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VOIVODSHIP BOARD – a collegial executive body of the self-government → voivodship appointed by the voivodship sejmik (v.s.). The five-person composition of the v.b. includes: the marshal (as its chairman), the vice-marshal (one or two) and the other members of the board. The v.s. first elects the marshal and then on his request the other members of the board. The selection of the v.b. should be made within three months from the date of publication of the results of the sejmik elections. Failing to select the v.b. within the statutory time results in dissolution of the v.s. by virtue of law and in the early election of the v.s. ordered by the voivode (it happened in the spring of 2006 in Podlaskie province). The competences of the v.b. include: executing resolutions of the v.s.; managing the property of the voivodship, including exercising the rights resulting from the stocks and shares held by the voivodship; preparing the project and executing the self-government budget of the voivodship; preparing strategic development plans, spatial development plans for the voivodship, voivodship programmes and their implementation; organising cooperation with regional self-government structures in other countries and with international regional associations; directing, coordinating and controlling the activities of voivodship self-government organisational units, including the appointment and dismissal of their managers; adopting organisational regulations of the marshal’s office. Membership in the v.b. should not be combined with membership in the body of another local-government unit (municipal council, voivodship sejmik, county board) or holding the mandate of a village mayor, with the employment in the government administration, and with the fulfilment of a parliamentary mandate. A member of the v.b. does not have to be a councillor. The v.b. can be dismissed in two cases. Obligatorily in the case of failing to be granted a vote of acceptance for the implementation of the budget. Optionally (the whole board or individual members of the board) – by resolution of the v.s., on request made by the group of at least 1/3 of its statutory composition, justified and with opinion of the revisory commission for another reason than not granting acceptance. The v.s. may dismiss the board (or individual members thereof) by resolution adopted by a majority of 3/5 of its statutory composition by secret ballot. The dismissal of the marshal of the voivodship is equal to dismissal of the whole v.b. (→ executive body of local government) [ J. Wojnicki ].

Literature: Z. Bukowski, T. Jędrzejewski, P. Rączka, Ustrój samorządu terytorialnego [The system of local government], Toruń 2013 ■ A. Piekara, Samorząd terytorialny i inne formy aktywności społecznej: dawniej i dziś [Local government and other forms of social activity: the past and present], Warszawa 2005 ■ J. Regulski, Samorząd III RP: koncepcje i realizacja [Local government of the Third Republic of Poland: concepts and implementation], Warszawa 2000.