, qualifications, and tenure of busine8$and exercising its powers and for all oth commissioners; hiring of employees.- purposes. Action may be taken by the authority upon, 1) When the governing body of a city adopts a res- vote of a majority of the commissioners present, unless:;;. COI olution as aforesaid, tbe mayor, with the apprnv~ 1 oj tbe.-in any case the bylaws of the authority require a largenf. jng g body, shall promptly appoint no fewer than number. The mayor with the concurrence of the go~,,~! ton Jlovemil'\ fiVe persons, and no more than seven persons, as com- erning body shall designate which of the commissib~' f sar missioners of the authority created for such city. Three ers appointed shall be the first chair, but when theoffice,; f po: of the commissioners who are first appointed shall be of the chair of the authority thereafter becomes vacant;) loll.