3.04.010 Composition--Term of office.
The Board of Library Trustees shall consist of five members, as provided in Section 30 of the Charter, to be appointed by the City Council. All library trustees shall serve without compensation. The term of office of the members of the board shall be four (4) years. The term of office of the members of the board first appointed shall commence upon September 7, 1939, and the members so appointed shall so classify themselves by lot that one non-City Councilmember trustee shall go out of office on the first Monday of July 1940, one non-City Councilmember trustee shall go out of office on the first Monday of July 1941, one non-City Councilmember trustee shall go out of office on the first Monday of July 1942, and one non-City Councilmember trustee shall go out of office on the first Monday of July 1943. Notwithstanding any other provision in this chapter, beginning on July 2, 1984, the library trustee appointed from the City Council shall go out of office on the first day of December 1987 unless earlier terminated as hereinafter provided. Thereafter, the term of the councilmember trustee shall expire on the first day of December of the year of expiration of the City Councilmember’s term on the City Council unless earlier terminated as hereinafter provided.
The members appointed to the board as in this section provided shall be subject to removal from the board at the pleasure of the City Council, prior to the expiration of the term for which they were appointed.1
Vacancies on the Board of Library Trustees from whatever cause, except temporary vacancies as hereinafter provided, shall be filled by the City Council for the unexpired term. Each member of the board shall serve until their successor is appointed and qualified. A majority vote of all the members of the City Council shall be required to appoint a member to the board, or to fill any vacancy thereon, or to remove any member from the board prior to the expiration of their term of office.1 (Ord. 6144A-NS § 1, 1992: Ord. 5921-NS § 1, 1989: Ord. 5582-NS § 1, 1983: Ord. 3739-NS (part), 1960: Ord. 2459-NS (part), 1941: Ord. 2278-NS § 1, 1939)
1The last two paragraphs of § 3.04.010 were inadvertently omitted from a prior codification of this code due to a clerical error that occurred in 1992. This section was corrected in February, 2006.