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• • responsible for its own organization, operation, and action and shall enjoy the fullest cooperation of all elected officials, departments and agencies of the City of Everett. 3. Eligibility: The Citizens' Commission shall consist of seven (7) members, all of whom must be at least twenty-one (21) years of age, registered to vote, and maintain personal residence within the boundaries of the City of Everett. No City of Everett official, or public employee, immediate family member of the official or employee is eligible for membership on the Citizens' Commission. As used in this subsection, the phrase "immediate family" means parents, spouse, siblings, children, or dependent relative of the official or employee, whether or not they are living in the same household. 4. Appointment: Two (2)members of the Citizens' Commission shall be appointed by the City Council and one (1) member shall be appointed by the Mayor; those three members shall select the other four (4) members. The members of the commission shall serve four (4) year terms beginning January 1, 1997, except that the first seven members shall be appointed for different terms as follows: (a) one member appointed by the City Council for a period of four years; (b) one member appointed by the City Council for a period of two years; (c) the one member appointed by the Mayor to serve for a period of two years; (d) two of the members selected by those three members to serve for periods of four years; and (e) two of the members selected by those three members to serve for periods of two years. No person may serve more than two (2) consecutive terms. Members of the commission may be removed by the Mayor, with the approval of the Council, only for cause of incapacity, incompetence, neglect of duty, malfeasance in office, or for a disqualifying change of eligibility. The unexcused absence of any member of the commission from two (2) consecutive meetings of the commission shall constitute relinquishment of that person's membership on the commission. Such a relinquishment creates a vacancy in that person's position on the commission. Upon a vacancy in any position on the commission, a successor shall be selected and appointed to fill the unexpired term. The selection and appointment shall be concluded within thirty (30) days of the date that the position becomes vacant and shall be conducted in the same manner as originally provided for that person's appointment. 5. Operation: The members of the commission shall elect a chair from among their number. The commission shall set a schedule of salaries by an affirmative vote of not less than five(5)members of the commission. Members of the commission shall receive no compensation for their services. 6. Determination of Salary Schedule: The commission shall file its initial schedules of salaries for the elected officials with the City Clerk no later than the first Monday in May 1997, and shall file a schedule on the same day every two years thereafter. The signature of the chair of the commission shall be affixed to each schedule submitted to the City Clerk. The chair shall certify that the schedule has been adopted in accordance with the provisions of this charter and with the rules, if any, of the commission. Such schedules shall become effective ninety (90) days after the filing thereof, except as provided in Section 8 below. CHARTER AMENDMENT ORDINANCE Page 3