(a) Appointment. The citizens' water advisory committee shall be composed of fifteen (15) members who shall be customers of the Tucson Water utility, as either a residential user or owning an enterprise using Tucson Water, and shall serve without compensation.
(b) Selection process. The mayor and each council member shall appoint one (1) member of the committee. The city manager, utilizing the resources of his office, shall nominate eight (8) members for final approval by the mayor and council.
It is suggested that appointed members have professional or technical competence in one of the following areas:
(1) Utility rate making;
(2) Water resource planning;
(3) Business management;
(4) Accounting;
(5) Financial analysis;
(6) Public health;
(7) Water system engineering;
(8) Resource economics;
(9) Hydrology;
(10) Landscape architecture;
(11) Water law.
(c) Terms. The term of those committee members appointed by the mayor and council shall be coterminous with that of the appointing elected official. The term of those committee members nominated by the city manager and appointed by the mayor and council shall be four (4) years, or shall be coterminous with the term of the nominating city manager, whichever is less.
(d) The director of the water department and the director of the Pima County Regional Wastewater Reclamation Department shall serve as non-voting, ex officio, advisory members of the committee, who do not count toward the quorum, but may fully participate in all committee and subcommittee discussions. As used in this subsection, "director" means the director or the director's designee.
(Ord. No. 4638, § 1, 4-25-77; Ord. No. 7261, § 1, 8-7-89; Ord. No. 9172, § 1, 12-7-98; Ord. No. 10379, § 1, 3-20-07; Ord. No. 10606, § 1, 11-25-08)