2.24.030 Powers and responsibilities.
The responsibility and powers of the planning council shall be as follows:
(1) The planning council may act as a planning research and fact finding agency of the members thereof. To that end, it may make such plans, surveys, analyses, researches and reports as are generally authorized or requested. The planning council, upon such request or authority may also:
(a) Make a regional comprehensive plan for the region as defined, or as may be subsequently amended, and as may be agreed upon by the planning council;
(b) Make such refinements of the comprehensive plans or special studies for the participating jurisdictions as may be requested and budgeted for by those jurisdictions and as agreed upon by the planning council;
(c) Make inquiries, investigations, and surveys concerning the resources of the region as defined;
(d) Assemble and analyze the data thus obtained and formulate plans for the conservation of such resources and the systematic utilization and development thereof;
(e) Make recommendation from time to time as to the best methods of such conservation, utilization and development;
(f) Cooperate with other commissions, with the state and with other public agencies in the municipality, state and United States in planning, conservation and development.
(2) The planning council shall, in as far as possible:
(a) Coordinate general planning among and for the several participating jurisdictions;
(b) Provide technical assistance with budget limitations to all of the participating jurisdictions, and;
(c) Promote and expedite orderly development.
(3) The planning council may, within its authorized budget, engage a single director of planning and may authorize him to employ such other personnel as may be necessary to carry out the planning program. The planning council may also engage such other special and professional personnel as may be necessary to carry out the planning program. (Added by § 3 of Agreement adopted Jan. 31, 1966).