§ 2-164. Failure to attend meetings.

As used in this section "meeting" shall mean regularly scheduled meetings and specially called meetings in which one (1) or more action items is to be considered. As used in this section "committee" shall mean committees, boards, and commissions.

Appointees must attend seventy-five (75) percent of the meetings in twelve (12) months of appointment schedule. Failure to comply will result in the removal from the board, commission or committee. If an appointee does not comply, the chair of the committee shall provide written notice to the city secretary of the dates and reasons, if known, of the member's absences. The city secretary shall place the item on the city council's next regularly scheduled meeting.

In the event the city council finds that the committee member's absences were not because of good cause, the city council shall immediately remove the committee member.

In the event city council removes a person from a committee under this section, the city council shall appoint another person to fill the removed member's unexpired term of office.

The removal of a member in accordance with this section does not apply to any board, commission or committee established by law or charter which prohibits such removal of committee members, or to ex-officio, non-voting committee members.

(Ord. No. 92-18, § 2, 2-27-92; Ord. No. 99-123, § 2, 12-21-99; Ord. No. 15-055, § 2, 7-23-15 )