(A) Created. There is hereby created a community development agency, which agency shall be known as the Community Development Agency.
(B) Purpose. The purposes for which the Agency is formed will be to formulate for the city a workable program for utilizing appropriate private and public resources to eliminate or prevent the development or spread of urban blight, to encourage needed urban rehabilitation, to provide for the redevelopment of substandard and blighted areas, or to undertake such of the aforesaid activities or other feasible municipal activities as may be suitably employed to achieve the objectives of such workable program. Such workable program may include without limitation, provision for the prevention of the spread of blight into areas of the municipality which are free from blight through diligent enforcement of housing, zoning, and occupancy controls and standards; the rehabilitation or conservation of substandard or blighted areas or portions thereof by replanning, removing congestion, providing parks, playgrounds, and other public improvements by encouraging voluntary rehabilitation, and by compelling the repair and rehabilitation of deteriorated or deteriorating structures; and the clearance and redevelopment of substandard and blighted areas or portions thereof.
(C) Membership.
(1) Such Agency shall consist of the Mayor and Council of the city.
(2) No member or employee of the Community Development Agency shall voluntarily acquire any interest, direct or indirect, in any redevelopment project or in any property included or planned by the Agency to be included in any project or in any contract or proposed contract in connection with any such project. Where the acquisition is not voluntary, such member or employee shall immediately disclose such interest in writing to the Agency and such disclosure shall be entered into the minutes of the Agency. If any member or employee of the Agency presently owns or controls or owned or controlled within the preceding two years, an interest, direct or indirect, in any property, included or planned by the Agency to be included in any redevelopment project, they shall immediately disclose such interest in writing to the Agency and such disclosure shall be entered upon the minutes of the Agency. Upon such disclosure, such member or employee of the Agency shall not participate in any action by the Agency affecting such property.
(D) Function; authority. The Agency shall function in a manner prescribed in this section and may exercise all of the power and authority granted to a community redevelopment authority pursuant to Neb. RS 18-2101 through 18-2144, 18-2147 through 18-2151, and 18-2154.
(Prior Code, § 32.07) (Ord. 1314, passed 12-10-1984)