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<br /> -2- <br /> (D) The appointed members of the Board shall serve terms of <br /> offlce as fOLLows: the inltial appointed memDers of the Board <br /> shall serve respective terms to explre at the end of the flrst, <br /> second, third, and fourth Clty flscal years hereafter; and memoers <br /> of the Board appolnted upon the expiratlon of each such term and <br /> their successors shall De appolnted by the Clty Councll to <br /> four-year terms of offlce to expire at the end of the respective <br /> City fiscal years. The persons appointed as the inltial appolnted <br /> Doard members shall determine among themselves thelr respective <br /> terms of office, and shall cause such determination to De made on <br /> the officlal minutes of the Board. The Mayor of the City shall De <br /> a votlng memDer of the Board, shaLl represent the City CounciL as <br /> such memDer, and shall keep the City Council fullY informed of the <br /> actions, deliDerations and decisions of the Board ana its <br /> management of the electric system. <br /> (c) All vacancies and memDership on the Board (excepting the <br /> Mayor of the City), whether DY virtue of the refusal or failure of <br /> any persons appointed to the Board to accept appointment or <br /> otherwise, shalL De filled by the City Council, and any memDer of <br /> the Board appointed to fill a vacancy shall serve for the <br /> unexpired Dalance of the term for which appointment is so made. <br /> (d) A person ,¡¡tho has served as an appointed member of the <br /> Board for a single term shall De eliglble for appointment only to <br /> one additional four-year term. A member of the Board appolnted <br /> pursuant to thls Ordinance, and any member of the Board appointed <br /> to flll a vacancy on the Board, shall not be considered as having <br /> served for such a term unless the term, or unexpired portion of <br /> the term, as the case may De, so served is three years or more. <br /> (e) Permanent removal of reSlaence from the City by an <br /> appointed memDer of the Boara shall vacate that memDer's office as <br /> a memDer of the Board, and any memDer of the Board (exceptlng the <br /> Mayor of the City) who shall be aDsent from all meetings held DY <br /> the Boara for a period of three consecutive months, unless such <br /> memoer shall have Deen granted a leave of aDsence DY unanimous <br /> vote of the remaining mernoers of the Board, shall De conSlaerea <br /> for all purposes as having resigned from and vacated his or her <br /> office as a member of the Board. Any memDer of the Board <br /> (excepting the Mayor of the City) may be removed from office under <br /> the terms of section 3.17 of the Charter of the Clty of San <br /> Marco s. <br /> (f) The Board shall elect one of its memDers as chair and <br /> one as vice-chair of the Board ana shall appoint a secretary and a <br /> treasurer or a secretary-treasurer, whO may, Dut need not, De a <br /> member of the Boara. If a memDer of the Boara is not appointed as <br /> secretary or treasurer or secretary-treasurer, then, the city <br /> manager of the Clty or his or her designee or designees ~halL <br /> serve ln such office or offices; provided, if and to the extent <br /> the system oudget permits, the Board instead may appoint to such <br /> office or offices an employee or employees of the system whose <br /> duties in the operation of the system requires performance of <br /> simllar functions. The Board may adopt from time to time such <br /> rules for the orderly conduct of lts affairs as it may deem <br /> approprlate and, suDJect to the limitations contalnea ln this <br /> Ordinance, the Code of Ordinances of the Cltyof San Marcos, the <br /> Charter of the Clty of San Marcos, and the laws of the State of <br /> Texas, conduct the affairs of the system in the same manner <br /> ordinarily employed DY the DoardS of alrectors of prlvate <br /> corporations operating propertles of a similar nature; provided, <br /> however, no memDer of the Board shall ever vote by proxy ln the <br /> exercise of his or her autles as such Board member. <br /> (g) Consistent with the system Duaget, the Boara may appoint <br /> an employee either as general manager of the system or an empLoyee <br /> of the City to serve as liaison Detween ana among the City, the <br /> Boara ana any contract operator of all or part of the system, <br /> attorneys, englneers, ana other aaVlsors ana employees. In the <br /> event the Boara appoints an empLoyee as a general manager of the <br /> system, the authoritles, power s, duties and llmitations between <br />