In addition, the following entities shall appoint one representative each to serve on the AIR Executive Committee. Their representative to the AIR Executive Committee shall serve the entity named here.

These entities represent the major government organizations within the San Antonio Metropolitan Statistical Area (SA/MSA). Membership shall be extended to similar local governments brought into the San Antonio Metropolitan Statistical Area through US Census redesignations of the SA/MSA boundary. Chair and vice-chair positions will be for a one-year term of office. The overall mission of this committee, its membership composition, jurisdiction and authority should be reassessed at least once by this committee after the first air quality implementation plan has been approved by the Early Action Compact signatories and has been included in the State Implementation Plan.

Decision-making is to be by general consent. On any question determined by a majority vote upon which an Executive Committee member dissents, said dissenting member may request reconsideration of said question by a weighted vote. The Chairman shall grant such request for reconsideration. All Executive Committee members shall be entitled to vote. The votes of such members, shall be weighted on the basis of the population represented by such members and the population of each general-purpose government shall be the figure used in the latest decennial United States Census Bureau census.

In consideration of a question by weighted vote, a majority vote upholding the previous action of the Committee shall decide the question. A majority vote against the previous action of the Committee shall have the effect of tabling the question without a decision.

AIR Advisory Committee
The AIR Advisory Committee acts as liaison between the AIR Executive Committee and the greater citizen sectors, both public and private. The membership of the AIR Advisory Committee will include the AIR Executive Committee membership. AIR Advisory Committee membership invitations will be extended among the following groups and individuals, and others as determined by the Executive Committee, with all membership nominations made by members of the AIR Executive Committee and final approval for membership by vote of the AIR Executive Committee:

AIR Technical Committee
The AIR Technical Committee, comprising staff members or representatives of the following local planning agencies along with one alternate, will be appointed by the named agency to provide recommendations and technical assistance on air quality technical issues to the AIR Executive Committee for the planning meetings held by the AIR Executive Committee. The AIR Executive Committee may designate other agencies to be included, with final approval by vote of the AIR Executive Committee.

AACOG
Bexar County
City Public Service
Comal County
Floresville, City of
Guadalupe County
Metropolitan Health District
Metropolitan Planning Organization
New Braunfels, City of
San Antonio, City of
Seguin, City of
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (ex-officio)
Texas Department Of Transportation (TxDOT) District Office
United States Environmental Protection Agency (ex-officio)
VIA Metropolitan Transit
Wilson County

Procedure

Meeting Times. Meetings of the Executive, Advisory and Technical committees shall be held on a regular basis at the AACOG Boardroom Room, 8626 Tesoro, Suite 100, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas or at various other times and places as the committee may wish. The meeting dates and times of each individual committee may be changed according to the consent of a majority of the voting members of each individual committee, respectively, and the consent of said majority may be affirmed by electronic mail with a read receipt or during a regularly scheduled meeting of the committee. If a meeting time is changed, a final tally shall be reported to the committee membership when the final decision is confirmed and reported back to the committee.

Rules of Order. The Chairman elected to a certain committee shall preside at all meetings of that certain committee and shall conduct same according to Roberts Rules of Order Revised, providing that said rules are applicable and not inconsistent with these bylaws. If the Chair can not be present, the Vice Chair shall preside at that meeting.

Quorum. Forty percent (40%) of the voting members of a committee being called must be in attendance at a meeting to constitute a quorum. Non-voting agenda items may be considered until a quorum is met.

Amendments

1. These bylaws may be amended at a regular meeting of the AIR Executive Committee through a majority vote of the Executive Committee membership (either regular or alternate members) present.
2. Written notice of proposed amendment(s) shall be mailed to the Executive and Advisory Committees members at least five (5) days prior to the meeting.
3. Proposed amendment(s) shall be read at the meeting and voted on.

Decorum

1. Members of the Committees.

1. A member of any of the committees who wishes recognition shall address the presiding officer, but shall not proceed with remarks until recognized and named by the chair. Remarks shall be confined to the question before the committee.
2. While a member of the committee is speaking, other members shall not hold private discourse or in any manner interrupt the speaker. In all discussions, disrespectful language and personalities shall be avoided.
3. Every member of the committee who is present when a question is stated by the chair shall vote thereon unless excused by the committee or unless the member is directly or particularly interested in the question, in which case the member shall not vote.
4. No member of the committee shall make official requests for information on behalf of any of the committees without specific authorization by the committee in question. Such requests shall be authorized only by action of the committee and shall be transmitted in writing and signed by the Committee Chair or Vice-Chair.

2. Citizens' participation. The following rules shall be in force for persons in attendance at all committee meetings, unless otherwise noted:

1. Any person wishing to address the committee during "Citizens To Be Heard " shall approach the lectern and give his/her name and address before speaking. No personal attacks shall be allowed by any speaker. All speakers shall be limited to three minutes, and no one group or organization shall be allowed more than 10 minutes to speak on any one specific issue. The maximum time available to all speakers under "Citizens To Be Heard " shall be 24 minutes total.
2. If a person wishes to speak on a matter which is an action item on the Executive Committee agenda, that person shall approach the lectern and give his/her name and address. Each person shall be allowed three minutes to address the committee on that particular agenda item, and there shall be a cumulative limit of 12 minutes for all those who speak in favor of an issue, and 12 minutes for all those who speak in opposition of an issue. No person shall be allowed to address the committee more than once until all persons who would like to address the committee regarding any particular issue have had the opportunity to do so. These same rules may apply to speakers at officially called public hearings, workshops, special meetings or regular meetings at the discretion of the Chair of such meetings, and where such rules do not conflict with rules established for those public hearings, workshops, special or regular meetings.
3. All persons wishing to speak on a matter which is an action item on the Executive Committee agenda shall either address that item during "Citizens To Be Heard" or during the time allotted for that item for speakers on the agenda, but not both.
4. Persons attending committee meetings shall remain seated except the person at the lectern. Persons in attendance shall not carry signs, placards or other items which could block the view of those behind them or be disruptive to the proceedings. No person attending any committee meeting shall delay the proceedings or refuse to obey the orders of the presiding officer.
5. Disturbances, transgressions of the rules or disorderly conduct in the committee chamber may cause the transgressor to be removed from the chamber. The chairman shall exercise control over persons who disrupt the meeting in the following ascending order of action:
   1. Call the person to order, advising that person of the infraction.
   2. Advise the person that the infraction must cease immediately or the person will be ordered to leave the meeting.
   3. Order the person to leave the meeting. If the offending person is a member of the committee, the chairman shall call for a vote on the expulsion of that member from the meeting, and such vote requires a majority for adoption.
6. Citizens are encouraged to attend committee meetings. However, the number admitted shall be limited to the fire safety capacity of the committee chambers as determined by the fire chief or his designee. If the capacity is surpassed the committee may adjourn the meeting and move its proceedings to a location that will accommodate a larger number of participants.