2014 Virginia Code
Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns
§ 15.2-7206. Organization; compensation

A simple majority of the directors in office shall constitute a quorum. No vacancy in the Board of Directors shall impair the right of a quorum to exercise all the rights and perform all the duties of the Authority.

The Board of Directors shall hold regular meetings at such times and places as may be established by its bylaws.

The Board of Directors shall hold its first organizational meeting on July 1, 2010. Bylaws shall be duly adopted and published at said meeting. Also at said meeting, the Board of Directors shall elect a chairman and a vice-chairman from its membership and a secretary of the Board from the staff of the Authority to take office as of that same date. Thereafter the Board of Directors shall annually elect a chairman and a vice-chairman from its membership and a secretary from the staff of the Authority at its June meeting, to take office on the following July 1. The terms of such officers shall be for one year.

The Board of Directors shall continue to appoint and contract with a president and CEO to manage the operations of the Authority and a licensed attorney to serve as general counsel for the Authority, and the contracts with the president and general counsel of Bristol Virginia Utilities shall continue in effect and be binding upon the Authority. The Board of Directors shall also authorize the position of executive vice-president and CFO, to be filled and managed by the president. The president shall have the authority to hire, fire, and manage such staff as the president deems expedient to the operation of the Authority, subject to the availability of budgeted funds, and to assign such positions, titles, powers, and duties at such salaries as the president deems most effective for the efficient operation of the Authority.

Except for the purpose of inquiry, the Board and its individual members shall deal with Authority employees solely through the president. Neither the Board nor any member thereof shall give orders to any of the subordinates of the president, either publicly or privately. Any such orders or other interferences on the part of the Board or any of its members with subordinates or appointees of the president, instead of dealing or communicating directly with the president, are prohibited. Neither shall the Board or any of its members direct the appointment or removal of any person from any office or employment by the president or any of his subordinates. Nothing herein shall be construed to limit or prohibit contact with the president and general counsel, both of whom report directly to the Board.

The Board of Directors shall make and, by recorded affirmative vote of three-fourths of all members, amend and repeal bylaws governing the manner in which the Authority's business may be transacted and in which the power granted to it may be enjoyed not inconsistent with this chapter. The initial set of such bylaws shall be adopted at the first regular meeting of the Board following the Board's first organizational meeting. The Board of Directors may appoint such committees as it may deem advisable and fix the duties and responsibilities of such committees. The Board of Directors shall have the power to request amendments to this chapter as set forth by the Code of Virginia that the Board deems necessary and expedient for the proper operation of the Authority.

2010, cc. 117, 210.