File #: 210585    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 6/2/2021 In control: Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee
On agenda: 7/21/2021 Final action: 7/22/2021
Title: Amending Chapter 2, Code of Ordinances, by repealing Sections 2-964, entitled Commission established; membership; officers, and 2-965 entitled Duties of commission, and enacting in lieu thereof new sections of like numbers and subject matter.
Attachments: 1. compared version, 2. fact sheet, 3. Compared version, 4. 210585 sub, 5. Details
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR ORDINANCE NO. 210585

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Amending Chapter 2, Code of Ordinances, by repealing Sections 2-964, entitled Commission established; membership; officers, and 2-965 entitled Duties of commission, and enacting in lieu thereof new sections of like numbers and subject matter.

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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That Chapter 2, Code of Ordinances of the City of Kansas City, Missouri, is hereby amended by repealing Sections 2-964, entitled Commission established; membership; officers, and 2-965, entitled Commission established; membership; officers, and enacting in lieu thereof new sections, to read as follows:

Sec. 2-964. Commission established; membership; officers.

There is hereby created and established a commission to be known as the Brownfields Commission. The commission shall be composed of 15 members. Eight of those commissioners shall be residents of the city, appointed by the mayor to serve four-year terms, further delineated as follows: three representing citizen and community groups who reside in environmental justice census tracts; one representing regional environmental justice communities; one with expertise in the field of business; one with expertise in the field of real estate development; one with expertise in the field of environmental assessment and remediation; and one being a lawyer member of the Missouri Bar Association with expertise in environmental law. Three additional commissioners shall be the mayor, chairman of the city plan commission and chairman of the board of directors of the economic development corporation of Kansas City, or their designees, who shall be ex officio members of the commission. Four regional commissioners shall be the chief executive of Jackson County, Missouri; the mayor of the Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas; the chief executive of the Mid-America Regional Council; and the chief executive of the Kansas City Area Devel...

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