The City Council shall use the following appointment process, except as may otherwise be determined by majority vote of the City Council, as to the appointment of City Commission/Committee members:
A. Applicants must complete an application for each Commission/ Committee he/she is applying for and submit the application(s) to the City Clerk’s Office. All qualified candidate applications will be forwarded to City Council for review. In order to be considered a qualified candidate, an applicant must, at a minimum, be a resident of the City and be at least 18 years of age.
B. City Council will ratify direct appointments prior to making at-large appointments. All directly appointed Commission/Committee members will serve four-year terms with terms running concurrent with the appointing City Council member’s term or remainder of term.
C. At-large Commission/Committee applicants shall be interviewed by a panel consisting of the Mayor, or his/her designee from the City Council; a member of the City Council designated by the Mayor; and the chair (or his/her Commission/Committee designee) of the appropriate Commission/Committee. The interview panel will provide a ranked list of qualified at- large candidates to the City Council for appointment. At-large Commission/Committee members will be appointed by City Council majority vote. At-large Commission/Committee members’ appointment will be staggered two full consecutive four-year terms.
D. All Commission/Committee members shall continue in office until their successors are appointed.
E. City Council shall make appointments for unscheduled vacancies in the same manner as appointments for full terms. The person appointed to fill an unscheduled vacancy will serve for the remainder of the term. Partial terms do not count as a term for the purposes of term limits.
F. No person shall concurrently serve on any Commission or Committee at anytime.
G. City employees are not eligible to serve on any Commission or Committee, except for the Investment Advisory Committee as set forth in the City’s investment policy.
H. All appointed Commission/Committee members shall serve at the pleasure of the City Council unless otherwise provided by law. Any Commission/Committee member may be removed at any time by the City Council member appointing that member or by a four-fifths vote of the City Council.
I. Effective May 7, 2021, all Commissions and Committees will consist of five directly appointed members with the exception of the Infrastructure and Natural Resources Advisory Committee which will have five directly appointed members and four at-large members, the Library Board of Trustees which will have appointments as required by state law and the Investment Advisory Committee, Parks and Recreation Commission, Transportation and Circulation Commission and Active Transportation Committee which have membership set by resolution and/ or City Investment Policy. (Ord. 3297 § 1, 2021; Ord. 3258 § 3, 2018)