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a.City employees are not eligible to serve as City commissioners, board members, or committee members.

b.Members of boards, commissions, and committees shall serve for a term of four years, unless otherwise specified in this section. Terms shall commence on the first day of July and end on the thirtieth day of June.

c.A member may be appointed to serve a term of less, or more, than four years if the City Council determines that it is in the best interest of the board, commission, or committee that a member serve a shorter term in order to provide for appropriate staggered terms to preserve continuity of membership on the board, committee or commission.

d.A member who has been appointed to serve unexpired terms due to an unplanned vacancy shall serve to the end of the former incumbent’s term.

e.Members shall serve until reappointed or until the member’s successor has been appointed and seated, unless removed sooner by action of the City Council.

f.With the exception of the Appeals Hearing Board, the Disabled Access Board, and the Building and Housing Appeals Board, and the Measures P and S Oversight Committee, no person shall be a member of more than one City board, commission, or committee at a time. In the event that a member of a board, commission, or committee is appointed to a second board, commission, or committee, then that person’s membership on the first body shall be automatically vacated.

g.Each board, committee, or commission shall meet on a regularly scheduled date that it shall fix, unless a meeting is cancelled, and meetings shall be subject to the Ralph M. Brown Act, set forth in Government Code Section 54950 et seq., as may be amended.

h.Cause for removal of an appointed member pursuant to Charter Section 4.5(b)(1) includes, but is not limited to, three consecutive absences from a regularly scheduled meeting and the failure to complete required trainings specified under Section 2-3.10. (Ord. 3669 § 2, 2023; Ord. 3646 § 2, 2022; Ord. 3599 § 3, 2019. Formerly 2-2.04)