(A) The Village Planning Commission shall consist of five members. The Village Manager or a person designated by the Village Manager, the Village President, one or more members of the Village Council, or any combination thereof, may be appointed to the Village Planning Commission as ex officio members with full voting rights on the Planning Commission, provided that these officials constitute no more than one-third of the total membership on the Planning Commission. Except as provided herein, an elected official or employee of the village, however, shall not be eligible to be a member of the Village Planning Commission. Members of the Village Planning Commission shall be qualified electors of the village, except two members may be individuals who are not qualified electors of the village. In addition, members of the Village Planning Commission shall be representative of the entire geography of the village to the extent practicable and shall be representative of important segments of the village, such as the economic, governmental, educational, and social development of the village, in accordance with the major interests as they exist in the village, such as agricultural, natural resources, recreation, education, public health, government, transportation, industry, and commerce.
(B) All members of the Village Planning Commission shall be appointed by the Village President, subject to the approval by a majority vote of the entire Village Council.
(C) All appointed members of the Village Planning Commission may be compensated at a rate to be determined by the Village Council.
(D) Except for any ex officio members, the term of each appointed member shall be three years or until his or her successor is appointed, except that the respective terms of approximately one-third of the non ex officio members first appointed shall be for one year and the respective terms of approximately one-third of the non ex officio members first appointed shall be for two years, so that as nearly as possible the terms of one-third of the non ex officio members of the Planning Commission will expire each year. If appointed to the Village Planning Commission, the term of the Village President shall correspond to his or her term as Village President, the term of the Village Manager or person designated by the Village Manager shall expire with the term of the Village President who appointed the Village Manager, and the term of any member appointed from the Village Council shall expire with his or her term on the Village Council.
(E) After written charges and a public hearing before the Village Council, a member of the Village Planning Commission, including any ex officio member, may be removed from office for misfeasance, malfeasance, or nonfeasance in office by the Village Council. The failure of a Planning Commission member to disclose to the Planning Commission a potential conflict of interest, as defined in § 32.05, shall constitute malfeasance in office. The failure of a Planning Commission member to regularly attend scheduled meetings of the Planning Commission shall constitute nonfeasance in office. The Planning Commission Secretary shall report to the Village Council when a Planning Commission member has failed to attend three consecutive Planning Commission meetings.
(F) A vacancy on the Village Planning Commission occurring otherwise than through the expiration of a member’s term shall be filled for the unexpired term in the same manner as the original appointment.
(Ord. 5 of 2018, passed 2-12-2018)