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Exhibit E Sec. 901. Appointments, removals, vacancies, terms. @LExcept as otherwise specified in this charter, the member of each of the appointive boards and commissions shall be appointed, and may be removed, by the city council, subject in both appointment and removal by the affirmative votes of a majority of the members. For boards or commissions havina at least seven (7) members, the citv aouncil shall select seven (7) members from nominations made by the council member (or the mayor in the case of the citv-wide seat) whose term coincides with that board or commission seat. (as determined bY the city aouncil in accordance with subsection Ie) below, toaether with nominations from anv other member of the council. All other aopointments shall be as determined by this charter, or by the citv council from time to time. BeQinninQ with terms startina after the 2006 General Election, at least fifty-percent (50%) of those persons nominated from time to time bv a council member shall be residents of the ward represented by such council member. At the request of a council member. this rule may be waived by a 2/3 vote of the Citv Council for anyone apoointment if the reQuestinQ member is unable to find a Qualified and acceptable ward resident to nominate. For purposes of this rule, residency is onlv reauired at the time of nomination. !Q) Vacancies from whatever cause arising shall be filled in the same manner. Upon a vacancy ocaurring leaving an unexpired portion 01 a term, any appointment to fill such vacanay shall be for the unexpired portion of such term. All terms shall beQin on the same date as citv councilmember terms as provided in seation 400 of this charter. &If a member of a board or commission absents himself from tRreo two (~!1.) regular meetings of such board or commission, consecutively, unless by permission of such board or aommission expressed in its official minutes, or fails to attend at least one-half (1/2) of the reaular meetinQs of such board or commission within a calendar year, or is convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude, or ceases to be a qualified elector of the city, Aisthe office shall become vacant and shall be so declared by the city council. {gLExcept as otherwise provided in this section, the members of such boards and commissions shall serve for a term of four (4) years and until their respective successors are appointed and qualified, but in no event shall any person be eligible for reappointment who has served two (2) consecutive terms of four (4) years each, irrespective of what seat or seats the member is appointed to by the city council. Notwithstandina the foreQoina. one seat shall be a citv-wide seat havinQ a (2) vear term whiah coincides with that of the Mayor, and which shall be limited to four (4) consecutive terms of two (2) vears each. Short or partial terms (as delined for citv council in Section 401 of this Charter) shall not be considered. Unless otherwise provided by ordinance of the city aouncil for a board or commission having more or less than seven (7) members, the terms of three (3) of the members of each such board or commission shall begin on the date of the beginning of the term of office of council members elected at every second general election commencing with the April, 1983 general election, aIl€Ithe terms of tRe rom aiRing three (3) other members shall begin on the date 01 the Ordinance No. NS,2715 Page 9 of 15