The agreement of the County Park Board and the Martin County Park Board, by the President and Secretary of the respective park boards, as of the date of March 8, 1966, for the creation of a Joint Park Board, for the express purpose of the creation of park and recreation facilities on the West Boggs Creek Watershed, as authorized by the statutes, and pursuant to these conditions and agreements.
(A) The Joint Park and Recreation Board shall be composed of all the membership of the Park and Recreation Boards of the respective districts.
(B) The Joint Park and Recreation Board shall appoint an Executive Committee, composed of equal number of members from the membership of each participating Park and Recreation Board, which Executive Committee shall be empowered to exercise all the authority of the Joint Park and Recreation Board, except that any Executive Committee member may require an issue to be submitted to the Joint Park and Recreation Board for final action thereon.
(C) The Joint Park and Recreation Board shall determine its total budget request, which total budget shall be presented to the County Council in each of the respective counties, provided however, that each county shall bear but 50% of the total budget.
(D) The Joint Park and Recreation Board shall elect a President and Secretary from its membership, who shall serve in those offices for a term of one year. The officers shall be elected annually at a Joint Park and Recreation Board meeting to be held in December of each year, and the officers shall take office on the first Monday of the following year.
(E) Monies appropriated by the participating political subdivisions shall be deposited in a Joint Park and Recreation Board Fund in the custody of the fiscal officer of each of the respective participating political subdivisions. Monies may be withdrawn from the respective fund in either political subdivision only upon vouchers signed by the President and Secretary of the Joint Park and Recreation Board.
(F) The Joint Park and Recreation Board shall be empowered with all the powers granted to those boards by statute, including, but not limited to, those powers specified in the Acts 1955, Ch, 311, § 216; Acts 1963, Ch. 171, § 1 and Acts 1965, Ch. 404, § 6, and all further enactments of the General Assembly of the state, relative to Joint Park and Recreation Boards.
(G) The creation of the Joint Park and Recreation Board for the promotion, operation and maintenance of park and recreational facilities on West Boggs Creek Watershed shall in no way affect the continued function and operation of the Park and Recreation Boards of the respective counties as now exist, for the development of other park and recreational facilities in the respective counties.
(Council Ord. passed 5-20-1966)