§ 5. Judicial selection.

A. The council shall, by ordinance, establish a Judicial Selection Committee. Such committee shall be appointed by the mayor with the approval of the council. The committee shall be composed of five persons who are residents of the city. Within thirty days following the expiration of each two year term of the city judge, or following the time that a vacancy exists in such office, the judicial selection committee shall recommend to the council at least two persons to fill such vacancy.

B. The presiding officer of the city court shall be appointed by the council from the list of those persons recommended by the judicial selection committee.

C. Each judicial selection committee, established under the terms of this section, shall exist for the sole purpose of recommending to the city council persons to fill vacancies in the office of city judge, and immediately upon the filling of the vacancy by the city council, each judicial selection committee shall forthwith cease to exist.

(Ord. 2482, § 1 (part), 2007)