(A) The agency shall administer its programs through an administering board. The administering Board shall have such powers and duties as possessed by the Board of directors of any private, nonprofit corporation incorporated in the commonwealth of Kentucky, including those specified by the rules and regulations of the community services administration of the United States Government, Kentucky State Department of Health and Human Services, KRS 273.439, and such other powers delegated to it by the Mayor, including but not limited to the following:
(1) To appoint the executive Director of the community action agency;
(2) To determine major personnel, organization, fiscal and program policies;
(3) To determine overall program plans and priorities for the community action agency, including provisions for evaluating progress against performance;
(4) To make final approval of all program proposals and budgets;
(5) To enforce compliance with all conditions of all grants contracts;
(6) To oversee the extent and the quality of the participation of the poor in the programs of the community action agency;
(7) To determine rules and procedures for the administering board; and
(8) To select the officers and the executive Committee, if any, of the administering board.
(B) The administering Board shall be broadly representative of the community and shall be composed of not less than 27 members. One-third of the members shall be public officials including the Mayor, or his or her representatives, who should be public officials with responsibilities for programs that are directly involved in antipoverty efforts such as school, welfare, health, housing, and urban renewal and employment service officials; one-third of the members shall be representatives from the impoverished areas of Jefferson County; and one-third of the members shall be officials or members of business, industry, labor, religious, private welfare, private education, significant minority groups, and other major private groups and interests located and operating in the community.
(C) Representatives from identified impoverished areas of Jefferson County shall be truly representative of those low-income neighborhoods and must reside in the neighborhood represented.
(D) The initial appointments of members to the administering Board shall be made by the Mayor, and members other than public officials or their representatives, shall be selected from names submitted by the impoverished areas and by organizations, agencies, or groups selected by the designating officials to be represented on the Board. Thereafter the filling of vacancies occurring in the administering Board by reason of expiration of a term of a member of the administering Board or for any other cause shall be made by the Mayor of those persons selected by the administering Board by a majority vote from names submitted by the various organizations, agencies, or groups selected to be represented on the Board. However, vacancies occurring among the representatives of the identified impoverished areas shall be filled by a majority vote of the members of the administering Board from a list of names submitted by the appropriate local neighborhood agency. However, a vacancy in the group of public officials shall always be filled by the appointment of the Mayor.
(E) Members of the administering Board, other than public officials, shall not serve for more than three consecutive years, or a total of six years.
(F) The administering Board shall elect a chairman from among its members who shall serve for a period of one year or until his or her successor is elected and qualified.
(G) A quorum of the administering Board shall consist of 50 percent of the current total membership of the Board. The administering Board may adopt such rules of procedure and bylaws as it deems necessary in order to accomplish the purposes set forth hereinabove.
(1999 Lou. Code, § 35.056) (Lou. Ord. No. 109-1975, effective 7-1-1975; Lou. Am. Ord. No. 69-1990, approved 3-15-1990; Lou. Metro Am. Ord. No. 119-2007, approved 7-2-2007)
