The duties, powers and responsibilities of the Commission shall be:
(a) To study, investigate, plan, advise, report and recommend to Council, the certified arborist, the Planning Commission or the Mayor any action, program, plan or legislation which the Commission shall find or determine to be necessary or advisable for the care, preservation, trimming, planting, replanting, maintaining, protecting, prompting, removal or disposition of trees and shrubs in public ways, curb strips, streets, alleys and all City property.
(b) The Commission shall choose its own officers, make its own rules and regulations and keep minutes of its proceedings. In the absence of any rule upon the matter of business, the Commission shall be governed by Robert's
Rules of Order. A majority of the voting members shall be a quorum for the transaction of business. All plans, findings, advice, reports and recommendations made by the Commission shall be in writing.
(c) The Commission, when requested by Council, the Mayor or the Certified Arborist, shall consider, investigate, make findings, reports and recommendations upon any special matter or question coming within the scope of its work.
(Ord. 70-21. Passed 9-13-21.)