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(a) The Board of Trustees of the Portage Area Regional Transportation Authority (the Board) shall be composed of fifteen (15) members, and appointed as follows:
Three (3) by the Portage County Board of Commissioners
Three (3) by the City of Kent;
Two (2) by the Mayor of the City of Ravenna;
Two (2) by the Mayor of the City of Aurora;
Two (2) by the Mayor of the City of Streetsboro;
One (1) by the Board of the Township Trustees of Franklin Township;
One (1) by the Board of the Township Trustees of Ravenna Township; and
One (1) by the Mayor of the Village of Brady Lake.
(b) Each appointment of Board members, except as provided above and except for appointments to fill a vacancy, shall be for a three-year term ending on June 30. Any vacancy in a Board position caused by resignation, death, removal or otherwise, shall be filled by appointment by the appointing authority of the Board position for the remainder of the unexpired term. Board members shall be eligible for reappointment.
(c) Each Board Member shall be a qualified elector of the political subdivision from which he or she is appointed for a period of at least three years next preceding his or her appointment; and shall remain a qualified elector of that political subdivision during the term as a Board Member. No individual shall be appointed to or continue serving on the Board who has a contractual interest in any transportation franchise granted by a member of the Authority. Any appointed trustee shall be eligible for reappointment. Before entering upon official duties, each member of the Board shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation that the individual will honestly, faithfully and impartially perform the duties of office and will not be personally interested directly or indirectly in any contract let by the Authority.
(Ord. 2006-124. Passed 11-01-06.)
(a) After each member of the Board has taken the oath as prescribed by the previous section, the Board shall meet and organize by electing one of its members as president and another as vice-president who shall hold their respective offices until the next annual meeting of the Board as provided in its bylaws. At each annual meeting thereafter, the Board shall elect from its membership a president and a vice-president who shall serve a term of one year. The Board shall also appoint and fix the compensation of a Secretary-Treasurer who shall be the fiscal officer of the Authority and who (I) shall not be a member of the Board and (ii) shall serve at the pleasure of the Board.
(b) Board Members shall not be compensated for any Board or committee meeting they attend or other Board activity. Board members shall, however, be reimbursed for their reasonable expenses incurred in the performance of their Board duties.
(Ord. 2006-124. Passed 11-01-06.)
It is contemplated that the Portage Area Regional Transportation Authority shall pay its expenses from its revenues, federal and state grants and the proceeds of any taxes levied pursuant to Ohio R. C. 306.30 et seq. by the Authority. The Financial obligation to the Authority of each participating subdivision member of the Authority is limited to the amount (and source) that it agrees to provide on an annual (fiscal year) basis by appropriations actions of its legislative authority. (Ord. 2006-124. Passed 11-01-06.)
Authority transportation routes that make use of public roads and streets shall be subject to the approval of the appropriate planning and/or legislative authorities of the political subdivisions (incorporated and unincorporated) in which such roads and streets lie.
(Ord. 2006-124. Passed 11-01-06.)
The Portage Area Regional Transportation Authority may be terminated and dissolved at any time by appropriate action by its Board and by the legislative authority of each participating subdivision member of the Authority at the time, which action which shall state a date on which the Authority shall is to be terminated and shall become effective upon the filing of a copy of each action with the Authority Secretary-Treasurer and with the Clerk of the legislative authority of each then participating subdivision member of the Authority.
Before any date fixed for termination, the Authority shall proceed to conclude its affairs, fulfill or discharge or provide for the fulfillment or discharge of its contracts, collect its assets, sell its assets for cash at public or private sale, discharge or pay or provide for the discharge and payment of its liabilities and do all other acts necessary or appropriate to liquidate its business and existence. On the date fixed for termination, the Authority after paying or making adequate provision for the payments of its liabilities shall distribute its remaining assets to the then participating subdivision members of the Authority, allocated on the basis of population as determined at the most recent decennial census. After the date fixed for termination, the Authority, the Board, and officers of the Board or Authority may continue to function as such for the sole purpose of concluding the affairs of the Authority in the same manner as if the termination had not taken place. In doing so, the Board members shall not be deemed to be trustees for the assets of the Authority and the title to those assets shall remain in the Authority until transferred by it. Until the conclusion of winding up the affairs of thet Authority the then existing agreement provided for the existence and operations and Authority bylaws, shall continue in full force and effect.
(Ord. 2006-124. Passed 11-01-06.)