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COUNCIL COMMITTEES
Staff Contact: Brent Stoddard, Director, Public Affairs
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Purpose and Policy Guidance
Recommendation
This is a request for Council to discuss and appoint membership to Council Committees for the 2017-2018 Fiscal Year, pursuant to the City Council Guidelines.
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Background
Section 9 of the City Council Guidelines specifies that the Council shall consider appointments to Council Committees at the first workshop in June of each year. There are currently three Council Committees, the Government Services Committee (GSC), the temporary Business Committee, and the Sustainability Committee which has been inactive since 2012.
Adopted City Council Guidelines, Section 9, pertains to the appointment of membership to committees and reads as follows:
9. COUNCIL COMMITTEES
At the first Workshop in June of each year, the Council will appoint membership to standing Council committees for the following fiscal year. The Mayor will ask the Councilmembers to indicate which committee they wish to serve on.
Each committee will be comprised of three members. The members of each committee will select their own chairperson at the first committee meeting. Councilmembers may not serve as Chairperson of more than one committee at a time unless the number of committees is greater than the number of Councilmembers. In that case, the limit is two chairmanships.
The council may form a temporary (one-year) council committee and allow a defined number of members of the public to serve on the committee. The three members of the committee will select a chair from amongst the councilmembers serving on the committee. The committee will sunset one-year after the date of the first meeting. Any sunset extensions must be approved by the city council.
Effective August 13, 2013, a two-year consecutive term limit with appointment annually for membership of councilmembers on Council subcommittees begins.
If new Councilmembers are seated prior to...
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