§ 25-3. Powers and duties.

(a)

The commission shall serve as an advisory body for the planning department, public works department, city manager and the city council. The commission shall make recommendations and suggest policies to the department, the manager and the city council in matters affecting bicycle and pedestrian needs in the city. Input shall be guided, but not defined by, the City of Mebane Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation Plan, originally adopted by the Mebane City Council in January 2015, as the plan shall change with time and needs.

(b)

The Commission shall assume duties for the City's bicycle and pedestrian needs. The Commission shall make recommendations:

(1)

That advise the public and the city on matters affecting the relationship between bicycle and pedestrian transportation and parks, schools, recreation sites, and other major facilities;

(2)

That ensure that the city's bicycle and pedestrian transportation plan as well as other city plans and ordinances are maintained as relevant and informed planning document for bicycle and pedestrian applications, with amendments to ensure their use;

(3)

That engage and educate the public to advocate for implementing bicycle and pedestrian options throughout the city;

(4)

That facilitate cooperation among governmental agencies and nonprofit partners for the development of networks that serve bicycle and pedestrian needs;

(5)

That assist in the acceptance by the city and, with the approval of the city council, grant, gift, bequest or donation, any personal or real property offered or made available for bicycle and pedestrian purposes and which is deemed to be of relevant present or possible future use. (Any gift, bequest of money or other property, any grant, devise of real or personal property so acquired shall be held by the city, used and finally disposed of in accordance with the terms under which such grant, gift or devise is made and accepted.); and

(6)

That plan, design, construct, and/or operate and maintain infrastructure serving a bicycle and pedestrian need.

(c)

It is the basic function of the city commission to promote bicycling and pedestrian activities for citizens. In so doing, the Planning department and public works department and their commissions are authorized to aid and assist agencies (in line with reasonable and legally correct policies recommended by the bicycle and pedestrian advisory commission and accepted by the city council, which assistance may include public; private, commercial; those which are quasipublic in character, and which, although public in nature, are not under the city's direct jurisdiction (such as schools, churches, hospitals, military installations, orphanages, commercial recreation, business and industrial agencies); as well as civic, neighborhood and service groups in their recreation interests and needs.

( Ord. of 9-11-2017 )