Chapter 2.95
MAYOR’S YOUTH COUNCIL
Sections:
2.95.010 Establishment – Composition.
2.95.030 Compensation and staff.
2.95.010 Establishment – Composition.
(A) There is hereby created in the office of the Mayor in the Executive Department a Council to be designated the Mayor’s Youth Council to consist of 25 members.
(B) The members of the Youth Council shall be appointed by the Mayor for a term of one year and shall be appointed annually to serve from June 30th to June 30th.
(C) The Mayor shall appoint each year in the month of June representatives from each public, parochial, or private high school in the City. The Youth Council may appoint other interested groups from throughout the City as are deemed necessary. These appointments shall be representative of community segments or groups interested in or relating to the activities of the youth of the City. [Ord. G-81-53, passed 12-14-81. 1962 Code, Art. 3, Ch. 16, § 1; 1982 Code § 30.185; 1983 Code § 3.30.185.]
2.95.020 Powers and duties.
(A) It shall be the duty of the Mayor’s Youth Council to aid in the coordination and supplementation of the activities and programs of public, private, and religious agencies within the City devoted in whole or in part to the welfare and protection of persons under the age of 21 through advice to and consultation with those agencies and to cooperate therewith in full; to collect data and statistics; to make studies relating to activities of persons under 21; and to make such recommendations to the Mayor as it deems advisable with reference thereto.
(B) It shall make such other recommendations to the Mayor as it deems advisable with reference to problems relating to or created by persons under the age of 21. It shall administer such funds as may be appropriated to the Mayor’s Youth Council by the City or by any public or private agency for the initiation, expansion, or supplementing of recreation projects or youth service projects. It shall adopt such rules for its conduct and guidance as it deems advisable. [Ord. G-81-53, passed 12-14-81. 1962 Code, Art. 3, Ch. 16, § 2; 1982 Code § 30.186; 1983 Code § 3.30.186.]
2.95.030 Compensation and staff.
(A) The members of the Mayor’s Youth Council shall serve without compensation, but their actual expenses and the expenses of the Mayor’s Youth Council, within the amount appropriated therefor, shall be paid with the approval of the Mayor.
(B) The Common Council may authorize and provide funds for the employment by the Youth Council of a Director and such other employees as are deemed necessary. In this event, the Director shall act as secretary to the Youth Council and shall perform such other duties as shall be assigned to him. The Director shall be appointed by the Mayor with the advice of the Youth Council.
(C) The compensation of the Director and all other employees of the Youth Council, as they are from time to time designated and provided for, shall be fixed by the Common Council. [Ord. G-81-53, passed 12-14-81. 1962 Code, Art. 3, Ch. 16, § 3; 1982 Code § 30.187; 1983 Code § 3.30.187.]
2.95.040 Meetings.
Meetings of the Youth Council shall be held upon the call of the president or as determined by the Youth Council. The Mayor shall have the right to call a special meeting of the Youth Council whenever he deems it necessary. [Ord. G-81-53, passed 12-14-81. 1962 Code, Art. 3, Ch. 16, § 4; 1982 Code § 30.188; 1983 Code § 3.30.188.]