(A) Establishment of a Port Authority. A port authority to be known as the Southeast Indiana Regional Port Authority is hereby established and shall have the powers and jurisdiction enumerated and set forth in Indiana Code § 8-10-5-1 et seq., as amended from time to time.
(b) Board of Directors.
(1) The port authority shall be governed by a Board of Directors consisting of 12 members, who shall be appointed by the mayors of the three cities, with the consent and advice of their respective common councils, and by the county commission, whose memberships and appointments shall consist of the following categories:
(a) The Mayor of the City of Aurora;
(b) The Mayor of the City of Greendale;
(c) The Mayor of the City of Lawrenceburg;
(d) One member from the Dearborn County Board of Commissioners;
(e) Two at-large representatives appointed by the Mayor of the City of Aurora;
(f) Two at-large representatives appointed by the Mayor of the City of Greendale;
(g) Two at-large representatives appointed by the Mayor of the City of Lawrenceburg; and
(h) Two at-large representatives appointed by the Dearborn County Commissioners.
(2) At the time of appointment, a director must be a resident of one of the following:
(a) The political subdivision from which the director is appointed; or
(b) The county within which the port authority is established; provided that, at all times a majority of the directors must be residents of the political subdivision from which the members are appointed.
(3) The directors of the port authority first appointed shall serve staggered terms. The two at-large representatives from Aurora shall serve an initial term of one year; the two at-large representatives from Greendale shall serve an initial term of two years; the two at-large representatives from Lawrenceburg shall serve an initial term of three years; and the Mayors of Aurora and Lawrenceburg and the Dearborn County Commissioner shall serve an initial term of four years. Thereafter, each successor director shall serve a term of four years, except that any person appointed to fill a vacancy shall be appointed to only the remainder of the unexpired vacant term, and any director shall be eligible for reappointment. The mayors of the cities who appoint their respective at-large representatives may individually remove the at-large director appointed by the respective mayor at any time for misfeasance, nonfeasance, or malfeasance in office.
(C) Procedure. The directors shall elect one of their membership as Chairman, another as Vice-Chairman, and shall designate their terms of office, and shall appoint a Secretary who need not be a director. A majority of the Board of Directors shall constitute a quorum, the affirmative vote of which shall be necessary for any action taken by the port authority. No vacancy in membership of the Board shall impair the rights of a quorum to exercise all the rights and perform all the duties of the port authority. The elected Chairman shall not vote on actions of the Board of Directors, unless his or her vote is required to decide a tie vote among the other directors.
(D) Compensation of Board Members. Each member of the Board of Directors shall be entitled to receive from the port authority such sum of money as the Board of Directors may determine as compensation for the director’s services as a director, and reimbursement for the director’s reasonable expenses in the performance of the director’s duties.
(E) Emergency clause. This section shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage by all three cities and the county commission.
(F) Re-establishment of Southeast Indiana Regional Port Authority. Adoption and passage of the ordinance codified herein by the Common Councils of Aurora, Greendale, and Lawrenceburg, and by the Dearborn County Commission, shall serve to replace and re-establish the Southeast Indiana Regional Port Authority previously formed jointly between the cities of Aurora and Lawrenceburg and Dearborn County.
(Ord. 2016-20, passed 10-12-2016)