(A) There is created a board of the City of Tontitown, to be known as the Tontitown Planning Board which shall consist of five members, of whom at least two-thirds shall not hold any other municipal office or appointment except membership in the Board of Adjustments or a joint planning agency.
(B) The Planning Board shall have all the duties and functions authorized by Act 186 of the Acts of Arkansas 1957 or a joint planning agency.
(C) The members of the Planning Board shall be named, appointed, and confirmed by the City Council. The appointment of the Planning Board members shall be made at the regular meeting of the City Council in February.
(D) The terms of the members of the Planning Board shall be two years. However, the initial appointment to the Planning Board shall be; three for two years and two for one year. Thereafter as vacancies occur in the Board, for whatever cause, the vacancies, shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointments, and the appointees shall hold office until expiration of the term which they were appointed to fill. All members of the Planning Board whose terms may expire shall serve until their successors in office have been appointed and confirmed by the City Council.
(E) The time for the regular meetings of the Planning Board shall be on the fourth Tuesday of every month commencing at the time designated in the Planning Board bylaws. If for any reason the City Council believes that city business requires the Planning Board to meet twice a month, the City Council may, by motion approved by a majority of the Council members present, require the Planning Board to meet twice a month.
