There is created the Municipal Clerk Training Institute Committee composed of 5 municipal clerks or deputy clerks, appointed by the Governor as provided herein, and one ex-officio member designated by the governing board of any public college or university in this State at the request of the Executive Board of the Municipal Clerks of Illinois as a representative of public colleges and universities in this State. Each member appointed by the Governor after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1987 shall be a certified municipal clerk recommended by the Executive Board of the Municipal Clerks of Illinois and serving as a municipal clerk at the time he or she is so recommended and appointed. Each successor of any member appointed to the Committee as a municipal clerk or deputy clerk shall be appointed to serve for a 4 year term expiring on the third Monday in January, or until his or her successor is appointed and qualified. Any vacancy occurring in the office of a Committee member appointed by the Governor, whether by death, resignation or otherwise, shall be filled by appointment by the Governor from a recommendation or recommendations made by the Executive Board of the Municipal Clerks of Illinois, in the same manner as original appointments. A member appointed to fill a vacancy shall serve for the remainder of the unexpired term or until his or her successor is appointed and qualified. In the event the Governor refuses to appoint a municipal clerk or deputy clerk recommended by the Executive Board of the Municipal Clerks of Illinois to either a full term or, in cases of a vacancy, to the remainder of an unexpired term on the Committee, such Executive Board shall promptly recommend one or more additional qualified persons to the Governor for such appointment. The term of the ex-officio member may be designated by the governing board of any public college or university in this State at the request of the Executive Board of the Municipal Clerks of Illinois. The ex-officio member representing the public colleges and universities shall serve in an advisory capacity to the members appointed by the Governor, and such ex-officio member shall serve at the pleasure of the governing board designating them to membership on the Committee. Members of the Committee shall serve without compensation.