The Board shall consist of seven members. Each member of the City Council shall select and appoint one member to the Board, subject to approval of the appointment by the remainder of the Council. The remaining two members shall be selected at large by the City Council as a whole. To the greatest extent possible, it is the goal of the Council to select Board members in a manner designed to provide a diversity of ethnic, racial and socioeconomic backgrounds as well as a diversity of geographic representation from all areas of the city. In addition to the seven members of the Board appointed by the City Council, an eighth, nonvoting member shall be appointed by the membership of the recognized bargaining unit representing the sworn employees of the Police Department. The appointee shall be entitled to participate in all aspects of the Board’s activities, including the reviewing citizen complaint investigations and discussions related thereto, except that the appointee shall not be entitled to vote on any matter before the Board. All appointees to the Board shall be residents of the city.
(1995 Code, § 2.12.160)