2.31.030 Membership.
A. Number of Members. The affordable housing committee shall be comprised of 11 voting members, plus five ex-officio nonvoting members.
B. Residency/Representation. Members shall reside within the McMinnville urban growth boundary, shall attend school in McMinnville, or shall be employees or officers of organizations that provide housing-related services in McMinnville. A majority of members shall reside within the city limits. The city council can appoint a member to the committee who does not meet these requirements if it is determined that the member brings significant value to the purpose of the committee. Individual seats are not geographically designated by ward.
C. Qualifications. The McMinnville affordable housing committee shall be comprised of the following members:
1. City Council Representatives. Two representatives of the city council, as voting members.
2. Direct Appointments. In addition to the two city council members, the city council shall directly appoint nine additional voting members, which may include any combination of knowledge and experience beneficial to the work of the committee. The combined composition of the committee should, at any given time, include representation providing diversity of perspectives and diversity of vocational, cultural, and life experiences.
Members need not be engaged in a vocation related to housing, but have a passion to work to address affordable housing and homelessness. It is preferred that there is not an undue concentration of members representing the same specific vocation.
It is desirable that the composition include some individuals directly engaged in a vocation related to the development and provision of housing and related services across the full spectrum of housing needs affordable to the community, including owner- and renter-occupied housing, market rate housing, subsidized housing, transitional housing, and shelter.
Examples of different housing-related vocational perspectives may include: private sector housing development and/or management addressing market rate solutions to affordable housing (ownership and rental); nonprofit provision of subsidized housing and services; business representation with perspective of workforce housing needs; advocate for overcoming homelessness and engaged in solutions for temporary and transitional housing and services for people experiencing homelessness; banking and finance representation, with knowledge and experience in conventional and creative financing of affordable housing, transitional housing, and shelter; youth representation with a perspective of the housing needs of youth in the community, including youth who may be entering the workforce who wish to remain in the community or relocate to the community.
3. Ex-Officio Members. In addition to the voting members, the committee shall include permanent standing nonvoting ex-officio membership positions for representatives of organizations or departments involved in affordable housing and related issues, such as Housing Authority of Yamhill County (HAYC), Yamhill Community Action Partnership (YCAP), Habitat for Humanity, and Yamhill County Health and Human Services. The director may also specify an alternate to attend on behalf of the director or director’s designee in the event of absence of the director or director’s designee.
D. Appointments. The city council will appoint the committee members.
E. Terms. All terms are for three years commencing with January of each year. Any vacancy which may occur shall be filled by the city council for the unexpired portion of the term.
F. Removal. A committee member may be removed by the city council for misconduct, nonperformance of duty, or three successive unexcused absences from regular meetings. The affordable housing committee may, by motion, request that a member be removed by the appointing body. If the appropriate governing body finds misconduct, nonperformance of duties or three successive unexcused absences from regular meetings by the member, the member shall be removed. (Ord. 5100 §1 (Exh. A), 2021).