Any appointed member of a board, committee or commission who is absent from the regular meetings of such board, committee or commission of the Village for 3 consecutive regular meetings of such board, committee or commission and who has not furnished written explanations for his or her absence which are satisfactory to a majority of the Village President and Board of Trustees shall, following the third consecutive absence, be subject to being classified as a resigned member following a hearing before the Village President and Board of Trustees. At least 7 days written notice of a hearing before the Village President and Board of Trustees shall be given to the appointee whose failure to attend is at issue. At the hearing, the appointee may appear personally and present such pertinent evidence as he or she wishes or as the Village President or other individual presiding over the hearing shall request. If, after a hearing, a majority of the Village President and Board of Trustees votes to classify a member as resigned, that member shall be removed from his or her appointed position and there shall be deemed to be a vacancy of such position. The Village President may then appoint a replacement pursuant to whatever provision of this code or state law governs the appointment of persons to the board, committee or commission, subject to Board of Trustees approval, if required by state law. This section is applicable to the boards, committees and commissions created by ordinance and set forth in this chapter or elsewhere in this code, or any other board, committee or commission created by the Village President and Board of Trustees by ordinance pursuant to state law, but excluding the Board of Trustees, Legal, License and Ordinance Committee or any other board, committee or commission made up exclusively of members of the Board of Trustees. To the extent the hearing process set forth herein varies from any hearing process for a particular statutory board, committee or commission set forth in state law, the process for removing appointees to such statutory board, committee or commission set forth in state law shall control.
(Ord. CO-2010-04, passed 2-16-2010)