Municipal Planning Council: Powers, Duties and Responsibilities

The Municipal Planning Council in each district shall work closely with the district Mayor and shall perform the following duties and responsibilities:

(a)Advise the Mayor on all matters affecting the well-being of the community.

(b)Review and approve the Mayors’ requests for expenditures of money from the Municipal Fund as established by § 40118 of this Chapter.

(c)Hold joint public hearings with the Mayor and Vice Mayor, if applicable, on matters affecting the community.

(d)Cooperate with the Mayor and Vice Mayor, if applicable, in whatever manner appropriate to ensure the well-being of the residents of the community.

(e)Promulgate such rules and regulations as necessary for the proper operation of the programs under the jurisdiction of the Mayor, provided however, that said rules and regulations do not infringe on the authority of the Mayor as provided in § 40115 of this Chapter.

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(1)Review and express its support or opposition on all variance applications, zone changes, and government leases involving land within their districts, pursuant to §§ 61623, 61638, and 60115 of Title 21, Guam Code Annotated. The Municipal Planning Council of each municipal district to be affected by other proposed projects reviewed by the Guam Land Use Commission shall review the request and express its support or opposition thereon by resolution adopted by a CH. 40 MAYORS OF GUAM majority of its members, and such resolutions shall be forwarded to the Guam Land Use Commission.

(2)For each variance application, zone change, government lease, conditional use application, and other proposed project reviewed by the Guam Land Use Commission involving land in Guam, the relevant Municipal Planning Council of Guam’s respective villages shall conduct a minimum of two

(2)separate public meetings, pursuant to the requirements of Chapter 8, Title 5 Guam Code (Open Government Law).

(g)The Guam Environmental Agency

(GEPA)and all other government entities authorized to issue citations for violations of litter and defacement laws may deputize persons, after training from the Guam Community College Pro-Tech Institute, to fine violators of litter and defacement laws in the same manner that Mayors and Vice Mayors are empowered in 5 GCA § 40115.

(h)The Municipal Planning Council shall act as the body politic with the power to make its own rules, establish committees, hold hearings, and to prepare, pass, and adopt resolutions. If a resolution from a Municipal Planning Council requests action from I Liheslaturan Guåhan, the resolution shall be received by the Rules Committee, or its equivalent, of I Liheslaturan Guåhan.

(i)Each Municipal Planning Council shall, on or before July 30 of each year, submit a status report on the Municipal Litter and Defacement Fund to I Liheslaturan Guåhan.