1. The Municipal Planning Commission shall serve as an advisory board for the city, to be composed of at least five voting members. The Mayor and the City Clerk shall serve as ex officio members of said Commission, without voting powers. See Chapter 15 of this code of ordinances.
2. Upon the initial appointment of members to the Municipal Planning Commission, the Mayor shall designate one member to serve for a period of one year, two members to serve for a period of two years, and two members to serve for a period of three years. All subsequent appointments of members shall be for a three-year term, and until their successors are appointed and qualified.
3. The members of the Municipal Planning Commission shall be nominated for appointment by the Mayor and confirmed by the City Council, shall be residents of the city and shall serve without salary.
4. Members of the Municipal Planning Commission may be removed by the City Council for inefficiency, neglect of duty, malefaction in office or other cause established by resolution of the City Council; vacancies occurring other than through the expiration of a term shall be filled only for the unexpired term by the City Council.
5. Within five days of the appointment and qualification of the members of the Municipal Planning Commission, said Commission shall meet and elect one of their number as Chairperson, one as Vice-Chairperson and one as Secretary; in addition, the Municipal Planning Commission may create and fill such other offices as it may deem necessary. The term of all such offices shall be one year, with eligibility for re-election. Three members of the Commission shall constitute a quorum.
6. There is hereby created a Regional Planning Commission as an entity of the city. The Municipal Planning Commission for said city shall also serve as the Regional Planning Commission, in order to avail itself of the powers of state law relating primarily to the regulation of land subdivision within three miles of the corporate limits of the city. The Mayor of the city and the Chairperson of the County Board of Commissioners shall be ex officio members of said Regional Planning Commission, to serve without voting powers.
7. There is hereby created a Local Capital Improvements Planning Committee for the city in compliance with the provisions of the State Capital Improvements Planning Act (62 O.S. §§ 901 et seq.). The Local Capital Improvements Planning Committee shall consist of five voting members, to be appointed by the Mayor, subject to the confirmation of the City Council. All members must be residents of the city and shall serve without salary. Terms of the members shall be established in the same manner as for those of Municipal Planning Commission. Unless the City Council, at its discretion, specifically designates a separate group of persons, the Municipal Planning Commissioner shall serve as the Local Capital Improvements Planning Committee. The Local Capital Improvements Planning Committee has the general responsibility to assist the City Council in planning for the future development, growth and improvement of said city, and in preparing, adopting, implementing and amending the local capital improvements plan and its related programs, consistent with the goals, guidelines and other provisions of the State Capital Improvements Planning Act, it shall also:
a. Prepare the city’s capital improvements plan;
b. Make recommendations to the City Council regarding the adoption of the plan;
c. Serve in an ongoing advisory capacity to the City Council regarding implementation of the plan, particularly in the annual update phase of the planning process;
d. Conduct public hearings and solicit and encourage citizen participation, as required by, and in accordance with, applicable provisions of the State Capital Improvements Planning Act;
e. Take such other actions as may be necessary to carry out the city capital improvements planning process, consistent with local ordinances and policy, and state law requirements, including capacity to recommend agreements with other area jurisdictions, in order to carry out the purposes of the capital improvements planning process: and
f. Maintain a working relationship with the appropriate Regional Planning Board of Trustees (the Association of South Central Oklahoma Governments, ASCOG), in order to ensure that the statutory requirements for integrating the city’s plan into the ASCOG regional capital improvements plan, each year, are fully met, to the benefit of the city and the state.