                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

BOARD OF TRUSTEES; MEMBERSHIP (§ 2.2-2338)

There is hereby created a political subdivision and public body corporate and
politic of the Commonwealth of Virginia to be known as the Fort Monroe
Authority, to be governed by a Board of Trustees (Board) consisting of 14
members appointed as follows: the Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources
and the Secretary of Commerce and Trade, or their successor positions if those
positions no longer exist, from the Governor&#8217;s cabinet; the member of the
Senate of Virginia and the member of the House of Delegates representing the
district in which Fort Monroe lies; two members appointed by the Hampton City
Council; and eight nonlegislative citizen members appointed by the Governor,
seven of whom shall have expertise relevant to the implementation of the Fort
Monroe Reuse Plan, including but not limited to the fields of historic
preservation, tourism, environment, real estate, finance, and education, and one
of whom shall be a citizen representative from the Hampton Roads region. The
Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources and the Secretary of Commerce and
Trade shall serve ex officio without voting privileges and may send their
deputies or another cabinet member to meetings in the event that official duties
require their presence elsewhere. Cabinet members and elected representatives
shall serve terms commensurate with their terms of office. Legislative members
may send another legislator to meetings as full voting members in the event that
official duties require their presence elsewhere.
		The Board so appointed shall enter upon the performance of its duties and
shall initially and annually thereafter elect one of its members as chairman and
another as vice-chairman. The Board shall also elect annually a secretary, who
shall be a member of the Board, and a treasurer, who need not be a member of the
Board, or a secretary-treasurer, who need not be a member of the Board. The
chairman, or in his absence the vice-chairman, shall preside at all meetings of
the Board, and in the absence of both the chairman and vice-chairman, the Board
shall elect a chairman pro tempore who shall preside at such meetings. Seven
Trustees shall constitute a quorum, and all action by the Board shall require
the affirmative vote of a majority of the Trustees present and voting, except
that any action to amend or terminate the existing Reuse Plan, or to adopt a new
Reuse Plan, shall require the affirmative vote of 75 percent or more of the
Trustees present and voting. The members of the Board shall be entitled to
reimbursement for expenses incurred in attendance upon meetings of the Board or
while otherwise engaged in the discharge of their duties. Such expenses shall be
paid out of the treasury of the Authority in such manner as shall be prescribed
by the Authority.

HISTORY: 2011, cc. 716, 780, 858; 2014, cc. 115, 490, 676, 681; 2017, cc. 215,
732; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 401.