2.14.040 Terms—Assignment—Commencement—Expiration.
A. Terms. Unless otherwise provided by the ordinance establishing a particular board or commission, terms shall be for six years. In any case, terms shall be for a maximum of six years. Terms shall be staggered. No person serving continuously on a board for a period in excess of four years in the capacity of a member or an alternate shall be eligible for reappointment to such board until such person has has been off such board for at least one year. The mayor is authorized to make appointments for less than the designated term in order to provide and maintain the required stagger.
B. Terms—Stagger Assignment. For those boards identified in Section 2.14.030, all board member terms shall be staggered. Unless otherwise provided in the ordinance establishing the board or commission, the term stagger assigned to each board shall be based upon the following premise:
1. For a three-member board, the initial terms were to be two, four, and six years;
2. For a four-member board, the initial terms were to be one member at two, one member at four and two members at six years;
3. For a five-member board, the initial terms were to be one member at two, two members at four, and two members at six;
4. For a six-member board, the initial terms were to be one member at one, one member at two, one member at three, one member at four, one member at five and one member at six;
5. For a seven-member board, the initial terms were to be one member at one, one member at two, one member at three, one member at four, one member at five, and two members at six;
6. For an eight-member board, the initial terms were to be one member at one, one member at two, one member at three, one member at four, two members at five and two members at six;
7. For a nine-member board, the initial terms were to be one member at one, one member at two, one member at three, two members at four, two members at five and two members at six;
8. For a ten-member board, the initial terms were to be one member at one, one member at two, two members at three, two members at four, two members at five and two members at six;
9. For an eleven-member board, the initial terms were to be one member at one, two members at two, two members at three, two members at four, two members at five and two members at six.
For boards with memberships that exceed eleven, the terms shall be staggered in proportion to the number of members using the above as a basis for determining the appropriate stagger.
C. Term—Commencement—Expiration. Terms shall be deemed to commence January 1st of the year of appointment, unless otherwise provided. The terms for all board positions shall expire on December 31st of the year of expiration. (Ord. 2240-97 § 3, 1997; Ord. 2050-95 § 4, 1995.)