CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION

ORDINANCE NO. 4164

AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE COMPOSITION OF THE GRAND JUNCTION FORESTRY BOARD TO ALLOW FOR AN ALTERNATE POSITION

RECITALS.

The Grand Junction Forestry Board (“Board”) was established in 1981 to act as a reviewing body for the purpose of determining professional qualifications and competence to engage in the business of cutting, trimming, pruning, spraying or removing trees by giving written, oral and practical license examinations. The Board shall recommend to the City Council adoption of rules and regulations pertaining to the tree service business in the city, and it may hear complaints from any citizen of the city, including any of its own members, relating to the tree service business.

The Board is composed of five members who are appointed by the City Council. A quorum is three members. In order to help ensure that a quorum is available for the regular meetings, the City Council hereby finds that it is prudent to appoint an alternate member who can serve in the place of a regular member when a member is absent.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED THAT:

Chapter 40, Vegetation, Section 26 (a) of the Municipal Code of Ordinances, is hereby amended to read as follows.

Sec. 40-26. Created; composition; terms; officers.

 (a) There is hereby created a board to be known as the forestry board. The board shall be composed of five members and one alternate member who shall be appointed by the city council. The board shall include three persons selected from the following categories: a professional arborist, a nursery person, a landscape designer, a pesticide applicator and a representative of the state forest service. The other two members of the board may be lay persons. The alternate member shall otherwise have the qualifications of other members of the Board. Each alternate member shall attend all meetings and shall serve during the temporary unavailability, including recusal, of any regular Board member as may be necessary or required. The alternate member, in addition to other duties prescribed by this Code, shall be allowed to vote in the absence of a regular member. Terms of service shall be three years. When a regular member resigns, is removed or is no longer eligible to hold a seat on the Board, the alternate may fill the vacancy if the alternate meets the same qualifications as the member to be replaced. The City Council shall then name a replacement alternate. A chairperson and a vice-chairperson shall be elected each year and vacancies owing to death or resignation shall be filled by appointment for the unexpired term.

Introduced on first reading this 2^nd day of January, 2008.

Passed, adopted and ordered published this 16^th day of January, 2008.

             /s/: James J. Doody

             President of the Council

ATTEST:

/s/: Stephanie Tuin

City Clerk