SEC. 5.13-4. TERMS OF OFFICE AND MEETINGS.

   (a)   Terms of Office. Members of the EC COAC shall serve for two years, except that the members initially appointed to Seats 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 shall serve for three years; thereafter, the members holding these seats shall serve for two years.

   (b)   Term Limits. No member may serve more than two consecutive terms on the EC COAC. For the purpose of these term limits, serving more than half of a term shall count as serving a full term on the committee.

   (c)   Transition from Previous Citizens’ Advisory Committee. Members of the previously established Office of Early Care and Education Citizens’ Advisory Committee seated as of the effective date of Ordinance No. 189-22 shall by operation of law become the initial members of the EC COAC. Their terms of office and term limits shall incorporate their service on the Office of Early Care and Education Citizens’ Advisory Committee, with the effect that their terms of office and term limits will be identical to what they would have been if the Office of Early Care and Education Citizens’ Advisory Committee had not been abolished. Similarly, their service on the Office of Early Care and Education Citizens’ Advisory Committee shall be considered in calculating compliance with the meeting attendance requirement in subsection (d)(1), below. With reference to subsection (d)(2), the bylaws of the Office of Early Care and Education Citizens’ Advisory Committee shall apply to the EC COAC until changed by the EC COAC, and the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Office of Early Care and Education Citizens’ Advisory Committee shall remain in those positions with the EC COAC until changes are made by the EC COAC in accordance with the bylaws adopted by the EC COAC.

   (d)   Meetings.

      (1)   The EC COAC shall meet at least four times each calendar year. Any member of the EC COAC who fails to attend at least half of the meetings held in a calendar year shall be deemed to have resigned from the committee.

      (2)   At its first meeting, the the1 EC COAC shall select a Chair and Vice-Chair. The EC CAC1 shall also adopt bylaws governing its meetings. Five members of the EC COAC shall constitute a quorum of the committee, and the affirmative votes of at least five members of the EC COAC are necessary to constitute approval by the committee.

   (e)   The Department shall provide administrative and clerical support for the EC COAC.

(Added as Sec. 5.123 by Ord. 261-14, File No. 141123, App. 12/19/2014, Eff. 1/18/2015; redesignated and amended by Ord. 189-22, File No. 220808, App. 9/8/2022, Eff. 10/9/2022)

CODIFICATION NOTE

1.   So in Ord. 189-22.