(a) The Community Police Advisory Team shall consist of nine members. Each of the members shall serve for a period of three years and shall be appointed by the Mayor with consent and approval of the City Commission. No member shall serve more than three consecutive terms. After a member has served during three consecutive terms, he shall be ineligible for reappointment to the Community Police Advisory Team until one year has expired since his last date of service on the Advisory Team. Original appointments shall be staggered, such that three originally appointed members shall have a term of three years; three originally appointed members shall have a term of two years; and three originally appointed member shall have a term of one year.
(b) Any vacancy on the Community Police Advisory Team shall be filled as in the case of the original appointment, as set forth herein, for the unexpired term of the member whose vacancy is so filled.
(c) All members of the Community Police Advisory Team shall serve without compensation and shall be subject to removal from office by a majority of the City Commission.
(d) Persons eligible for service on the Community Police Advisory Team shall meet the following qualifications:
(1) Persons serving on another City board or commission shall not be eligible to serve on the Community Police Advisory Team, except for said member currently serving on the Human Relations Board.
(2) All nine Advisory Team members shall be electors of the City. Members shall be community leaders selected to represent neighborhood groups, the business community, the religious community, higher education community, Human Relations Board, and other sectors of the community.
(3) Except as otherwise provided in this section, elected public officials shall not be eligible to serve on the Community Police Advisory Team. A member of a City employee's family, as defined in Section 111.04, shall not be eligible for service.
(4) No person shall be appointed to, or continue to serve as, a member if such person has a criminal felony conviction of any type, or a criminal conviction for an offense against a police officer, such as resisting arrest, assaulting a police officer, or obstructing official business, within the last five (5) years prior to that person's appointment, or at any time during that person's service as a member.
(5) Except as otherwise provided in this section, if any member of the Community Police Advisory Team fails to meet any of the qualifications stated in subsection (d)(1) through (4) hereof, his office shall immediately become vacant.
(6) Members must participate in the Springfield Police Division's Citizen's Police Academy within the first two years of their first term.
(7) The City Commission, by ordinance and upon finding that the particular expertise of a potential appointee or member is needed on the Community Police Advisory Team, may waive any or all of the requirements of subsections (d) (1) (2) and (4) hereof for such appointee or member.
(e) If any member of the Community Police Advisory Team, appointed by the City Commission, is absent from three of any six consecutive regularly scheduled Advisory Team meetings, or if such member is unwilling or unable to attend a regularly scheduled prearranged discussion of the public business of the Advisory Team which fails to qualify as a "meeting" for lack of quorum, his office shall immediately become vacant. Such members shall have the opportunity to explain his absence to the City Commission and may be reappointed by a majority vote of the City Commission to complete the balance of his term.
(f) No Advisory Team member shall disclose any information or document which may come to his or her attention during the course of the member's service upon the Community Police Advisory Team if the Chief of Police has identified such information or document as confidential and directed that the same not be disclosed. Members with a direct conflict of interest related to any matter discussed by the Community Police Advisory Team must abstain from any discussion involving such conflict of interest.