64-7-104 - Executive committee Membership Officers and terms of office Meetings. - Tennessee Statutes

64-7-104. Executive committee Membership Officers and terms of office Meetings.

(a)  At the annual meeting, the regional council shall appoint an executive committee, which shall be empowered to perform as the administrative body of the regional council and shall be empowered by the regional council to act in its stead.

(b)  The membership, officers, and term of office of the executive committee shall be as follows:

     (1)  The three (3) persons who serve as officers of the regional council shall also serve in that same capacity for the executive committee;

     (2)  The two (2) representatives who serve on the regional council by virtue of their election to the general assembly;

     (3)  One (1) person selected by caucus from each county;

          (A)  Each county shall annually caucus in July and select a person to represent that county on the executive committee;

          (B)  The person selected must be chosen from among each county's representatives on the regional council;

          (C)  The membership eligibility is governed by the same rules as govern membership on the regional council; and

          (D)  The person selected shall serve for a period commencing the day of the annual meeting and ending no later than one (1) day prior to the next succeeding annual meeting;

     (4)  The minority members from the four (4) counties having the highest percentages of minority population as reported by the latest decennial census;

     (5)  Two (2) at-large representatives. One (1) shall be a mayor from a large city and the second the mayor from a small city and shall be appointed by the president; and

     (6)  A designated alternate may be named to serve in the absence of the selected representative.

(c)  The executive committee shall meet monthly or by their vote call for special meetings and for deferring of meetings.

(d)  Travel or per diem expenses may be paid to members of the executive committee, except to those members of the general assembly. The senator and representative shall receive no additional compensation, other than that which they may receive from the travel and per diem expenses from their respective houses of the general assembly for their service on the executive committee.

[Acts 1988, ch. 886, § 1; 2006, ch. 609, § 2.]