§ 14-6-5. Membership composition; selection of members.

(a)

Each citizens' district council shall consist of not less than twelve (12) nor more than twenty-four (24) members. Membership to the citizens' district council shall be attained either by mayoral appointment or by election. The selection of members shall be in the following manner: Not later than forty-five (45) days after enactment of the ordinance designating the district area for new citizens' district councils, the mayor shall appoint twelve (12) members of that citizens' district council and shall designate terms of office for these appointments as follows:

(1)

Eight (8) members shall serve one-year terms;

(2)

Two (2) members shall serve two-year terms;

(3)

Two (2) members shall serve three-year terms.

The effective date for terms of office for both appointed and elected members of a district council shall be May 1. For the purpose of newly established district councils, the terms of the twelve (12) appointed members shall be deemed effective from the preceding May 1. In such cases, appointees' terms of office may be less than one year.

(b)

Thus with the term of office for the eight (8) members appointed to serve one year, expiring on May first following their appointment, the total number of positions to be filled at that time shall be twenty (20). An election to fill eighteen (18) of those positions shall be held at the next regularly scheduled election for all district councils. At that election the six (6) candidates receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected to a term of three (3) years; the six (6) candidates receiving the next highest number of votes shall be declared elected to a term of two (2) years; the six (6) candidates receiving the next highest number of votes shall be declared elected to a term of one year.

(c)

The remaining two (2) positions shall be filled by mayoral appointment. At that time and thereafter, the number of mayoral appointees serving at any one time shall be six (6) excluding any appointments made to fill vacancies in elected positions.

(d)

Each year an election shall be held at which time vacancies created by expiration of terms of office shall be filled for three-year terms, except for those positions, to be filled by mayoral appointment.

(e)

When a citizens' district council has been in existence for one year all new appointments, excluding those made to fill vacancies, in unexpired terms, shall be for three-year terms of office.

(f)

All mayoral appointments shall be made in consultation with the citizens' district council. The district council shall give public notice to the district council area of positions to be filled by mayoral appointment, the notice to include a deadline date for response and the place to which nominees' names should be sent. The district council shall consider possible recommendations at a subsequent meeting of the district council.

(g)

Where appointments are made to fill a vacancy previously held by an elected resident, the vacancy must be filled by a citizen who is a resident of the district area.

(h)

The majority of citizens' district council members serving at any one time must be citizens who reside in the development area as defined in Public Act No. 344 of 1945, as amended [MCL 125.71 et seq., MSA 5.3501 et seq.]. In no case at any time shall the number of appointees who reside outside the area exceed six (6), except in the following instances:

(1)

That where the number of occupied dwelling units in the area is less than the number of business establishments in the area, the majority of the citizens' district council need not be composed of citizens living in the development area.

(2)

Where there are no residents, the mayor shall appoint district council members.

Unless noted otherwise in the ordinance establishing a district area or amended thereafter, a single business, nonprofit or institutional entity or a multiple ownership of a single or multiple piece of property shall be limited to one representative on the citizens' district council.

(Ord. No. 429-H, § 1(2-9-5), 3-12-81; Ord. No. 548-H, § 1, 3-23-83)