Bill Text: VA SB1001 | 2017 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Fort Monroe Authority; increases number of members on Board of Trustees.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-02-23 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0215) [SB1001 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2017-SB1001-Chaptered.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §2.2-2338 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§2.2-2338. Board of Trustees; membership.
There is hereby created a political subdivision and public
body corporate and politic of the Commonwealth of Virginia to be known as the
Fort Monroe Authority, to be governed by a Board of Trustees (Board) consisting
of 12 voting 14 members appointed as follows: the Secretary of
Natural Resources and the Secretary of Commerce and Trade, or their successor
positions if those positions no longer exist, from the Governor's cabinet;
the Lieutenant Governor; the member of the Senate of Virginia and the
member of the House of Delegates representing the district in which Fort Monroe
lies; two members appointed by the Hampton City Council; and five
eight nonlegislative citizen members appointed by the Governor, four
seven of whom shall have expertise relevant to the implementation of the
Fort Monroe Reuse Plan, including but not limited to the fields of historic
preservation, tourism, environment, real estate, finance, and education, and
one of whom shall be a citizen representative from the Hampton Roads region. The
Secretary of Natural Resources and the Secretary of Commerce and Trade shall
serve ex officio without voting privileges and may send their deputies or
another cabinet member to meetings in the event that official duties require
their presence elsewhere. Cabinet members, the Lieutenant Governor,
and elected representatives shall serve terms commensurate with their terms of
office. Citizen appointees shall initially be appointed for staggered terms
of either one, two, or three years, and thereafter shall serve for four-year
terms. Cabinet members shall be entitled to send their deputies or another
cabinet member, and legislative Legislative members may send another
legislator, to meetings as full voting members in the event that
official duties require their presence elsewhere.
The Board so appointed shall enter upon the performance of its duties and shall initially and annually thereafter elect one of its members as chairman and another as vice-chairman. The Board shall also elect annually a secretary, who shall be a member of the Board, and a treasurer, who need not be a member of the Board, or a secretary-treasurer, who need not be a member of the Board. The chairman, or in his absence the vice-chairman, shall preside at all meetings of the Board, and in the absence of both the chairman and vice-chairman, the Board shall elect a chairman pro tempore who shall preside at such meetings. Seven Trustees shall constitute a quorum, and all action by the Board shall require the affirmative vote of a majority of the Trustees present and voting, except that any action to amend or terminate the existing Reuse Plan, or to adopt a new Reuse Plan, shall require the affirmative vote of 75 percent or more of the Trustees present and voting. The members of the Board shall be entitled to reimbursement for expenses incurred in attendance upon meetings of the Board or while otherwise engaged in the discharge of their duties. Such expenses shall be paid out of the treasury of the Authority in such manner as shall be prescribed by the Authority.
2. That the provisions of this act shall not be construed to affect existing appointments for which the terms have not expired. However, any new appointments made on and after July 1, 2017, shall be made in accordance with this act.
3. That the initial appointments of the three nonlegislative citizen members appointed by the Governor in accordance with this act shall be staggered as follows: two nonlegislative citizen members shall be appointed for a term of five years, and one nonlegislative citizen member shall be appointed for a term of two years. Thereafter, all nonlegislative citizen members appointed by the Governor shall serve four-year terms.
