(A) The Commission shall adopt rules and procedures for the transaction of business and shall keep a record of its resolutions, transactions, findings, recommendations and determinations, which records shall be a public record.
(B) The planning consultant shall provide staff services and recommendations and determinations.
(C) The Commission shall select from its voting membership a Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson to serve for one-year terms.
(D) Any discussion, other than one made at a public hearing of the Commission, that concerns a specific case scheduled or likely to come before the Commission and that is between a voting member and an applicant, an applicant’s representative or any other person with a direct interest in the matter, shall be made known and the substance of the discussion entered into the record by the member at the beginning of the Commission’s public hearing on the case.
(E) A member of the Commission shall not participate in any Commission proceeding or action in which any of the following has a direct or substantial financial interest: the member or the spouse, brother, sister, child, parent, father-in-law, mother-in-law of the member, any business in which the member is then serving or has served within the previous two years or any business with which the member is negotiating for or has an arrangement or understanding concerning prospective partnership or employment. Any actual or potential interest shall be disclosed at the meeting of the Commission where the action is being taken.
(F) The Commission shall complete its action on all applications and requests coming before it under the zoning and subdivision ordinances, building codes and Master Road Plan, within the period of time specified, unless a shorter time is provided by order or ordinance.
(Ord. 307, passed 5-10-1993; Ord. 327, passed 2-10-1997)