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HomeMy WebLinkAbout11966 ORD - 03/27/1974URR:HG:jkh:3- 27 -74; 2nd AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING THE COASTAL BEND MANPOWER PLANNING COUNCIL; DESIGNATING SAID COUNCIL AS AN ADVISORY BODY TO THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, WHICH CITY IS THE PRIME SPONSOR OR THE ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT OF MANPOWER PROGRAMS IN STATE PLANNING REGION NUMBER 20; DESIGNATING THE MEMBERSHIP OF SAID COUNCIL; PROVIDING FOR A CHAIRMAN AND OTHER OFFICERS; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, the City of Corpus Christi, a municipal corporation, body politic and home rule city under the laws of the State of Texas, has obtained a grant from the United States Department of Labor, Manpower Administration, denominated contract number 48- 6- 03 -M -74. MA (DAL) FL3 -2 APR. 73, for the operation of a Manpower Program; and WHEREAS, the "Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 ", 42 USCA Sec. 2809 et seq, requires that a planning council be established by the prime sponsor of such manpower program; and WHEREAS, the City is now or will shortly be named the prime sponsor under the terms of the cited Act for Manpower programs within the Texas State Planning Region No. 20; or alternatively, the City will be designated the administrative unit to operate the program recited herein with the consortium formed hereby being the prime sponsor; and WHEREAS, the City Council has determined that the appointment of such a planning council will provide needed recommendations regarding program plans and basic goals, policies and procedures, to monitor and provide for objective evaluations of employment and training programs con- ducted in the prime sponsorship area, and to provide for continuing analysis of needs for employment, training, and related services in this area: NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1. That there is hereby established in compliance with the afore cited "Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973" the Coastal Bend Manpower Planning Council to serve as an advisory body to the Prime Sponsor or Administrative Unit of manpower programs in State Planning Region Number 20. The Planning Council shall advise the prime sponsor in the setting of basic goals, policies and procedures for its program under the Act. It shall make recommendations regarding program plans, and provide for con- tinuing analyses of needs for employment, training and related services in such areas. The Planning Council shall monitor all manpower programs under the Act and provide for objective evaluations of manpower and related programs operating in the prime sponsor's area, for the purpose of improving the utilization and coordination of the delivery of such services. The procedures for evaluating programs relating to the Act will be developed in cooperation with the agencies affected. The Planning Council shall make recommendations based upon its analyses to the prime sponsor, which will consider them in the context of its overall decisionmaking responsibility. Each prime sponsor shall, to the extent practical; include as appointments to its Planning Council members who are representative of the client community, community -based organizations, the Employment Service, education and training agencies and institutions, business, labor, and, where appropriate, agriculture. Persons representative of other interested groups may also be appointed. The prime sponsor shall appoint a chairman of the Planning Council and provide professional, clerical, and technical staff to serve it. Funds for supportive services and related staff costs for the Planning Council may be made available from a prime sponsor's basic allocation. Final decisions with respect to recommendations of the Planning Council shall be made by the Prime Sponsor or Administrative Unit, whichever is.applicable. The membership of the Manpower Planning Council shall consist of twenty -four (24) members, including the chairman, who shall be designated and appointed by the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi. Twelve (12) members shall be appointed from within the City limits of Corpus Christi by the City Council to represent the City. The remaining twelve members shall be selected from, and representative of, the twelve counties participating -2- in the program. Each County Commissioners Court shall nominate to the City Council, subject to its approval, its representative on the council. If any participating county(s) declines representation that county's representation on the council will be given to other counties according to population in descending order. If a county declines representation, its representation shall go to the largest population county and if a second county declines,its representation shall go to the second highest population county. No one county shall exceed one additional representative until all remaining counties have been offered the opportunity to accept unclaimed representation from the declining county and so forth. The population of Nueces County will not include the population of the City of Corpus Christi. Each representative shall be appointed to represent the appointing agency. The Manpower Planning Council shall have the Chairman as designated above and such other officers and committees, including a Vice Chairman and Secre- tary and that the Committee deems necessary to achieve its purposes and duties and as selected by the membership of the Council. SECTION 2. The necessity to establish the Coastal Bend Manpower Planning Council creates a public emergency and an imperative public necessity requiring the suspension of the Charter rule that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed finally on the date of its introduction but that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three several meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor having declared such emergency and necessity to exist, and having requested the suspension of the Charter rule and that this ordinance be passed finally on the date of its introduction and take effect and be in full force and effect from and after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, this theay of March, 1974. ATTEST. City Secretary MAYOR 1 THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS P �D Y OF MARCH. 197 y Ci Attorne / • Corpus Christi, Texas lv�d.y of //! 19-zj/ TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL Corpus Christi, Texas For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the foregoing ordinance, a public emergency and imperative necessity exist for the suspen- sion of the Charter rule or requirement that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed finally on the date it is introduced, and that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three meetings of the City Council; I, therefore, request that you suspend said Charter rule or requirement and pass this ordi- nance finally on the date it is introduced, or at the present meeting of the City Council. Respectfully, MAYOR THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote: Jason Luby James T. Acuff Rev. Harold T. Branch Thomas V. Gonzales Ricardo Gonzalez Gabe Lozano, Sr. J. Howard Stark The above ordinance was passed by the following vote: Jason Luby Janes T. Acuff acl Rev, Harold T. Branch Thomas V. Gonzales Ricardo Gonzalez Gabe Lozano, Sr. J. Howard Stark 1