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foregoing, if the duties of the associate members of those committees do not include site visits, City Council approval shall not be required. (d) Notification of resignations or terminations of committee members shall be submitted to the City Council in writing. Notification of appointments and resignations of associate members shall be submitted to the City Clerk in writing. Vacancies in the membership of any Standing Committee with the exception of the Councilmembers serving as voting members on any Standing Committee shall be filled in the following manner: (i) The City Cleric shall post in three (3) public places in the Town a notice of the fact that a vacancy has occurred and that the applications will be received prior to a date stated in the notice. (ii) All persons interested in serving shall submit to the City Clerk a written request for appointment containing such information on their background and qualifications as they deem appropriate. The City Clerk shall notify all applicants of the Council meeting at which their application shall be considered. (iii) The City Council shall, during a public meeting, appoint Standing Committee members by selecting appointees from a roster of persons offered by individual Council members and applications from candidates. The City Council shall endeavor to appoint the best qualified persons. (e) One member of the City Council shall be designated by the Mayor as a liaison for each Standing Committee with the exception of the Finance and Investment Committee which shall include two council liaison members (MayorNice-Mayor). The designated Council liaison(s) may attend meetings of the Standing.Committee to which he or she is assigned, and shall try to do so at least quarterly, but shall not vote. The Council liaison shall contact each member of the Standing Committee to which he or she has been assigned at least once annually to determine any problems which may exist and to receive information for use in Council evaluations of Standing Committee actions and direction. . Section 4. Organization of Standing Committees. The following general rules shall be applicable to the organization and conducting of business by each Standing Committee: (a) Each Standing Committee shall establish a time and place for its regular meetings. Once the Standing Committee has established a time and place for its regular meetings, the Standing Committee shall request the City Council to approve the time and place of the regular meeting. The City Clerk shall cause notice of the schedule of regular meetings to be posted on the bulletin board at Town Hall. The agenda shall be set by the Chairperson, but upon the request of any Standing Committee member an item shall be placed on the agenda. Agendas of meetings shall be posted in compliance with the provisions of the Ralph M. Brown Act (commencing with Government Code Section 54950), as hereafter amended. No Standing Committee meeting shall be considered to have been held unless notice of the time and date of the meeting shall have been properly available pursuant to the Ralph M. Brown Act, as hereafter amended, and unless a quorum shall have been present. Special meetings of a Standing Committee may only be called by the Standing Committee Chairperson, Mayor or City Manager and must be called in accordance with the Ralph M. Brown Act. Resolution 94-16 Page 3