§ 19-56. Board membership appointments/terms.

(a)

The Ella W. Sharp Park Board of Trustees shall consist of five (5) members, one of whom shall be a member of the city council selected by the city council and four (4) citizen members and (2) alternate citizen members, all of whom shall be appointed by the mayor and confirmed by the city council. Members shall serve without compensation for a term of three (3) years and may be reappointed. The citizen members shall not serve more than three (3) consecutive three-year terms after the effective date of this article without at least a one-year gap in service as a board member. The terms of the board members shall be staggered with existing board members continuing to hold office for the remainder of their current term and with new appointments under this [division] to be made so that no more than two (2) members' terms expire in any year. The board shall meet in public and shall designate at the first meeting of each year a member to act as chair.

(b)

Alternate members may be called on a rotating basis to sit as board members in the absence of a member. An alternate member may also be called to serve in the place of a member for the purpose of reaching a decision on a case in which a member has abstained for reasons of conflict of interest. The alternate member having been appointed shall serve in the case until a final decision has been made. The alternate member shall have the same voting rights as a member.

(Code 1977, § 1.193; Ord. No. 98-7, § 7, 3-17-98; Ord. No. 2012.21, § 1, 9-11-12)