The Orange County Transportation Commission shall be known as the Orange County Transportation Authority and shall be governed by a board of directors consisting of 18 members appointed as follows:

(a) Five members of the Orange County Board of Supervisors appointed by that board. Terms of office of the five members of the board of supervisors shall be determined by the board of supervisors. A board of supervisors member’s term shall cease if he or she no longer serves as a member of the board of supervisors.

(b) (1) (A) Five city members, with one from each of the five supervisorial districts, elected by the Orange County City Selection Committee members within each supervisorial district on a population-weighted voting basis.

(B) Five city members, with one from each of the five supervisorial districts, elected on a “one city, one vote” basis by the Orange County City Selection Committee members within each supervisorial district.

(2) A city that is within more than one supervisorial district shall be considered part of the district where the highest percentage of the city’s population resides. Under this circumstance, the entire city’s population shall be used for population-weighted voting purposes. Each city member shall be a mayor or a city council member serving within the county. Terms of office of each city member shall be determined by the Orange County City Selection Committee. A city member’s term shall cease if he or she no longer serves as a member of a city council or as the mayor of a city.

(3) A city member serving on the authority on the effective date of the act amending this section in the 2003-04 Regular Session shall continue to serve until the earliest of either the expiration of his or her term or until he or she no longer serves as a mayor or member of a city council.

(c) Two public members appointed by a majority vote of the other 15 voting members of the authority. Each public member shall be a resident of Orange County who is not then serving, and has not within the last four years served, as an elected official of a city within the county, as an elected official of any agency or special district within Orange County, or as an elected official of the county. Each public member shall serve for a term of four years.

(d) The Director of Transportation, District 12, who shall be appointed by the Governor as a nonvoting member. The member shall serve for a term of four years.

(Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 469, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2005.)