(A) The agreement of the County Park Board and the City Park Board, executed by the president and secretary of the respective park boards as of the date of April 3, 1967, providing for the creation of a joint park board for the express purpose of the creation of park and recreational facilities in the county as authorized by the statutes is ratified and approved, pursuant to the following conditions and agreements:
(1) That such Joint Park and Recreation Board shall be composed of all the membership of the park and recreation boards of the respective districts;
(2) That the Joint Park and Recreation Board may appoint an executive committee composed of equal numbers 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;
(3) That the Joint Park and Recreation Board shall determine its total budget and submit the same to both the County Council and the Common Council, which Councils shall jointly determine the appropriation to be made. The assessment to procure the funds is required to be on a whole county basis;
(4) That the Joint Park and Recreation Board shall elect a president and secretary from its membership who shall serve in such offices for a term of one year. Such officers shall be elected annually at a Joint Park and Recreation Board meeting to be held in December of each year and such officers shall take office on the first Monday of the following year. It is further recommended that the boards agree on a system of rotation of its members and its elective officer of the executive committee;
(5) The moneys appropriated shall be deposited in a Joint Park and Recreational Board fund in the custody of the fiscal officers of the Joint Park and Recreation Board. Moneys may be withdrawn from the respective fund only on vouchers signed by the president and secretary of the Joint Park and Recreation Board;
(6) That the Joint Park and Recreation Board shall be empowered with all the powers granted to such boards by statutes including but not limited to those powers specified in IC 36-10-3-4, 36-10-3-10, and 36-10-3-11, as amended from time to time, relative to such Joint Park and Recreation Board.
('76 Code, § 17-3) (Ord. 1967-5, passed 4-3-67)
(B) The Decatur County Parks and Recreation Board as it is presently constituted is hereby reaffirmed and reestablished with its current members and previously established terms, pursuant to IC 36-10-3-l through 36-10-3-39.
(Ord. 1983-4, passed 5-1-83)
Statutory reference:
Joint boards, see IC 36-10-3-29 through 36-10-3-32
Power to establish and maintain public parks and recreation areas, see IC 36-10-2-2