Section 64-10-103 - Board of directors(a)(1) Subject to subsection (b), the authority shall be governed by a board of directors consisting of the county mayor of each county, or the county mayor's designee, that is a member of the authority. Subject to § 64-10-115, the following counties shall comprise the authority: Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins, Jefferson, Johnson, Sullivan, Unicoi and Washington counties.(2) The term of any designee shall expire with the term of the county mayor who appointed such designee. The initial terms of designees, if any, shall be as follows: The initial terms of the designee from Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger and Greene counties shall be one-year terms; the initial terms of the designees from Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins and Jefferson counties shall be two-year terms; and the initial terms of the designee from Johnson, Sullivan, Unicoi and Washington counties shall be three-year terms. Thereafter the term of office for each designee shall be a three-year term.(3) The board shall also have two (2) nonvoting members as follows: the commissioner of agriculture or the commissioner's designee, and the dean of the University of Tennessee extension, or the dean's designee. The board of directors shall at its first meeting of each calendar year elect from its voting membership a chair, a vice chair, a secretary and a treasurer, each to serve terms of one (1) year and until a successor is elected.(4) The term of office of the county mayor on the board shall be coterminous with such official's elective term of office.(b) Should a designee board member attend less than fifty percent (50%) of the called meetings during a calendar year, the board reserves the right to declare a vacancy on the board for that position. The board shall then notify the county mayor who appointed such designee of such vacancy and, if such county mayor fails to appoint a new designee within thirty (30) days, then the board shall by majority vote replace such member with a knowledgeable person from the county for which a vacancy was declared by the board.(c) The board shall meet at least semiannually. More frequent meetings may be called at the discretion of the board.Acts 1998, ch. 998, § 4; 2003 , ch. 90, § 2; 2004, ch. 517, § 13.