A. In the interest of efficiency, the Mayor shall appoint with the advice and consent of the City Council an advisory committee which shall function as the Board of Commissioners (hereinafter referred to as the MRA governing body) of the MRA. The MRA shall have and exercise all powers of the City of Sunland Park and may exercise such powers in the same manner as though the powers were conferred on the MRA instead of the City of Sunland Park.
B. The Mayor shall designate a chairman and vice chairman from among the members of the Committee.
C. The MRA governing body may employ and determine the qualifications, duties and compensation of an executive director, technical experts and such other agents and employees, permanent and temporary, as the MRA may require. For such legal services as the MRA may require, in the interest of efficiency the MRA governing body may only employ or retain for the MRA legal counsel or legal staff Counsel to the City of Sunland Park or the City legal staff.
D. MRA may not budge any funds for expenditures or incur any obligations for expenditure of public funds except on approval of a budget by the City Council and the Local Government Division of the Department of Finance and Administration (LGD/DFA) except that MRA may solicit and accept personal or in kind goods or services from any source for purposes of startups while it is arranging for funding.
E. The City Council hereby declares its intent to seek approval of LGD/DFA for funding MRA out of the Border Crossing Fund which is appropriate because one mission of the MRA is to create a source of financing for public infrastructure for the proposed International Border Crossing. (Ord. 2012-05, 12-5-2012)