§ 10.1-2136. Foundation for Virginia's Natural Resources Board of Trustees; membership; terms; expense...
A. The Foundation shall be governed and administered by a Board of Trustees. The Board shall consist of 13 citizen members from the Commonwealth to be appointed by the Governor, and the Secretaries of Natural Resources and Agriculture and Forestry, or their designees, to serve ex officio with voting privileges. Appointments shall be made so that each of the 13 major river basins, pursuant to § 10.1-2137, is represented insuring there is adequate representation from the agriculture and forestry industries. Citizen members shall be appointed for four-year terms, except that initial appointments shall be made for terms of one to four years in a manner whereby no more than four members shall have terms that expire in the same year. The ex officio members shall serve a term coincident with their terms of office. Appointments to fill vacancies, other than by expiration of a term, shall be made for the unexpired terms. Vacancies shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointments. All members may be reappointed. However, no citizen member shall serve more than two consecutive four-year terms. The remainder of any term to which a member is appointed to fill a vacancy shall not constitute a term in determining the member's eligibility for reappointment.
B. The Governor shall appoint a chairman of the Board of Trustees. The members shall elect a vice-chairman annually from among the members of the Board. A majority of the members of the Board serving at any one time shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The Board shall meet at least four times a year and at the call of the chairman or whenever a majority of the members so request.
C. The Board shall seek assistance in developing grant criteria and advice on grant priorities and any other appropriate issues from a task force consisting of the following agency heads or their designees: the Director of the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services, the State Forester, the Director of the Department of Historic Resources, the Director of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, and the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality, and the Director of the Virginia Museum of Natural History. The Board may request any other agency head, agency employee, or environmental steward to serve on the task force.
D. The chairman of the Board shall submit to the Governor and the General Assembly a biennial executive summary of the interim activity and work of the Board no later than the first day of each even-numbered year regular session of the General Assembly. The executive summary shall be submitted as provided in the procedures of the Division of Legislative Automated Systems for the processing of legislative documents and reports and shall be posted on the General Assembly's website.
E. Members shall receive no compensation for their services, but shall be reimbursed out of the Fund for all reasonable and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties as provided in §§ 2.2-2813 and 2.2-2825.
(2005, c. 351.)
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