Community Resource Committee

(a) Creation. There is created a Tybee Island Community Resource Committee

(b) Purpose. The purpose of the Tybee Island Community Resource Committee shall be to promote a more sustainable community through energy efficiency, water conservation, food security and efficient transportation.

(c) Membership. The Community Resource Committee shall consist of not less than ten (10) or more than twenty (20) members appointed by the mayor and council. Such appointees being selected on the basis of their knowledge and interest in creating a sustainable community shall serve three-year terms.

(d) Functions and duties. The Community Development Committee shall:

1. Ensure that Tybee Island's sustainability efforts are a source of beauty, pride and abundance – not deprivation.
2. Establish a baseline for energy/water use and develop an ecological footprint analysis as an improvement measurement system.
3. Offer the city guidance and recommendations for implementing sustainable practices in city workplaces.
4. Promote locally generated and distributed energy by renewable sources.
5. Report on project outcomes to the mayor and council.
6. Identify ways of incentivizing energy and water efficiency for Tybee citizens.
7. Identify ways of incentivizing energy, water efficiency and green building practices for the future development of Tybee.
8. Identify and promote low carbon and non-motorized transportation methods.  Encourage use of low impact transportation methods by developing safe multi-use paths including unopened city right of ways.  
9. Promote eco-tourism. 
10. Promote community gardens, fishing, and local food production thereby increasing food security.
11. Promote an awareness of the reduction in our eco-footprint with educational campaigns to motivate citizen action.
12. Lobby state, federal and private entities on behalf of the city's sustainable energy program.

(e) Administration. The Community Development Committee shall elect one of its members as chair and one member as vice-chair and may elect as its secretary one of its own members or, with the approval of the mayor and council, may appoint as secretary an employee of the city.

(f) Rules of procedure. The Community Development Committee may establish rules, bylaws, and regulations not inconsistent with the city charter, ordinances or law, as it deems appropriate and necessary for the fulfillment of its duties or the conduct of its affairs. Copies of such rules, bylaws, and/or regulations shall be filed with the clerk of council.

(g) Meetings. Meetings of the committee shall be scheduled as directed by the chair or the membership. All meetings shall comply with the Georgia Open Meetings Act (O.C.G.A. Sec. 50-14-1 et seq.)

COMMUNITY RESOURCE COMMITTEE ROSTER 

Meetings of the committee shall be scheduled as directed by the chair or the membership. All meetings shall comply with the Georgia Open Meetings Act(O.C.G.A. Sec. 50-14-1 et seq.) The Committee decided at its inaugural meeting that regular meetings will take place the third Monday each month from 4:30-5:30 PM in the City Hall Auditorium.