(a) The personnel board shall consist of five members and they and their successors in office shall be elected or appointed by the citizens supervisory committee. The five members shall be designated respectively as member No. 1, member No. 2, member No. 3, member No. 4, and member No. 5. After May 14, 1992, those members in office on May 14, 1992, may serve out the remainder of their unexpired terms and shall be designated as member No. 1, member No. 2, and member No. 3, in order of their original appointments. Member No. 4 shall be for a term of three years and until his or her successor is appointed. Member No. 5 shall be for a term of five years and until his or her successor is appointed, and their successors in office shall serve for a term of five years and until their successors in office have been appointed and qualified. Each member shall be over 21 years of age, of recognized good character and executive ability, a bonafide resident of Dothan, and a qualified elector of Dothan. No person shall be elected or appointed as a member of the board if he or she, within three years next preceding the date of his or her appointment as a member of the board, received an appointment to any public office in the city or Houston County or becomes elected for any public office in the city or Houston County; any member of the board shall forthwith forfeit his or her position as a member of the board. Each member of the board shall receive fifty dollars ($50) per meeting attended and fifty dollars ($50) per day for attendance upon all trials and hearings by the board. Such compensation shall be paid from the same funds as other expenses of the personnel department are paid.
(b) The personnel board shall meet once a month on dates to be fixed by its rules and regulations and as often as shall be necessary for the orderly dispatch of its business. The board shall have the power and authority and it shall be its duty to do all of the following:
(1) Select a Personnel Director of the City of Dothan.
(2) Adopt rules and regulations for the administration of this part.
(3) Approve, modify, revise, and reject recommendations made by the director.
(4) Make reasonable investigations of all charges or complaints presented to it concerning the observance of this part.
(5) Enforce this part and the rules and regulations made pursuant thereto.
(6) Consider and determine all matters referred to it by the director.
(7) Do all things necessary and proper to improve the administration of the classified service hereby established.
(8) Advise with and assist the director in fostering and promoting the public interest.
(9) Adopt rules providing for subrogation of the city to the rights of an employee against a third party to the extent of all salary and other expenditures made or to be made by the city to or for such employee because of injuries received while in the line of duty due to the negligence of such third party.
(10) To conduct hearings and to render decisions, as hereafter provided, on charges preferred against persons in the classified service.
(11) To elect at the regular monthly meeting in January of each year one of its members to serve as chairperson of the board of the ensuing 12 months.
(12) To attend all regular meetings of the citizens supervisory committee.
(13) Exercise all other powers, functions, and duties provided by this part or essential to its effective administration.
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