(A) The North Coast Foreign-Trade Zone Board of Governors (board) is created to encourage participation in the Foreign-Trade Zone Project by the cities and counties of the Greater Humboldt Bay Area of Northern California. Creation of the board will enable discussion, study and review of long-term zone marketing, support and administrative efforts. Further, the board shall be the forum to raise those problems and needs which require review and recommendations on an area-wide basis.
(B) The board is based upon the principle of equality of membership and nothing contained in this document shall authorize the board to intervene in matters which are strictly within the local jurisdiction of any member without its consent.
(C) The board is not intended to be in any form a substitute for local government. Its prime purpose is to be an organization through which individual governmental units can provide input directly to the City Council (Grantee) concerning foreign-trade zone matters.
(Ord. 635-C.S., passed 9-17-00)