The EZDA is to review, process, and certify applications for state enterprise zone tax incentives. Promoting the development of the enterprise zone, including preparing, purchasing, and distributing advertising, literature, and other material concerning the enterprise zone and its benefits. Ideas that will encourage or foster economic development. For example, an idea that will remove or streamline regulatory barriers or a program that will enhance the community and its appeal.
PERSONNEL BOARD
The personnel board shall receive and investigate any complaints or grievances filed by any employment applicant or any employee. It shall be the responsibility of the personnel board to ensure the city's compliance with all federal, state, and local laws affecting employment. The personnel board shall also make periodic reports to the commission regarding any complaints or investigation and its findings and recommendations.
All members of the personnel board must be residents, business owners or property owners in the city for at least six months prior to appointment.
The personnel board shall consist of five members appointed by the commission.
PLDRC(PLANNING BOARD)
The commission shall have the general responsibility for the conduct of the city's comprehensive planning program and review of applications for development orders. Additionally, the commission shall hear and make recommendations to the city commission regarding applications from the city commission, any department or agency of city government, or from any person for amendment of these regulations, approval of a special exception, or approval of a variance.
The planning and land development regulation commission shall prepare, or cause to be prepared, the elements of the comprehensive plan required in F.S. § 163.3177, known as the Local Government Comprehensive Planning and Land Development Regulation Act (LGCPLDRA) and other appropriate plan elements, and shall make recommendation regarding the comprehensive plan to the city commission. It shall have the general responsibility for the conduct of the comprehensive planning program. It shall comply with all requirements of the LGCPLDRA, and shall monitor and oversee the effectiveness and status of the comprehensive plan, and recommend to the city commission such changes in the comprehensive plan as may from time to time be required. It shall perform any other duties assigned by the city commission, and may prepare and recommend to the city commission any other proposals to implement the comprehensive plan.
The PLDRC shall have five members appointed by the city commission for a term of three years. Each member shall reside within the city limits.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD
Provides assistance services directed toward encouraging the startup, retention and expansion of Oak Hill businesses and jobs, particularly with small businesses; creation of new jobs and employment opportunities; and diversification of economic activity and strengthening the City's tax base.
HISTORICAL BOARD
The identification, protection, enhancement, perpetuation and use of districts, sites, buildings, structures, objects and areas that are reminders of past eras, events and persons important in local, state, or national history, or which provide significant examples of architectural styles of the past, or which are unique and irreplaceable assets to the city and its neighborhoods, or which provide this and future generations examples of the physical surroundings in which past generations lived;
The enhancement of property values, the stabilization of neighborhoods and business centers of the city, the increase of economic and financial benefits to the city and its inhabitants, and the promotion of local interests;
The preservation and enhancement of varied architectural styles, reflecting the city's cultural, social, economic, political, and architectural history; and
The enrichment of human life in its educational and cultural dimensions in order to serve spiritual as well as material needs by fostering knowledge of the living heritage of the past.
The board shall consist of five residents of the city and, if desired by the commission, two nonresidents who may possess special expertise relating to historical preservation.
WATERFRONT BOARD
The Waterfront Committee advises the City Commission on issues related to the preservation and enhancement of the Oak Hill waterfront.
