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2016 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 22.1-354.6 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 22.1-354.6. Northern Neck-Middle Peninsula Public Education Consortium created; region defined; governing board; membership; terms; compensation and expenses.
A. The Northern Neck-Middle Peninsula Public Education
Consortium is hereby established as an independent local entity without
political subdivision status and shall be referred to in this chapter as the
Consortium. For the purposes of this chapter and the work of the Consortium,
"Northern Neck-Middle Peninsula" shall include includes
the Counties of Essex, Gloucester, King and Queen, King George, King
William, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, Northumberland, Richmond, and
Westmoreland. The governing board of the Consortium shall consist of the school
superintendents of the named localities, the president or his designee
President of Rappahannock Community College or his designee, the
Director of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, and seven nonlegislative
citizen members representing business, industry, and community interests in the
region, four of whom shall be appointed by the Speaker of the House of
Delegates and three of whom shall be appointed by the Senate Committee on
Rules. The region's legislators, representing the Third, Fourth,
Sixth, and Twenty-eighth Senatorial Districts and the Ninety-seventh, Ninety-eighth,
and Ninety-ninth and One-hundredth House Districts, shall serve
as nonvoting, advisory members of the board. Legislative members and
members who serve by virtue of their office shall serve terms coincident with
their terms of office. The nonlegislative citizen members shall serve terms of
two years and may be reappointed for successive terms. The board may appoint
additional nonvoting, advisory members to assist in the performance of
its duties. Vacancies occurring other than by expiration of a term shall be
filled for the unexpired term. Vacancies shall be filled in the same manner as
the original appointments.
B. No board members shall receive compensation or reimbursement for expenses incurred in the performance of their duties. The board shall elect a chairman and a vice-chairman from among its members and may provide such rules as it considers appropriate concerning its membership, quorum, and establishment of committees.