PUBLIC HEARING
NOTICE
Wheeling City Council will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, July 21, 2015 at 5:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers, 1500 Chapline Street, Wheeling, West Virginia. The proposed amendment to the City Charter will be considered on the above date and time and any qualified voter or any freeholder of the City may appear at the public hearing and file objections in writing. If no objections are filed, the proposed charter amendment shall become operative, following the July 21, 2015 second reading of the ordinance by City Council. The proposed Charter Amendment Ordinance reads as follows:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WHEELING AMENDING SECTION 35 OF THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF WHEELING BY REENACTING SECTION 35, BOARDS AND COMMISSION, TO REFLECT A CHANGE IN THE TERMS OF COMPOSITION OF MEMBERSHIP OF THE GREATER WHEELING SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT AUTHORITY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WHEELING:
Section 1. Section 35 of the Charter of the City of Wheeling is hereby amended by reenacting Section 35, Boards and Commissions, wherein said section concerns the Greater Wheeling Sports and Entertainment Authority. The amended portion of the section is underlined to highlight the amendment and reads as follows:
The Greater Wheeling Sports and Entertainment Authority which previously has been known as the Municipal Auditorium Board, consisting of nine members appointed by Council without regard to their political affiliations, but with regard to their business and professional experience or standing as residents of the City of Wheeling or Ohio County, West Virginia, who shall be residents of the City of Wheeling or Ohio County, West Virginia, and a minimum of one member only of whom shall be a member of Council appointed for a term which shall expire when the member’s term of Council expires.
Section 2. This ordinance shall take effect from and after the date of the second reading of the ordinance pursuant to W. Va. Code Section 8-4-8 and in accord with all procedural notice therein required.
Copies are available in the City Clerk’s Office, 1500 Chapline Street, Wheeling, West Virginia.
Janice L. Jones
City Clerk
Int. June 15, 22, 2015
N.R. June 15, 22, 2015
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