HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 052269C - Amendment To City-County By-Laws - 05_22_1969�y JOINT RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Lubbock and the Commissioners
Court of the County of Lubbock heretofore agreed to the joint operation and admix
tration of a City --County Health program including a City -County Welfare Depart-
ment; and
WHEREAS, the City of Lubbock and the County of Lubbock deem it expedient
and in the public interest to change the composition and number of directors com-
prising the City -County Welfare Board; and
WHEREAS, such Advisory Board was created by the said governmental units
and further.. Section 4 of Article VIII of the By -Laws of the Lubbock City -County
Welfare Board, provides that such By -Laws may be amended by a joint resolution
of the City Council and the Commissioners Court; NOW THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF I�UBBOCK AND T
COMMISSIONERS COURT OF THE COUNTY OF LUBBOCK, ACTING JOINTLY:
Section 1. THAT the By -Laws of the Lubbock City -County Welfare Board BE
and are hereby amended by adding a new Section 2 to Article II thereof which shall
hereafter read as follows:
"Section 2, The City -County Welfare Board shall be composed
of seven (7) members whose qualifications and terms of office
shall continue to be those established in the Joint Resolution `
authorizing the present City -County Welfare Board.
(a) The governmental unit, either the City of Lubbock or
the County of Lubbock, which contributes the major portion
of the funds available to such City -County Welfare Board is
henceforth entitled to appoint the majority of the City -
County Welfare Board; that is, the major contributor shall
be entitled to appoint four (4) members to the Board, with
the lesser contributor appointing three (3) members to the
Board.
(b) The change in the number of directors and the method
of appointing succeeding directors shall take effect upon
the resignation or expiration of term of any of the present
directors of the City -County Welfare Board. In the event
such resignation or expiration of term still leaves the Board
with a number exceeding seven (7), no replacements shall be
appointed, but in the event resignations or expiration of terms
enable appointments to be made within the limit of seven (7)
directors, such appointments shall be made in accordance
with the method set forth in Subsection (a) above."
Section 2. THE above amendment to the By --Laws of the Lubbock City -County
Welfare Board shall become effective upon and after the passage of this resolution
by the City Council of the City of Lubbock and the Commissioners Court of the
County of Lubbock.
APPROVED:
Fred O. Senter, Jry/Cio Attorney
Passed by the Commissioners Court of the County of Lubbock this 26ttlay
of May 1969.
// RODRICK L. SHAW, COUNTY JUDGE
ATTEST:
Fl(5e SwensonjMounty Clerk
m Purdom, C))Znty Attorney
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