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RULES OF ASSOCIATION FOR THE LARIMER-WELD REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION -- Amended
Membership:
1. The Planning Commission shall be comprised of two Boards -- Advisory and
Policy.
2. The Advisory Board shall be comprised of fifteen members: eight county Plan-
ning Commission members from Weld County and seven county planning Commission
members from Larimer County.
3. The Policy Board shall be comprised of twelve members: three County
Commissioners from Weld County, three County Commissioners from Larimer
County, three elected officials representing the towns of Weld County
appointed by the Weld County Commissioners, three elected officials repre-
senting the towns of Larimer County appointed by the Larimer County Commis-
sioners. The terms of the appointed representatives shall be two from each
county appointed for two years, and one from each county appointed for one
year. If an elected official is unable to fill out his term as an elected
official, new appointments shall be made by the County Commissioners in
January to fill out the unexpired term. Members may be reappointed.
4. Members shall serve without compensation, except that reasonable expenses may
be allowed.
Officers:
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1. The Planning Commission shall organize annually at the first regular meeting
in the new year.
2. The Policy Board and Advisory Board shall each elect a chairman and vice-
chairman for terms of one year, subject to re-election. The chairman and
vice-chairman shall be elected from different counties with the chairmanship
alternating between Larimer and Weld Counties.
3. The chairman shall preside at all meetings of each board, shall decide all
points of order or procedure, and shall transmit reports and recommendations
of each board.
4. The vice-chairman shall assume the duties of the chairman in his absence.
5. A secretary shall be appointed by each board to be responsible for the keep-
ing of minutes, sending agendas to the members, carrying out routine corres-
pondence, maintaining records and performing such other duties as each board
may require.
Committees:
1. The Policy Board and/or Advisory Board may establish such committees as it
deems advisable and assign each committee specific duties or functions.
2. The chairman of each board shall designate the members of each committee and
shall name the chairman of each committee.
Meetings:
la:': 'ndav 'of the month or o?' led an , o ?`r,r4.. . . ,
it et_ o of the Policy Board ' - nld nora '.1} c llcd for ". :'o ,r
last "Cnursday of the month, with the place of meeting alternating batw.::en
Larimer and Weld Counties.
2. Special meetings and executive sessions of each board ma be called by the
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3. Executive sessions of each board shall consist of two-thirds of the total
membership.
4. A quorum of each board shall consist of two-thirds of the respective member-
ship.
5. A simple majority vote shall break a tie vote.
Recommendations and Reports:
1. All plans, reports, recommendations, and decisions of each board must be
approved by at least two-thirds of the members of each board.
2. Minutes, regional work programs, A-95 items, and other written material
which has been voted upon by one board shall be reviewed by the other. Copies
of all records shall be kept on file in the Larimer County and Weld County
Planning Offices.
Program:
1. The Planning Commission shall prepare a comprehensive regional plan for the
physical, economic and social development of the region. In the preparation
of such comprehensive plan, the Planning Commission shall make careful and
comprehensive surveys and studies of existing conditions and of reasonable or
anticipated future growth. The comprehensive plan shall be made with the
general purpose of guiding and accomplishing a coordinated, adjusted and
harmonious development of the region, which will in accordance with existing
and future needs best promote public health, safety, morals, order, conven-
ience and general welfare, as well as efficiency and economy in the process
of development.
2. The Planning Commission may adopt the comprehensive regional plan as a whole,
or by successive actions it may adopt parts of the plan, amendments, extension,
and additions thereto. Before adopting the comprehensive plan or any part,
amendment, extension or addition, the Planning Commission shall hold at least
one public hearing with at least fifteen days notice of the time and place
for such' hearing given in newspapers of general circulation within the region.
3. The adoption of a comprehensive regional plan or any part thereof shall have
no legal force or effect nor shall it be binding upon any political subdivision.
The comprehensive plan or any part, amendment, extension or addition to the
plan may, however, be adopted by reference by any local planning commission
and governing body within the region.
4. A-95 requests which are to be reviewed by the Policy Board, must have prior
recommendations from the Advisory Board.
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