A. Committee Created: A joint standing committee of the city council and the board of commissioners of the Northern Lakes Fire District and Kootenai County Emergency Medical Services System is established.
B. Committee Name: The joint standing committee is known and shall continue to be known and designated as the "City of Rathdrum/Northern Lakes Fire Protection District/Kootenai County Emergency Medical Services System Joint Development Impact Fee Advisory Standing Committee" (hereinafter in this chapter referred also as "joint advisory committee" or "committee").
C. Membership: The members on the committee shall be appointed by the city council and confirmed by the board of commissioners of the Northern Lakes Fire District and Kootenai County Emergency Medical Services System for a term of three (3) years or until someone is appointed in his/her place, and there shall not be fewer than five (5) members of which two (2) or more members shall be active in the business of development, building or real estate and at least two (2) or more members shall not be active in the business of development, building or real estate. At least one (1) member shall reside in the City of Rathdrum. All members must reside within the Districts' boundaries. No members shall be employees or officials of the City of Rathdrum or the Districts.
1. Any vacancy occurring on the committee during the year shall be filled during the year, by appointment of the city council and confirmed by the board of commissioners of the Districts.
D. Charge: The joint advisory committee shall serve as an advisory committee to the city council and the board of commissioners of the Northern Lakes Fire Protection Districts and Kootenai County Emergency Medical Services System and is charged with the following responsibilities:
1. Assist the city and the Northern Lakes Fire Protection Districts and Kootenai County Emergency Medical Services System in adopting land use assumptions; and
2. Review the capital improvements plan; and
3. Monitor and evaluate implementation of the capital improvements plan;
4. File with the Districts, District Administrators and the city clerk, at least annually, with respect to the capital improvements plan a report of any perceived inequities in implementing the capital improvements plan or imposing the fire and/or EMS impact fees;
5. Advise the city council and the board of commissioners of the Northern Lakes Fire District and Kootenai County Emergency Medical Services System of the need to update or revise land use assumptions, capital improvements plan and fire and/or EMS development impact fees; and
6. The Northern Lakes Fire District and Kootenai County Emergency Medical Services System shall make available to the joint advisory committee, upon request, all financial and accounting information, professional reports in relation to other development and implementation of land use assumptions, the capital improvements plan and periodic updates of the capital improvements plan.
E. Joint Advisory Committee Organization: The District Administrators shall staff the joint advisory committee in order to provide the committee with needed information for the committee's review and to provide for its compliance with the Open Meeting Law (Chapter 2 of Title 74 Idaho Code).
1. The joint advisory committee shall select its officers, which include a chairman, vice chairman and a secretary of the committee.
2. The chairman shall conduct the meetings of the committee. The duties of the chairman shall be performed by the vice chairman in the absence of the chairman or as delegated by the chairman. The chairman and the vice chairman shall be members of the committee.
3. The District administrator shall serve as the secretary of the committee and shall take minutes and post agenda notices required by the Open Meeting Law. The secretary is not a member of the committee.
4. The committee shall establish a regular meeting schedule.
5. The agenda of each meeting shall include the approval of the minutes of the last meeting and the secretary shall provide a copy of the approved minutes to the city council and the board of commissioners.
6. Fifty (50) percent of the membership of the committee shall constitute a quorum. Once a quorum is established for a meeting, the subsequent absence of a member present for creating the quorum shall not dismiss the quorum.
7. A majority vote of those present at any meeting is sufficient to carry motions.
F. Reporting: The joint advisory committee reports directly to the Northern Lakes Fire District and Kootenai County Emergency Medical Services System Board of Commissioners and to the Planning and Zoning Commission.
G. City Council and Northern Lakes Fire Protection District/Kootenai County Emergency Medical Services System Board of Commissioners Review of Committee's Reports and Recommendations. The planning and zoning commission/city council and the Northern Lakes Fire District and Kootenai County Emergency Medical Services System Board of Commissioners shall each consider the joint advisory committee's recommended revision(s) at least once every twelve (12) months. The Joint Advisory Committee's recommendations and the city council's and board of commissioners' actions are intended to ensure that the benefits to a development paying fire and EMS impact fees are equitable, so that the fire and EMS impact fee charged to the development shall not exceed a proportionate share of system improvements costs, and that the procedures for administering fire and EMS impact fees remain efficient. (Ord. 606, 7-13-2022)