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b. Faithful attendance at all meetings of the Board and conscientious performance of the duties required of members of the Board shall be considered a prerequisite of continuing membership of the Board. Members shall be required to attend at least 75% of the meetings. No Board member shall take part in the hearing, consideration or determination of any case in which he/she is personally or financially interested. When a member has a financial interest, they shall make note of that interest and request that they be excused from consideration of that agenda item. The Board shall vote on that request. c. No Board member shall vote on any matter deciding an application unless he/she shall have attended the public meeting on that application. When a member has not attended the public meeting for an application they shall make note of that fact before the vote on the item and the Chairman shall excuse them from the vote. IV. Meetings: a. Regular Meetings: Regular meetings of the Board shall be held four times a year on the second Tuesday of February, May, August and November. The meetings shall begin at 10a.m. unless notice is provided otherwise. b. Special Meetings: The chairman may call special meetings of the Board at any time. At least forty-eight hours written notice of the time and place of special meetings shall be given, by the clerk or by the chairman, to each member of the Board. c. Cancellation of Meetings: Whenever there are no new applications for consideration, or revocations of the Farmland Preservation Agreement, or whenever so many regular and alternate members notify the secretary of inability to attend and a quorum will not be available, the chairman may dispense with a regular meeting by giving written or oral notice to all members not less than 24 hours prior to the time to set for the meeting. d. Quorum: A quorum shall constitute four members of the Board able to vote on a particular agenda item. e. Voting: All regular members shall vote on each issue made in the form of a motion, unless they have disqualified themselves for one or more of the reasons listed in Section III and been excused from that vote. All abstaining from voting, and not previously excused from that vote, will be counted in favor of the motion. All silent votes will be counted in favor of the motion. The vote of a majority of the members present and voting shall decide issues before the Board. V. Powers and Duties: a. Review and approve applications for qualified farmland and voluntary agricultural districts or Enhanced Voluntary Agricultural Districts and make recommendations concerning the establishment and modification of agricultural districts; b. Hold public hearings pursuant to Article X of the Voluntary Agricultural District Ordinance to consider any action by a governmental unit to condemn and interest in qualifying farmland within a District; I-I