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Bill Tracking - 2011 session> Legislation Page 8 of 15 98.02. Composition and Terms of Office. The Board shall be composed of three members. The initial members of the Board shall be appointed in the following manner: one member shall be appointed for a term of one year, one member shall be appointed for a term of two years, and one member shall be appointed for a term of three years. As the terms of the initial members expire, their successors shall be appointed for terms of three years. All members of the Board shall meet the qualifications for such members and shall exercise their duties and powers as prescribed by the Code of Virginia, as amended. 98.03. Compensation. The City Council shallfix the compensation for members of the Board. CHAPTER 9. CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS. 99.01. Constitutional Officers. The city is committed to the continued existence of each of its constitutional officers: the Attorney for the Commonwealth, Commissioner of the Revenue, City Treasurer, City Sheriff, and Clerk of the Portsmouth Circuit Court. Each of said offices is essential to the efficient and effective operation of city government, and each office plays a separate and distinct role in that process. Each office shall continue to exercise such powers, responsibilities, and authority, express and implied, as may be set forth in the Constitution of Virginia and the Code of Virginia. CHAPTER 10. PUBLIC EDUCATION. 910.01. Composition. The city shall provide for public education through a city School Board, a Superintendent of Schools, and the employees thereof The School Board and the Superintendent of Schools shall exercise all the powers conferred and perform all the duties imposed upon them by general law. 910.02. .School Board. The School Board shall be composed of nine members who shall be elected at large for terms offour years in the manner prescribed by general law. Vacancies shall be filled in the same manner in which general law provided for the filling of vacancies of City Council members pursuant to Article 6 (9 24.2-226 et. seq) of Chapter 2 of Title 24.2 of the Code of Virginia with the interim appointment to be made by a majority vote of the remaining members of the School Board. 910.03. School Superintendent. The School Board shall appoint a School Superintendent who shall be chosen solely on the basis of his or her professional qualifications. CHAPTER 11. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. S 11.01. Creation and Term of Office. There shall be a Civil Service Commission, which shall be composed of three persons appointed by the judges of the Circuit Court of the City of Portsmouth (the Commission and the Court, respectively). No person shall be appointed a member of the Commission who is not a citizen of the United States and a resident of Portsmouth, or who holds any office or post of employment under the city, or the Commonwealth of Virginia or any political subdivision thereof, or any public service corporation owned by the city or Commonwealth, other than the office of notary public, or who is an officer or member of any national, state or local committee of any political party, or an officer of such party, or who is an officer or member of a committee of a partisan political club, or an officer of such club. Such appointments shall be made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, or national origin. The term of office of each Commissioner shall be four years. Any vacancy shall be filled by the Court for the unexpired portion httn://1i<;;:vin!ini:umv/cQ'i-hin/1eQ'n()04~exe?111 +fll1+rHA PO()40 fl1iO/7011