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Any member may be removed for misconduct or neglect of duty or for other just cause by a majority vote of Council taken after the member has received 15 days' advance notice of the intent to take such vote. Failure of a member to attend three consecutive regular meetings of the Board will constitute grounds for immediate removal from the Commission by City Council. Failure of a member to attend at least 50% of the regular meetings of the Board in a calendar year will constitute grounds for immediate removal from the Commission by City Council. The Chairperson of the Board shall inform the City Clerk in writing when a member has failed to comply with this attendance policy. Following such notification, City Council may vote to remove the member and seek applicants to fill the vacant position.
The members of the Commission shall elect their own Chairman and Vice Chairman/Secretary and select all other necessary officers to serve for a period of one year. The Commission shall adopt rules and regulations for its internal organization and procedure and for the conduct of all business within its jurisdiction.
[Amended 9-14-2020 by Ord. No. 61-2020]
A. The Commission, in cooperation with the City and the Reading Fightin Phils or other baseball franchise organization, shall supervise the operation of the First Energy Stadium. The Commission will assist the City and the Reading Fightin Phils or other baseball franchise organizationin identifying the capital needs and repairs for the stadium, as listed in the revised and restated lease agreement dated October 25, 1999, "lease agreement." The Commission shall define capital project with the Reading Fightin Phils or other baseball franchise organization and shall submit to the Public Works Director and City Council, no later than July 1 of each year, its recommendation for capital repairs and improvements to the stadium for inclusion in the City's operating budget and five-year capital plan.
A. The Commission, in cooperation with the City and the Reading Fightin Phils or other baseball franchise organization, shall supervise the operation of the First Energy Stadium. The Commission will assist the City and the Reading Fightin Phils or other baseball franchise organizationin identifying the capital needs and repairs for the stadium, as listed in the revised and restated lease agreement dated October 25, 1999, "lease agreement." The Commission shall define capital project with the Reading Fightin Phils or other baseball franchise organization and shall submit to the Public Works Director and City Council, no later than July 1 of each year, its recommendation for capital repairs and improvements to the stadium for inclusion in the City's operating budget and five-year capital plan.
B. The lease agreement transfers the responsibility of the beer sales from the City and the prior Stadium Commission to the Reading Fightin Phils or other baseball franchise organization. The $4,200 retained by the prior Stadium Commission to purchase beer products for the 2000 season shall be placed in an account titled “Stadium Capital” within the City’s Capital Improvement Project fund. These monies will be expended for the capital repairs to the stadium as identified by the Commission, Reading Fightin Phils or other baseball franchise organization and approved by the Public Works Operations Division Manager, as outlined in the lease agreement. This account will remain independent from all other City accounts and funds and will not be combined with the City’s general fund at the end of any fiscal year. The City administration will appropriate a minimum of $5,000 per year in this account for each fiscal year.
C. The Commission will supply a copy of all meeting minutes to the City Clerk and shall make an annual report to Council on the operations of the Commission.
Part 5
Human Relations Commission; Discrimination
Human Relations Commission; Discrimination
[Adopted 3-13-2002 by Ord. No. 6-2002 (Ch. 1, Part 5C, of the 2001 Code of Ordinances)]
[Amended 9-28-2009 by Ord. No. 53-2009]
A. Legislative findings.
(1) The population of the City consists of people of many races, colors, religions, ancestries, sexual orientations, gender identities or expressions, national origins, ages, sex and familial status. Some suffer from handicaps. Others have previously filed charges of discrimination with the Commission of Human Relations or a similar state or federal agency. Some of these citizens, for one or more of the above mentioned reasons, are discriminated against in employment opportunities, places of business, public accommodations, resort, recreation and amusement, housing facilities and the obtaining of loans and the extending of credit for housing accommodations.
(2) Discrimination because of race, color, religion, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, sex, familial status, handicap or previous opposition to individual discriminatory practices is contrary to the constitutions, laws and policies of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the United States of America.
(3) Discrimination in employment prevents the gainful employment of segments of the residents of the City, tends to impair the City's productive capacity, reduces the public revenues, imposes substantial financial burden upon the public for relief and welfare, and tends to create breaches of the peace and depressed living conditions which breed crime, vice, juvenile delinquency and disease, and is detrimental to the public safety, economic growth and general welfare of the City.
(4) Discrimination in housing results in overcrowded, segregated areas with substandard, unsafe, and unsanitary living conditions, which cause increased mortality, disease, crime, vice and juvenile delinquency, fires and risk of fire, intergroup tensions and other evils, all of which increase the cost of government and reduce the public revenues, and result in injury to the public safety, health and welfare of the City.
(5) Discrimination in places of public accommodation, resort, recreation, amusement and places of business, causes humiliation, embarrassment and inconvenience to residents and visitors of the City, tends to create breaches of the peace, intergroup tensions and conflicts and similar evils, and is detrimental to the public safety, general welfare and economic growth of the City.
B. Declaration of policy.
(1) It is hereby declared to be the policy of the City, in the exercise of its powers for the protection of the public safety and the general welfare, for the maintenance of peace and good government and for the promotion of the City's trade, commerce and manufacture, to assure the right and opportunity of all persons to participate in the social, cultural, recreational and economic life of the City and to insure equal opportunity for all persons to live in decent housing facilities, free from restrictions because of race, color, religion, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, sex, familial status, handicap or previous filing of a complaint of discrimination.
(2) To accomplish these goals, it shall be the public policy of the City to prohibit discrimination because of race, color, religion, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, sex, familial status, handicap or previous filing of a complaint of discrimination in employment, housing and places of business, public accommodation, resort, recreation or amusement.
This Part applies to discriminatory practices including, but not limited to, discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations, including places of business, which occur within the territorial limits of the City and to employment, contracted for, performed or to be performed within these limits, and to housing accommodations and places of business, public accommodation, resort, recreation and amusement located within the territorial limits of the City.
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