12-5611.   Governing board; appointment; terms;officers; meetings; procedure.(a) The governing and administrative body of the authority shallbea boardconsistingof six members, to be known as the riverfront board. Members of the boardshall be residents of Kansas. No member of the board shall be an electedofficial.

      (b)   Members shall not be paid a salary, but shall be reimbursed for actualexpensesincurred by them in the performance of their duties.

      (c)   Members of the board shall be appointed as follows: Three shall beappointed by the mayor with the approval of the council andthreeshall be appointed by the commission. Of the first appointees, thecouncil andmayor shall designate one member to serve a term of one year, one to serve twoyears and one to serve a three-year term. The commission shall designate theterms of its appointees likewise. Should the city and county consolidate, thenthemembers shall be appointed by the governing body of the consolidated governmentas set forth above.

      (d)   Upon the expiration of the term of any member, all successormembers of the board shall be appointed and hold office for terms of threeyears from the date of appointment.The city clerk or county clerk shall certify the action of the respectivegoverning bodywith respect to such appointments and file such certificates as a part of therecordsof the office of either the city or county clerk. Before entering upon theduties ofoffice, each member of the board shall take and subscribe the constitutionaloath ofoffice and same shall be filed in the office of the city clerk and countyclerk.

      (e)   Any member may resign from office to take effect when a successor hasbeenappointed and has qualified. The mayor, with the approval of the council andthe commission, may remove any member of the board in case of incompetency,neglect of duty or malfeasance in office. The member shall be given a copy ofthechargesand an opportunity to be publicly heard in person or by counsel upon not lessthan 10-days' notice. In case of failure to qualify within the time required,or of abandonmentof office, or in case of death, conviction of a crime involving moralturpitude orremoval from office, the office of a member shall become vacant. Avacancyshall be filled for the unexpired term by appointment in the same manner as theoriginal appointment.

      (f)   As soon as possible after the appointment of the initial members, theboard shallorganize for the transaction of business, select a chairperson and a temporarysecretaryfrom its members and adopt bylaws, rules and regulations to govern itsproceedings. The initial chairperson and successors shall be elected by theboardfromtime to time for the term of the chairperson's office as a member of the boardor fortheterm of three years, whichever is shorter.

      (g)   Regular meetings of the board shall be held at least once eachquarter or more often if called by thechairperson. The time and place of such meetings to be fixed by the board.Four members oftheboard shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

      (h)   All action oftheboard shall be by resolution and the affirmative vote of at least three membersshallbe necessary for the adoption of any resolution. All such resolutions beforetakingeffect shall be approved by the chairperson of the board and, if thechairperson approves thereof, the chairperson shall sign the same. If thechairperson does not approve any such resolution, the chairperson shall returnit to the board with the chairperson's written objections thereto at the nextregular meeting of the board occurring after the passage thereof. If thechairperson fails to return any resolution with the objections thereto bythe prescribedtime, the chairperson shall be deemed to have approved the same and itshalltake effect accordingly. Upon the return of any resolution by the chairpersonwith the chairperson's objections, thevote by which such resolution was passed shall be reconsidered by the board. Ifuponreconsideration the resolution is passed by the affirmative vote of atleast five members, it shall go into effect notwithstanding the veto of thechairperson. Allresolutions and all proceedings of the authority and all documents and recordsin itspossession shall be public records, and open to public inspection, except suchdocuments and records as shall be kept or prepared by the board for use innegotiations, actions or proceedings to which the authority is a party.

      History:   L. 2006, ch. 83, § 11;L. 2009, ch. 35, § 1; July 1.