The officers of the College shall be the members of the College Board of Directors (who shall be known as "Board members") and the President of the College. The Board of Directors shall consist of seven Directors to be appointed by the Menominee Tribal Legislature.
The terms of office of the existing Board Chairperson and Directors shall not be changed as a result of the enactment of this Charter.
A. 
The qualifications for appointment as a Board member are as follows:
(1) 
A demonstrated long-term interest in education and/or job training.
(2) 
Enrollment in the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin.
(3) 
General knowledge about postsecondary education.
(4) 
Special expertise which will help the Board of Directors, the President and the President's staff fulfill the mission of the College.
(5) 
Twenty-five years of age, except in the instance where the Legislature chooses to appoint the President of the Student Council of the College to the Board of Directors.
B. 
Each candidate for a position on the Board of Directors shall submit to the Legislature a written statement which demonstrates individual qualifications for the position.
The Legislature shall require each candidate to appear at a legislative confirmation hearing so that the candidate may present an oral statement in support of his or her candidacy and respond to appropriate questions from any Legislator. At the conclusion of the legislative confirmation hearing, the Legislature shall give due and proper consideration to the candidate's qualifications and shall choose to appoint or decline to appoint the individual to the College Board of Directors based solely on his or her individual qualifications to hold such office. The motion to appoint a suitable individual shall contain an appropriate statement as to that individual's qualifications for office.
A. 
Whenever any vacancy shall occur in the office of the Board Chairperson or in the office of any Board member, it shall be filled for the unexplored term by a special appointment by the majority vote of the Board of Directors.
B. 
For the purpose of selecting the candidates from whom the vacancy will be filled, the Board shall publish notice of vacancy for 30 days after such vacancy shall occur. If a vacancy shall occur in the office of Board Chairperson, the Board shall select a new Chairperson from among the existing Board members. The Board of Directors shall select an appropriate person to fill the vacancy based solely on his or her qualifications for the office, and the person's qualifications shall be entered with the official record of the Board's proceedings.
Any Director having entered upon the duties of the office may resign the same in writing to the Board of Directors.
Every person appointed to any office under this Charter shall, before entering upon the duties of office, take and subscribe an oath of office as provided for in the Bylaws at Article IV and file the same with the Clerk of the Secretary of the Menominee Tribal Legislature. Any Board member or administrative officer of the College shall severally, before he or she enters upon the duties of his or her respective office, execute to the College of the Menominee Nation bonds in such form and amounts and upon such conditions as deemed necessary by the Board for the protection of the College.
Any officer of the College, or any person employed in the services of the College, who shall willfully violate or evade any of the provisions of law, or commit any fraud upon the College, or convert any of the public property to his or her own use or knowingly permit any other person to convert it, or by gross or culpable neglect of duty allow the same to be lost to the College, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, in addition to the penalties imposed by Menominee law or other applicable federal law and upon conviction, shall forfeit the office and be excluded forever from receiving or holding any office under the Charter of the College of the Menominee Nation and shall be liable to refund to the College, at the suit of any member of the Menominee Nation or officer of the College, any amount lost to said College by reason of such violation of law.