(A) Membership to the Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) shall consist of five members. The first member shall be a member of the Planning Commission. The second member may be a member of the Township Board and appointed by the Township Board. The third, fourth and fifth members, and the two alternate members described below shall be appointed by the Township Board from among the electors of the township residing outside of any incorporated areas. Membership shall be representative of the local population including the various interests located in the township.
(B) No elected official shall serve as Chairperson.
(C) No employees or contractors to the Township Board may serve on or be hired by the Zoning Board of Appeals.
(D) Terms of office shall be three years, except for those serving as representatives from the Planning Commission or Township Board. For such representatives, terms shall be limited to the time they are members of their respective commission or board.
(E) Successive members shall be appointed within one month after the preceding member’s expiration date.
(F) The Zoning Board of Appeals is authorized to prepare an annual budget.
(G) Members may be removed by the Township Board for misfeasance, malfeasance or non-feasance in office, based on written charges and after a public hearing.
(H) Where member conflicts of interest exist, such member shall disqualify himself or herself from voting. Failure to do so constitutes malfeasance in office.
(I) The Township Board shall appoint two alternate members to the Zoning Board of Appeals. Each alternate member shall be appointed for a term of three years except that upon the appointment of the first such alternate members, one such alternate member shall be appointed to a term of two years. Thereafter all alternate members shall be appointed to a term of three years. The Chairperson of the Zoning Board of Appeals or in the absence or incapacity of the Chairperson, then the Vice Chairperson or the Secretary of the Zoning Board of Appeals may call either of the alternate members to serve as a regular member whenever:
(1) A regular member is absent from or will be unable to attend one or more meetings of the Zoning Board of Appeals; or
(2) A regular member has abstained for reason of a conflict of interest.
(Ord. passed 7-12-2012, § 15.1)