Existing law provides for the membership of the Board of Trustees of the University of South Alabama. This bill would increase the number of board members from the United States at-large from two members to three members. This bill would increase the number of board members from the state at-large from five members to nine members. This bill would remove the requirement that one member be appointed from each of the following combinations of state senatorial districts: (i) the Sixteenth and Seventeenth; (ii) the Nineteenth and Twentieth; (iii) the Twenty-first; (iv) the Twenty-third, Twenty-fifth, and Thirtieth; and (v) the Thirty-fifth, and would provide that trustees currently holding those seats may complete their terms, at which point the Governor may appoint a successor reflecting the revised membership. This bill would require the board to hold a regular annual meeting during June of each year, rather than the first Monday in June. This bill would also revise notice requirements for special meetings of the board from at least 10 days in advance of the date of the meeting to as soon as practicable after the meeting is called, and in no event less than 24 hours before the meeting is scheduled to begin.

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 16-55-2, 16-55-6