Article 2. California Public Broadcasting Commission of California Government Code >> Division 1. >> Title 2. >> Chapter 10. >> Article 2.

The California Public Broadcasting Commission is hereby created in state government as an independent commission in order to encourage the growth and development of public broadcasting services to the people of this state.

The commission shall consist of 11 members, as follows:
  (a) Five members appointed by the Governor for terms of five years, except that the terms of the original members shall be as follows: one member shall be appointed for one year, one member for two years, one member for three years, one member for four years, and one member for five years. One such appointee shall be from a commercial broadcast station.
  (b) Two members appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly for terms of four years, except that the terms of the original members shall be as follows: one member shall be appointed for one year, and one member for three years.
  (c) Two members appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules for terms of four years, except that the terms of the original members shall be as follows: one member shall be appointed for two years, and one member for four years.
  (d) The Superintendent of Public Instruction.
  (e) The Director of the Postsecondary Education Commission. All initial appointments shall be made on or before March 1, 1976, and all subsequent vacancies shall be filled within 30 days of their occurrence by the authority which made the original appointment to the vacant position. At no time shall more than six members of the commission be affiliated with the same political party.

Appointees to the commission shall be persons who are eminent in such fields as education, cultural affairs, public service, or the arts, including public broadcasting. They shall, as nearly as practicable, provide a broad representation of the various regions of the state, various professions and occupations, and various kinds of talent and experience appropriate to the functions and responsibilities of the commission.

The appointive members of the commission shall be compensated at the rate of one hundred dollars ($100) for each day of official commission meetings they attend. Commission members shall be reimbursed for expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties.

The commission shall select annually from among its membership a chairman and vice chairman.

The commission shall appoint an executive secretary and employ such staff as it may deem necessary in performing the duties prescribed by this chapter.

The commission shall, in carrying out its responsibility and exercising its authority, make maximum use, for the purposes of economy, efficiency, and effectiveness, of existing public broadcast facilities in California, as well as state-owned telecommunications facilities appropriate for use in interconnection.

(a) The commission shall adopt and enforce reasonable standards governing the acceptance of any salary or other compensation by its employees from sources other than the commission during the course of their employment by the commission.
  (b) The executive secretary, subject to general policies adopted by the commission, may appoint or remove, subject to civil service, such employees of the commission as deemed necessary to carry out the purposes of the commission.

The meetings of the commission shall be open and public in accordance with Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 3.