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2003 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 7.10 and 8.06, as amended, of Chapter 542 of the Acts of Assembly of 1990 are amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 7.10. Youth services department.
A. Generally. - There shall be a youth services department consisting of a
youth services director and such other officers and employees of the department
as may be authorized by city council. The department, under the supervision of
the city manager, shall serve as staff for the Bristol, Virginia youth services
citizens citizens' board and city council on youth youth-related matters.
B. Youth services citizens board. - There shall be a Bristol, Virginia, youth
services citizens board consisting of fifteen 14 members, or as required by
general law or local ordinance, all of whom shall be residents of the City of
Bristol, Virginia. Two Four of the members shall be under eighteen 18
years of age; two of the members shall be from agencies or groups concerned with youth services; two of the members
shall be from professions, including law, medicine or education, having an interest and concern with the problems of
young persons; two of the members shall be members of the business community.
Two members of the board will be parents and the remainder of the members of
the board may be chosen by the council from the general residents of the city.
The term of office shall be for three years and no member shall be appointed to
more than two successive terms. The board may adopt its own by-laws for
internal operation, subject to approval by city council.
C. Function. - The purpose of the youth services department and youth services
citizens board is to establish goals and priorities for city-wide youth
services, to assist in coordination and planning for comprehensive youth
services within the public and private sector, to serve in advisory capacity to
the council with respect to youth services and programs, to establish goals and
objectives in compliance with all minimum standards of the Delinquency
Prevention and Youth Development Act for services to youth in the City of
Bristol, Virginia, and to perform such other duties and obligations as may from
time to time be delegated to them by the Department of Corrections, state law
and the city council for the City of Bristol, Virginia.
§ 8.06. Bristol Virginia Utilities Board.
There shall be a Bristol Virginia Utilities Board consisting of five seven
members who, six of whom shall be residents of the City of Bristol,
Virginia. One Two of the members of the board shall be a member members of
the city council selected by the council and the remaining four shall be
non-council-member citizens of the City of Bristol, Virginia, appointed by
the council. The term of office for the councilmanic member council members
shall be coincident coincide with his term in office, and their terms on
council with no other limitation on the number of terms they may serve. The
terms of office of the citizen members shall be for three years. No citizen member
shall be appointed to more than two successive terms of office. The adoption
of this charter will in no way affect the term of any member of the Bristol Virginia
Utilities Board currently in office and each shall serve out the remainder of his
present term.
In addition to the five six resident members above, there may, at the
discretion of the city council for the City of Bristol, Virginia, be a sixth
seventh member of the Bristol Virginia Utilities Board appointed for a term of
one year at the discretion of the city council, who shall be appointed from
among the members of the Board of Supervisors for Washington County, Virginia. That
member's role shall be to represent the interests of those citizens of Washington County,
Virginia, who are served by the electrical division of the purchase electricity
from Bristol Virginia Utilities Board. Therefore, that county member shall
have the right to vote only on matters before the Board affecting the operation
of the electrical system. Unless invited by a majority of the other members to
do so, that member will not be entitled to attend closed meetings (as defined
by § 2.1-341 2.2-3711 of the Code of Virginia of 1950, as amended) that are
closed for the purpose of discussing matters unrelated to the electrical system.
The members of the Bristol Virginia Utilities Board may be allowed their
expenses while engaged in the business of the board in accordance with this
charter. Such expense and allowance shall constitute a cost of operation and
maintenance of such utility systems and shall be prorated equally among the
water, electrical and sewer systems each of the systems it manages.
The utilities board Bristol Virginia Utilities Board shall have the power and
duty to manage a division of the city to be known as Bristol, Virginia
Utilities, or "BVU." BVU shall operate the electric, power and light system,
the water system and the sanitary sewage system of the city directly for
subcontracting public lighting, water and sewerage, telecommunications,
Internet and other communications and information systems and services of the City
directly or it may subcontract such functions. The board BVU shall construct,
maintain and operate all facilities necessary thereto, shall sell and distribute
to the public electric power, light, water and sewer services,
telecommunications, Internet and communication, information and other services as
authorized, and shall collect the rates and charges provided for such services
by city council. With respect to any service managed and controlled by the Bristol
Virginia Utilities Board, the council may, by contract or otherwise, delegate or
abrogate its rate-making power.
The Bristol Virginia Utilities Board may appoint a general manager director of
the board of BVU and may provide for such other employees and officers as to it
may be deemed expedient and proper, and the board shall have sole control and management of such
employees and the operations of utilities for which it is responsible, except
for rate-making powers which are reserved to city council, notwithstanding the
provisions of §§ 5.03, 5.05, 7.01, 7.03 and 7.04, and any other sections of
this charter.