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ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 2, ARTICLE XIX, SECTION 2-107, OF THE DULUTH CITY CODE TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF COMMISSIONERS ON THE DULUTH PUBLIC ARTS COMMISSION TO ELEVEN MEMBERS.
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BY COUNCILOR ANDERSON:
The city of Duluth does ordain:
Section1. That Section 2-107 of the Duluth City Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 2-107. Commissioners.
(a) The membership of the commission shall consist of nine eleven commissioners who shall be appointed to the membership of said commission and who shall perform their duties as herein after set forth in this ordinance [Article];
(b) Commissioners shall serve without compensation. Terms of commissioners shall be for three years and all terms shall expire on March 31 of the appropriate year or until their respective successors are appointed and qualified. When a vacancy occurs in said commission, by means of resignation, death, removal from the city or removal for failure or neglect to perform the duties of a commissioner, such vacancy shall be filled for the unexpired term;
(c) All appointments and removals of commissioners shall be made by the mayor, with the approval of the city council evidenced by resolution;
(d) Within 20 days after all of the commissioners have been appointed, the commission shall meet and organize and adopt, and thereafter may amend, such rules and regulations for the conduct of the commission as the commission shall deem to be in the public interest and most likely to advance, enhance, foster and promote the purposes of this ordinance [Article]. At such meeting and at all subsequent meetings of the commission, 50 percent or more of the commissioners then holding office shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business;
(e) The commissioners shall elect from among their membership a president and vice president and shall also elect a secretary who, may or may not be a member of said commission. No two of such offices shall be held by one commissioner. The offic...
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