(a) There is hereby created a Planning Commission consisting of the Mayor, Street Commissioner, City Engineer and four citizen members who shall be electors of the City and shall be appointed by a majority vote of the members of the Council for terms of six years each. The three citizen members of the City Planning Commission under the prior Charter shall continue as members of the Planning Commission under this revised Charter until the expiration of their terms of office. The fourth citizen member shall be appointed for a term of office that will assure that the term of two members shall exire every second year. No citizen member shall serve more than two consecutive terms.
(Amended 11-4-97.)
(Amended 11-4-97.)
(b) The powers, duties, and functions of the Planning Commission, and limitations thereon, shall be prescribed by ordinance or resolution, but until such ordinance or resolution shall be passed it shall have those powers, duties and functions conferred on City Planning Commissions by the general laws, as are not in conflict with this Charter.