Because certain conditions appropriately pertain to the appointment of all commissioners and to their obligations of their offices, such conditions are set forth collectively in this chapter.
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For purposes of this chapter, the use of the word "commissioner" shall include membership on any city council-appointed body, including commissions, committees and boards.
B. 
For purposes of this chapter, the word "commission" includes any city council-created or appointed commission, committee or board.
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The city council shall use the following appointment process, except as may otherwise be determined by majority vote of the city council, as to the appointment of city commission members:
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Applicants must complete an application for each commission he/she is applying for and submit the application(s) to the city clerk's office. All qualified candidate applications will be forwarded to city council for review. In order to be considered a qualified candidate, an applicant must, at a minimum, be a resident and be at least eighteen years of age.
B. 
Unless specifically provided by ordinance that an appointment will be a direct appointment, all appointments will be at-large appointments. At-large commission members will be appointed by majority vote of the city council. At-large commission members' appointment will be for two-year terms, unless otherwise indicated by ordinance. The terms of office shall be staggered so that the terms of approximately half of the membership of each commission expires each year, or in the event of a four-year term then every other year.
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Where a direct appointment is provided, the appointment by a city council member to a commission must be approved by majority vote of the council. All directly appointed commission members will serve two-year terms with terms running concurrent with the appointing city council member's term or remainder of term.
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Commission applicants shall be interviewed by the city council during a special meeting for that purpose. Alternatively, the city council may provide other direction on how the applicants should be evaluated prior to appointments being made.
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All commission members shall continue in office until their successors are appointed.
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The city council shall make appointments for unscheduled vacancies in the same manner as appointments for full terms. The person appointed to fill an unscheduled vacancy will serve for the remainder of the term.
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No person shall concurrently serve on two or more commissions, unless the city council determines there is no conflict serving in the roles.
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City employees are not eligible to serve as members of any commission, unless specifically provided by ordinance or resolution.
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All appointed commission members shall serve at the pleasure of the city council unless otherwise provided by law. Removals are entirely within the council's discretion, and may be with or without cause.
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At-large appointments may be removed at any time by a majority vote of the city council.
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Direct appointment may be removed by the city council member who appointed that person, or by a majority vote of the city council.
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Where a city council member leaves office before the expiration of his or her term, his or her successor may remove or retain the former council member's directly appointed commissioners without a vote of the entire council.
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All vacancies occurring on commissions shall be publicly announced and advertised. The expiration of the term of an incumbent commission member shall be considered a vacancy within the meaning of this section.
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Any commissioner appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which his or her predecessor was appointed shall be deemed to be appointed for the remainder of such term.
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Commissioners are required to attend, and diligently participate in, all meetings of the commission of which they are members. Any commissioner who shall have missed three consecutive regular meetings of the commission of which he or she is a member, and who shall have failed to file, with the clerk of the body of which he or she is a member within ten days following the third absence, a written request to be excused from any of such absences, or who is absent in excess of twenty-five percent of the regularly scheduled meetings of such commission during any year of his or her membership, shall be deemed to have resigned from such commission. If a request to be excused is filed and is granted by the city council that person's membership shall continue, but if said request is denied his or her membership on such commission shall be thereby terminated. Nothing stated herein shall prevent the reappointment by the council of any person to any commission from which that person has resigned, been deemed to have resigned, or from which that person's membership has been terminated.
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Except as otherwise provided by ordinance or resolution, members of commissions shall serve without compensation. When approved by the city manager or designee, and supported by appropriate documentation, commissioners may be reimbursed for reasonable and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties, provided the expenditure was in accordance with city policy.
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Annually, each commission/committee shall elect one of its members as chair and another of its members as vice-chair, and each shall hold office for one year or until a successor is elected unless otherwise provided by ordinance.
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The city council, in its discretion, may adopt one or more resolutions setting forth rules of procedure and other administrative practices for a commission. In the absence of any specific rules adopted to the contrary, a commission may adopt its own rules to establish meeting dates and times and other procedural rules. In the event of any conflict, the provisions of this code shall govern over any council resolution, which shall in turn prevail over any rules adopted by a commission.
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Relatives of a city council member, city manager, department director, or a primary assistant of the city manager, shall not be eligible for appointment to any commission. For purposes of this section the term "relatives" includes: a spouse; parent (including foster); sibling (including foster and step); children (including adoptive, foster or step); in-laws; grandparent or grandchild; aunt or uncle, niece or nephew; and any other legally related person living in the same household as the city council member, city manager, department director or primary assistant of the city manager.
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