Legal Documents of Sweetwater

The representatives from the Sweetwater Utility Board, the parks and recreation department, and the code enforcement office shall be named and elected by the mayor and board of commissioners at its organizational meeting following city elections and will serve until the next such meeting. The terms of the established six (6) private citizen members of the tree board shall remain the same. In order to effect the terms of this section, the mayor and board of commissioners shall, no later than its next regular meeting following of the ordinance comprising this section, elect two (2) more private citizen members of the tree board. Their terms shall be retroactive to July 1, 2013, one for an initial period of one (1) year and the other for an initial period of two (2) years as the mayor and board of commissioners shall designate. Upon expiration of these initial terms, each such member shall be nominated and elected to serve a four (4) year term thereafter on a regular cycle. All eleven (11) members of the tree board may succeed themselves in office and there shall be no limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve. (Ord. #763, Nov. 2003, as replaced by Ord. #905, Sept. 2013)