SECTION 23. PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION.
   The City Council shall establish a Planning, and Zoning Commission having five members whose purpose shall be to promote the orderly development of the municipality’s governmental units and its environs. The members of this commission must be residents of the municipality and shall include representatives of business, industry and labor. One member of the commission shall also be a member of City Council and one member shall be the City Manager, who will serve as an ex-officio, non-voting member. The terms of these two members shall be co-extensive with the term of office to which they have been elected or appointed, unless the City Council and City Manager at the first regular meeting of the commission each year designate others to serve as the municipality’s representatives. The City Manager will nominate one member of Council and four residents of the City who are qualified by knowledge and experience in matters pertaining to the development of the municipality, to serve on the commission. The appointees must then be confirmed by City Council. The appointments of the four residents will be one member for one year, one member for two years and two members for three years respectively when first selected. Thereafter members shall be selected for terms of three years each. A member may be reappointed to his/her position on the commission. The commission shall fix the time for holding regular meetings, but it shall meet at least once in the months of January, April, July and October. All activities of the commission will be consistent with Chapter eight, Article twenty-four of the official Code of West Virginia.