(a) Generally. A Board of Review is hereby established in and for the City in accordance with Chapter IV, Section 30, of the City Charter, and M.S.A. 7.28, as amended. The Board shall be composed of three members who are freeholders and qualified electors and residents of the City.
(b) Additional Members. When circumstances warrant, the City Council may appoint an additional three members to serve as members of the Board for a term of one year and to assist in the general functions described in this chapter when exigent circumstances, in the opinion of the City Council and the City Assessor, warrant an expected increase in demand for appeals to the Board. Such additional members shall be appointed by City Council, and two thirds shall be freeholders and qualified electors and residents of the City. Such additional members shall serve in the same capacity as general members of the Board for their term of appointment, and the appointment of such members must be submitted to the City Council prior to the first scheduled meeting of the Board in any given year. Appointments shall expire on January 1 of the next following year from which the appointment is made, and such appointments shall not carry over into the next calendar year.
(c) Alternate members. The City Council may appoint not more than two alternate members to the Board of Review for the same term as regular members.
(1) Each alternate member shall meet the all of the same qualifications as a regular member.
(2) Alternate members shall be called to perform the duties of a regular member in the absence of any regular member or for the purpose of reaching a decision in issues protested in which a regular member has abstained for reasons of conflict of interest.
(Res. 93-91. Passed 2-22-93; Res. 08-24A. Passed 1-28-08; Res. 2019-378A. Passed 10-16-19.)