(a) Membership of the Committee is set forth in Charter Section 16.128-11(c). In making appointments to the Committee, the appointing authorities shall endeavor to ensure that the Committee is broadly representative of communities of interest, neighborhoods, and the demographic diversity of the City in terms of ethnicity, race, age, gender, sexual orientation, types of disabilities, and languages spoken. The appointing authorities shall also endeavor to ensure that the Committee includes members who are seniors, adults with disabilities, people with HIV/AIDS, and veterans.
(b) Initial terms of Committee members, which shall commence on the date of the first meeting of the Committee, shall terminate on January 31, 2019. Thereafter, terms of Committee members shall be two years, commencing on February 1 of odd-numbered years.
(c) Committee members shall serve at the pleasure of their respective appointing authorities and may be removed by their appointing authority at any time. Whenever a member appointed by the Aging and Adult Services Commission, the Advisory Council to the Department of Aging and Adult Services, or the Long Term Care Council vacates the member’s seat on his or her appointing body, the member shall automatically vacate his or her seat on the Committee as well.
(d) Service on the Committee shall be voluntary and members shall receive no compensation from the City, except that the members who are City employees may receive their regular salaries for time spent on the Committee if they are serving in an official capacity as a City employee.
(e) Any Committee member who misses three regular meetings of the Committee within a six-month period without the express approval of the Committee at or before each missed meeting shall be deemed to have resigned from the Committee 10 days after the third unapproved absence. The Committee shall inform the member’s appointing authority of each such resignation, and the appointing authority shall appoint a successor to that seat.
