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138 UPON MOTION of Commissioner Payne, seconded by Commissioner Nash and unanimously carried, the Board approved the addition of the following provision to the proposed policy for appointments under Section E. ~mplementation. 4. In order to get more participation and involvement from county residents, the county should advertise in local papers at least twice each year of up-coming vacancies. Any application that is received concerning the vacancies should be given careful consideration, assuming they are qualified. UPON MOTION of Commissioner Nash, seconded by Commissioner Lentz with Commissioners Nash, Lentz, Cook, and Payne voting for and Chairman Bonds voting against, the Board adopted the following policy for the procedures for appointments to boards, committees and commissions. POLICY OF THE CABARRUS COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Procedures for Appointments to Boards, Committees, and Commissions Ao ELIGIBILITY FOR APPOINTMENTS The general policy of the Board of Commissioners shall be to limit membership of an individual to one official governmental board. The Commissioners, however, reserve the right to appoint an individual to more than one board under special circumstances. A person serving on one board and receives an appointment to a second board shall automatically be removed from the first board, unless the County Commissioners find evidence of special circumstances to justify service on two boards. Except in extraordinary circumstances or where otherwise restricted by legislative authority creating or authorizing the creation of County boards, committees, commissions, or councils, it shall be the policy of the Board of Commissioner of Cabarrus County that terms of member- ship on County boards, committees, commissions and councils shall be staggered and that members shall not serve more than six consecutive years. The preferred length of terms is three years, with terms staggered such that appointments are made each year. With three year terms, an individual would normally serve a maximum of two terms. An individual whose initial appointment was to fill an unexpired term shall be eligible to serve the number of full-length terms other members are eligible to serve unless prior to the time for reappointment that individual has already served six consecutive years. Be Any member who fails to attend at least 75% of the regular meetings, except for excused illness, or other extraordinary circumstances, of the commission, committee, board, or council during any one-year period shall be automatically removed from said commission, committee, board, or council. Vacancies resulting from a member's failure to attend the required number of meetings shall be filled as provided herein. The Chairman of the commission, committee, board, or council will notify the proper appointing authority if a member is absent 25% of the meetings, and an appointment will be made by the appointing authority to fill that vacancy. Eligibility requirements as outlined above will not be applicable to ad hoc committees. TREND TOWARD QUARTERLY APPOINTMENTS Efforts should be made when creating new boards and commissions and with present boards and commissions to consolidate expiration of terms for members to expire at one time during each quarter of each year. If this can be done, it would result in less workload impact on both staff and County Commission. COUNTY EMPLOYEES SERVING ON BOARDS, ETC. It is understood that County employees will not be appointed to boards, commissions, etc., which receive County funding assistance.