The Board shall consist of six members to be known as Trustees, three of whom shall be appointed by the Mayor of the City of St. Louis and three of whom shall be appointed by the County Executive of St. Louis County. Each Trustee shall be appointed for a term of four years. No Trustee shall serve more than two full consecutive terms plus any portion of an unexpired term. Provided, however, that each Trustee shall serve until his successor shall be appointed and qualified. Not more than two Trustees appointed from said City or County, as the case may be, shall be affiliated with the same political party.

When a vacancy occurs on the Board, the Mayor or County Executive, as the case may be, may appoint Trustees directly or from a list of nominees submitted by one or more residents of the District. Not less than 90 days prior to the expiration of any Trustee’s term, the District shall publish a notice at least once in one or more newspapers of general publication published in the District that such Trustee’s term is expiring. The notice shall also contain a description of the responsibilities and qualifications of a Trustee, and state that ratepayers and residents are invited to submit nominations to the Mayor or County Executive, as the case may be. In the case of a vacancy resulting in an unexpired term, the Mayor or County Executive may request and the District then shall publish such notice.

Each Trustee appointed by said Mayor shall be a registered voter of the City of St. Louis, shall have been a resident thereof for at least three years next before his appointment, and shall continue to reside therein during his tenure of office. Each Trustee appointed by said County Executive shall be a registered voter of St. Louis County, shall have been a resident of said County for at least three years next before his appointment, and at the time of his appointment and during his tenure of office shall be a resident of the portion of said County situated within the District. Each Trustee shall comply with all applicable provisions of Missouri law with respect to conflicts of interest. No person holding an office of profit under the United States or any state or local government shall be appointed to the Board, members of the organized militia or of the reserve corps and notaries public excepted. No person who shall have been convicted of a felony, malfeasance in office, bribery, or other corrupt practice, or of a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude shall be appointed to the Board, and if any Trustee shall be so convicted, he shall thereby forfeit his office.

Any Trustee appointed by said Mayor or County Executive, as the case may be, may be removed by said Mayor or County Executive, as the case may be, only upon charges and a finding of nonfeasance, malfeasance, or misfeasance in office and after a public hearing to be held not less than ten days and not more than sixty days after a written statement of the specific acts charged has been given to such a member and a copy thereof filed with the Secretary-Treasurer of the District. At the hearing, the Trustee may be represented by an attorney and shall be entitled to present witnesses in his defense. The decision of said Mayor or County Executive, as the case may be, shall be final. A copy of such decision shall be filed with the Secretary-Treasurer of the District.

The compensation of a Trustee shall be the sum of twenty-five dollars for each day on which he actually attends a regular or special meeting of the Board. Trustees shall be reimbursed for their necessary and reasonable expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties.

The Board shall hold regular meetings at such times as may be prescribed by ordinance, but not less than once each month. All meetings of the Board shall be open to the public as provided by law. Special meetings may be called in such manner as may be prescribed by ordinance. The Mayor of the City of St. Louis and the County Executive of St. Louis County are invited to attend or be represented at all Board meetings.

The Board shall determine its own rules and order of business and shall keep a journal of its proceedings. A majority of the members of the Board shall constitute a quorum, but a smaller number present at any meeting may adjourn from day to day or to a day certain and may compel the attendance of absent members in such manner and under such penalties as the Board may by ordinance provide.

Ordinances, resolutions, regulations, rules, and orders shall be introduced by a member or members of the Board or by the Board as a whole, and said ordinances, resolutions, regulations, rules, and orders shall be in written or printed form. The enacting clause of all ordinances passed by the Board shall be: "Be It Ordained by the Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District." An affirmative vote by two members of the Board appointed from the City of St. Louis and two members of the Board appointed from St. Louis County shall be necessary to pass any ordinance, resolution, regulation, rule, or order. On the final passage of any ordinance, resolution, regulation, rule, or order, the yeas and nays shall be entered by name on the journal, and at the request of any one member of the Board the yeas and nays on any other question shall be so entered. All ordinances, resolutions, regulations, rules, orders, and proceedings of the Board shall be public records and shall be kept in bound form and available for public examination.

No ordinance shall be revived or re-enacted by mere reference to the title thereof, but the same shall be set forth at length. No section or sections of any ordinance shall be amended except that the section or sections amended shall be set forth in full as amended.

The title of all ordinances shall be read at least once in open session of the Board before passage, and without unanimous consent of all members of the Board present no final vote shall be taken on the passage thereof until the expiration of at least fourteen days from the time that such ordinance was first introduced; provided that an ordinance which has been introduced may be amended after introduction and prior to its passage if such amendments are germane to the original purpose of the ordinance.

Every ordinance except an appropriation ordinance an emergency measure or as provided in Article 7 addressing the Rate Commission, shall take effect at the expiration of fifteen days after the date said ordinance is enacted, unless a later date therefor be fixed therein. An appropriation ordinance or an emergency measure shall take effect immediately upon its enactment; provided, however, that no ordinance shall be designated an emergency measure unless it contains the statement that an emergency exists and specifies distinctly the facts and reasons constituting the emergency.

A continuing five-year strategic and operating plan for the District shall be adopted on an annual basis by the Board. The strategic and operating plan shall state the District’s objectives for the succeeding five years and include objective targets by which to measure the District’s performance in meeting these objectives.