(a) Membership. There shall be a Personnel Appeals Board consisting of three (3) members appointed by the Council for overlapping terms of three (3) years, except that the members first selected shall be appointed for such terms that the term of one member shall expire annually thereafter. Each member of the Board shall be a qualified elector of the Municipality and shall neither hold nor be a candidate for any public office or Municipal employee. Its members shall serve without compensation. The personnel officer shall provide necessary staff assistance for the Personnel Appeals Board.
(b) Duties. The Personnel Appeals Board shall hear appeals when any officer or employee of the Municipality in the non-exempt service feels aggrieved by action of the personnel officer, the Manager, or by any department head, which suspends, reduces or removes said officer or employee, and requests such hearing. The Board shall have authority to subpoena witnesses, and to require the production of records. For that purpose, Council, by ordinance, shall prescribe the process of citing witnesses, administering oaths and producing evidence, and its enforcement through the Department of Law. The judgment of the Personnel Appeals Board shall be final. (Amended November 6, 1984)