Senate Bill sb1720

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    Florida Senate - 2003                                  SB 1720

    By Senator Webster





    9-817A-03                                           See HB 773

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the Central Florida Regional

  3         Transportation Authority; amending s. 343.63,

  4         F.S.; revising membership of the governing

  5         board of the authority; providing an effective

  6         date.

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  8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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10         Section 1.  Subsections (2) and (3) of section 343.63,

11  Florida Statutes, are amended to read:

12         343.63  Central Florida Regional Transportation

13  Authority.--

14         (2)  The governing board of the authority shall consist

15  of seven 11 voting members, and 1 nonvoting member as follows:

16         (a)  The chair of the county commissions of Seminole,

17  Orange, and Osceola Counties shall each serve, ex officio, for

18  the term of their respective chairs elect a commissioner as

19  that commission' s representative on the board. The

20  commissioner must be a member of the county commission when

21  elected and for the full extent of his or her term. The terms

22  of the county commissioners on the governing board of the

23  authority shall be 2 years.

24         (b)  One member shall be mayor of a municipality within

25  Seminole, Orange, or Osceola County representing the largest

26  municipal contributor and shall serve a term concurrent with

27  the term of the appointing Governor.

28         (c)(b)  The Governor shall appoint three members to the

29  board pursuant to local government funding as determined by

30  the sum of contributions for the respective local government

31  for 4 years preceding the appointment as follows:

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    Florida Senate - 2003                                  SB 1720
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  1         1.  Two members shall be appointed to serve a term

  2  concurrent with the term of the appointing Governor and shall

  3  be appointed from the local government making the largest

  4  contribution. However, if the sum of the contributions of the

  5  remaining local governments, excluding the contributions of

  6  the largest local government contributor, are at least 50

  7  percent of the authority's total local funding contribution,

  8  one appointment shall be made from the local government making

  9  the second largest contribution. The mayor or chair of the

10  county commission representing the respective local

11  governments entitled to a gubernatorial appointment shall

12  provide a list of three nominees to the Governor for each

13  appointment to the board. The Governor shall appoint one

14  member from each list mayors of the cities of Altamonte

15  Springs, Orlando, and Kissimmee, or a member of each city

16  commission designated by each mayor, shall serve a term of 2

17  years on the board.

18         2.  One member shall be a resident of either of the two

19  remaining counties other than the county meeting the

20  qualifications of subparagraph 1. The chairs of the two

21  remaining county commissions of such counties shall each

22  provide the Governor with a list of three nominees and the

23  Governor shall appoint one member from such list of nominees.

24         (d)(c)  The terms of the current governing board

25  members shall terminate on June 1, 2003, at which time the

26  terms of the members designated pursuant to paragraphs (b) and

27  (c) shall commence. The Governor shall make appointments to

28  the board within 30 days after receipt of the nominations

29  pursuant to paragraph (c), for a term beginning June 1, 2003,

30  or as soon thereafter as practical appoint five members to the

31  board. Two of the members shall be residents of Orange County,

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    Florida Senate - 2003                                  SB 1720
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  1  one member shall be a resident of Seminole County, one member

  2  shall be a resident of Osceola County, and one member shall be

  3  a resident of the City of Orlando. All five members shall

  4  serve a term of 4 years.

  5         (d)  The Secretary of Transportation shall appoint the

  6  district secretary, or his or her designee, for the district

  7  within which the area served by the authority is located and

  8  this member shall be a nonvoting member.

  9         (3)  A vacancy during a term shall be filled by the

10  respective appointing authority in the same manner as the

11  original appointment and only for the balance of the unexpired

12  term.

13         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

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