(A) Created; composition; appointment of members.
(1) There is created a Cemetery Advisory Board for the city. The Board shall be composed of five members to include one City Council member, one funeral home director, and three Cleburne residents who shall be appointed by the City Council and who serve without compensation.
(2) The City Manager shall serve as an ex officio member of the Cemetery Advisory Board.
(B) Terms of members. Members of the Cemetery Advisory Board shall serve for a term of two years and until their successors have been appointed.
(C) Election of officers; rules of procedure. The Cemetery Advisory Board shall make its own rules for election of officers and the conduct of its business.
(D) Duties. It shall be the duty of the Cemetery Advisory Board to make plans for future developments and welfare of the city in regard to the cemeteries, to confer with and make recommendations to the City Manager relating to such plans, to conduct programs of education for the effective carrying out of such plans, and to assist the City Manager and the City Council in development and adoption of such plans and recommendations in advisory in nature, in every way possible.
(E) No authority to expend city funds or to order work done. The Cemetery Advisory Board shall have no authority to make expenditure of city funds, nor to order any work done on its own authority. The Cemetery Advisory Board shall have no authority to employ or discharge employees of the Cemetery Department nor to make duty assignments to the employees of the cemetery.
(Ord. 10-2015-71, passed 10-13-15)
Cross-reference:
Boards, commissions and public bodies generally, see Ch. 31