The City Planning Commission shall consist of seven members, all of whom who shall be freeholders and residents of the municipality, who shall be qualified by knowledge and experience in matters pertaining to the development of the municipality, who shall include representatives of business, industry and labor, and who shall be nominated by the administrative authority and confirmed by the governing body of the municipality or appointed by the governing body where the administrative authority and the governing body are the same. At least three-fifths of all of the members must have been residents of the municipality for at least one year prior to nomination and confirmation or appointment. One member of the Commission shall also be a member of the governing body of the municipality and one member shall also be a member of the administrative department of the municipality, the term of these two members to be coextensive with the term of office to which they have been elected or appointed, unless the governing body and administrative authority of the municipality at the first regular meeting of the Commission each year designate others to serve as the municipality representative. The remaining members of the Commission first selected shall serve respectively for the terms of one year, two years and three years, decided equally or as nearly equally as possible between these two years and three years, divided equally or as nearly equally as possibly between these terms. Thereafter, members shall be selected for terms of three years each. Vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired term only, in the same manner as original selections are made. Members of the Commission shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for all reasonable and necessary expenses actually incurred in the performance of their official duties.
(Ord. 13-103, passed 12-13-1999)