Prior to the adoption of Ord. 018160 on 07/06/2004, Section 18-62 read as follows.

The ~~FRB~~ board shall hold one regular meeting each quarter at a time and place to be determined by the board, and may hold such additional meetings as may be required for the transaction of ~~the~~ business ~~of the board~~. A quorum for the transaction of business at such meetings shall be a majority of the duly appointed and acting members of the board. The fire chief shall not be counted toward determining a quorum. Any board member having three (3) unscheduled absences without just cause within a period of one year, or who shall be continuously absent from meetings for any reason for a period of four (4) consecutive months (when regular meetings have been held in said four (4) months) without prior city council consent, shall automatically forfeit his office. The chair of the board is authorized to excuse any member from attendance at a board meeting; provided, that the member requested to be excused before the meeting. Any member who is absent, without being excused, from two consecutive regular meetings shall automatically forfeit the office. It shall be the duty of the chair~~man~~ of the board to promptly notify the ~~city council~~ appointing authority of the vacancy.