HomeMy WebLinkAbout87-151 - ADMIN Resolution - City Council - 1987/09/21RESOLUTION NO. 87-151
RESOLUTION DEALING WITH CITY POLICY ON APPOINTMENTS TO BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS
AND RESCINDING RESOLUTION NO. 6524
WHEREAS, in order to provide all citizens with the opportunity to participate
in the affairs of the community, the City Council has established
boards and commissions to advise it on subjects of interest to the
community; and
WHEREAS, the City Council wishes to make all commissions representative of
the total community and appoint members who are actively interested
in the goals of the commission; and
WHEREAS, selection by interviews of interested applicants will better help
provide this representation; and
WHEREAS, in order to ensure that advisory boards and commissions are not
hampered in their ability to advise the Council on matters of importance
to the community by poor attendance by member, minimum attendance
requirements are deemed necessary,
BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of St. Louis Park that the
following policies shall govern advisory boards and commissions:
1. The City Council shall establish a committee consisting of the Mayor and
two At -large members of the Council to act as the Council committee to
periodically interview interested citizens. The interview and a review
• of the citizen's background and experience will be used to develop a list
of candidates available for appointment to boards and commissions. In
conducting these interviews, Council shall be informed in advance of the
interviews. Any member of the Council may attend and vote. When a vacancy
occurs on a board or commission, the committee shall notify the Council
a week in advance of the name of the person they intend to nominate for
appointment to the board/commission.
2. The committee shall use the following criteria, but not to be considered
all inclusive, in making appointments to boards and commissions: geographic
distribution, background training and skills, experience, availability
to serve on the board/commission and whether or not the appointee meets
the special needs of the board/commission to which they are being appointed.
3. Members of all boards and commissions shall attend no less than 60 percent
of all regular meetings each year. Attendance records for all boards and
commissions shall be reviewed by the City Council annually and any regular
member not meeting this minimum requirement shall have their appointment
terminated. If any member is unable to attend a scheduled meeting, the
absence will be noted as excused if either the board or commission chairman
or the secretary is contacted no later than 4:00 p.m. the day of the meeting.
Any meeting from which a member has been excused will not be counted when
the percentage of meetings attended is computed.
4. Effective with the adoption of this resolution, no member of any board
of commission shall serve more than two terms as chairman of that particular
board or commission provided, however, that all current chairmen are to
be considered in their first term, and any person elected to fill an unexpired
term of six months or less shall be eligible for two full additional terms.
All elections for chairmen shall be conducted annually.
Be it further resolved that Resolution No. 6524, adopted March 31, 1975,
is hereby rescinded.
Adopted by the City Council September 21, 1987
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