(A) Members of the Planning Board shall be appointed for a term of five years and until their successors are appointed and qualify. The appointment of Planning Board members shall be conducted as follows:
(1) One city resident shall be appointed by the City Council in January of each year to a five-year term of office. This five-year term of office shall be deemed to commence on the first day of February during the year in which the appointment to the full term of office is made.
(2) One Planning Board member appointed by the Randolph County Board of Commissioners to provide representation for the city’s extraterritorial planning jurisdiction area shall serve a five-year term of office that expires in 2018. This seat on the Planning Board shall initially be held by the Planning Board member appointed by the Randolph County Board of Commissioners to a five-year term of office in February 2013. Thereafter, the Randolph County Board of Commissioners shall continue to make appointments to this office on a schedule that will require the next appointment to a full term of office to occur in January 2018, and every five years thereafter. The commencement date for these five-year terms of office shall be deemed to be the first day of February during the year in which the appointment to the full term of office is made.
(3) The other member of the Planning Board to be appointed by the Randolph County Board of Commissioners to provide representation for the city’s extraterritorial planning jurisdiction area shall serve a five-year term of office that will commence on February 1, 2014. The initial appointment to this office is to occur in January 2014, and successive appointments shall occur every five years thereafter.
(B) Members of the Planning Board who are residents of the city shall be appointed by the City Council. Members of the Planning Board who are residents of the extraterritorial area shown on the map entitled "City of Asheboro 2012 Revised Extra-Territorial Planning Jurisdiction Area" and recorded in the Office of the Randolph County Register of Deeds in Plat Book 135, Pages 28-34 shall be appointed by the Randolph County Board of Commissioners; provided, that in the event such Board of County Commissioners fails to make any appointment provided for in this section within 90 days after the receipt of a resolution from the City Council requesting that such appointment be made, the City Council may thereupon make such appointment.
(C) Vacancies occurring for reasons other than expiration of terms shall be filled as they occur for the period of the unexpired term.
(D) Faithful attendance at the meetings of the Planning Board is considered a prerequisite for the maintenance of membership on the Board. A Planning Board member who is absent from three of any four consecutive regular meetings is subject to removal from office by the governing board that appointed the individual. When the removal of a Planning Board member for noncompliance with attendance requirements is under consideration, notice of the proposed action and an opportunity to be heard by the appointing authority on the question of the proposed removal from office shall be provided to the Board member facing the possibility of removal from office. Delivery of such notice of the opportunity to be heard shall be deemed to be sufficient if written notice of the opportunity is sent, at least 15 calendar days in advance of the meeting during which removal is to be considered, via first class United States mail to the most recent address provided to the city by the member subject to removal.
(E) On and after February 1, 2023, each member of the Planning Board shall receive a stipend of $150 for each month that the member actively serves on the Planning Board. In order to be deemed to be actively serving on the Planning Board during any specific month, a member of the Board must attend, at a minimum, the regular Planning Board meeting scheduled for the month for which the monthly stipend is to be paid. The actual disbursement of the monthly stipends for Planning Board members shall be made according to a schedule to be developed by the City of Asheboro Finance Department in accordance with the Department’s normal business practices. Irrespective of the number of special meetings that may be held during any specific month, the amount of the monthly stipend for Planning Board members shall not exceed $150.
(‘69 Code, § 2-36) (Ord., passed 1-7-60; Am. Ord., passed 6-29-72; Am. Ord. 12 ORD 3-09, passed 3-5- 09; Am. Ord. 01 ORD 1-13, passed 1-10-13; Am. Ord. 31 ORD 11-13, passed 11-7-13; Am. Ord. 3 ORD 1-23, passed 1-5-23)