A. In order to allow for appeals provided for hereunder, a three-member Rental Housing/Motel Preservation Appeals Committee is hereby established (the "Appeals Committee").
B. The Appeals Committee shall be convened on an as-needed basis and shall have the power and duty to conduct hearings, receive evidence, and make final decisions on behalf of the City related to appeals by owners aggrieved by an adverse decision of the Director made pursuant to this Chapter.
C. The Appeals Committee shall consist of one member who is a regularly employed City Employee Hearing Officer, one member appointed by the Apartment Association of Orange County, and one member appointed by the Anaheim/Orange County Hotel and Lodging Association. With the exception of the member who is a regularly employed City Employee Hearing Officer, none of the members of the Appeals Committee shall hold any paid office or employment with the City.
D. If either the Apartment Association of Orange County or the Anaheim/Orange County Hotel and Lodging Association shall cease to exist or is unwilling or unable to appoint one of its members serve as a member of the Appeals Committee and so notifies the Director, the Director shall use reasonable efforts to attempt to locate a substitute organization representing the interests of owners of rental housing or motel property, and will approve the participation of one of its members on the Appeals Committee.
E. Members of the Appeals Committee shall be available to attend all appeals hearings and act in those hearings in an unbiased an impartial manner. To the extent a member of the Appeals Committee is unable or unwilling to fulfill these duties, the City Manager may require their removal from the Appeals Committee, and may request the appointing entity to appoint a replacement member. In the event the members of the Appeals Committee appointed by the Apartment Association of Orange County and the Anaheim/Orange County Hotel and Lodging Association are removed or can no longer serve, a replacement member may be appointed according to the requirements of this Section 15.70.130.
F. The one member of the Appeals Committee who is a regularly employed City employee shall be appointed by the City Manager from time to time upon the recommendation of the Director.
G. Members of the Appeals Committee shall serve without compensation. (Ord. 6297 § 1 (part); March 4, 2014: Ord. 6403 § 1 (part); April 4, 2017.)