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HomeMy WebLinkAboutBack-Up from Law DeptSec. 62-16. -Appointments; qualifications. (a) No appointment shall be made by the city commission to membership or alternate membership on the planning, zoning and appeals board until the city clerk has given at least 30 days notice of the vacancies in a newspaper of general circulation in the city of the vacancies. The city commission shall solicit and encourage the public, professional and citizen organizations within the area having interest in and knowledge of the purpose and functions of the planning, zoning and appeals board to submit names of persons and their qualifications for consideration as prospective appointees to the board. At least five days prior to the making of any appointment, the city clerk shall publicly notice that the list of names thus submitted and the names of candidates submitted by the city commission, together with a short statement of the qualifications of each person, is prepared and available for public inspection and consideration. No person shall be appointed to the planning, zoning and appeals board whose name and qualifications have not been made publicly available in the manner set out herein. In reaching a decision on an appointment, the city commission shall give due consideration to the qualifications thus submitted. (b) Nomination. Each city commissioner shall nominate candidates to serve the terms of two members of the planning, zoning and appeals board, taking into consideration the required qualifications for membership as provided herein. (c) Terms of office. The terms of office shall be the later of those terms provided under section 2-885 (d) Qualifications. It is intended that members and alternate members of the planning, zoning and appeals board be persons of knowledge, experience, mature judgment, and background; having ability and desire to act in the public interest; and representing, insofar as may be possible, the various special professional training, experience, and interests required to make informed and equitable decisions concerning preservation and appropriate development of the physical environment. To that end, qualifications of members and the alternate member shall be as follows: Eleven members and one alternate, shall be from the electorate of the city with demonstrated knowledge and interest in the appropriate growth and development of the city. (e) The city commission shall appoint the board members from the nominations made by each city commissioner, for ten members of the planning, zoning and appeals board. The mayor shall appoint one member and the alternate member. Appointees shall be persons in a position to represent the public interest, and no person shall be appointed having personal or private interests likely to conflict with the public interest. No person shall be appointed who: (1) Has any interest in the profits or emoluments of any contract, job, work, or service for the city; (2) Holds any elective office; or (3) Is employed in a full-time capacity by any governmental authority in the county or the city, however a person so employed may be appointed if the city commission waives this restriction by a four-fifths affirmative vote of its membership. Before making any appointment, the city commission shall determine that the person so appointed satisfies the requirements of sections 2-611 et seq., and no person shall be confirmed for any appointment who has not filed the statement required by section 2-615. In addition, the code of ethics of Miami -Dade County shall apply to members and the alternate member of the planning, zoning and appeals board. (f) Persons appointed shall be electors of the city and otherwise meet the requirements of chapter 2, article XI. (g) No member or alternate member of the planning, zoning and appeals board shall be confirmed in his appointment until he signs a statement agreeing to participate in at least one seminar on planning or zoning to be held in the state or elsewhere, and approved by the city, during the course of each calendar year he shall remain a member or alternate member of the board. Failure to meet this requirement each and every year after assuming board membership or alternate membership may be grounds for removal. (h) Vacancies. (1) Vacancies in the membership or alternate membership of the planning, zoning and appeals board shall be filled by the city commission and mayor by appointment in the manner herein set out and for the unexpired term of the member or alternate member affected, provided the city commission may appoint an alternate member of the planning, zoning and appeals board to a vacancy as a full member of the board without resort to the procedural requirements of subsection (a). (2) The executive secretary of the planning, zoning and appeals board shall notify the city clerk within ten days after a vacancy occurs, and the city clerk shall promptly transmit such information to the city commission for appropriate commission action as set out herein. (i) Removal. (1) Members and alternate members of the planning, zoning and appeals board may be removed for cause by the city commission upon the votes of not less than three members of the commission, upon written charges and public hearing, if the member and the alternate member affected requests such public hearing. (2) There is hereby established a point system. Each member and the alternate member of the planning, zoning and appeals board who arrives after the beginning of the first agenda item or leaves before the termination of the last agenda item, at a regularly scheduled meeting of the board, shall receive two points. Any member and the alternate member of the board who accumulates more than 15 points in one calendar year shall be brought to the attention of the city commission for its consideration of removal of the member. (3) Notwithstanding subsection (2), any member or alternate member of the planning, zoning and appeals board who is absent, for whatever reason, from more than five meetings in one calendar year shall be brought to the attention of the city commission for its consideration of removal of the member. Q) Compensation. Members and alternate members of the planning, zoning and appeals board shall receive a remuneration of $1.00 per year. The city commission shall make provision for the payment of actual and necessary expenses, in accordance with city policy, for the attendance of each member and alternate member of the board at one city -authorized planning or zoning seminar or conference each calendar year to be held in the state. (Ord. No. 13311, § 2, 2-23-12; Ord. No. 13340, § 1, 9-27-12)