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Patrick Klaers From: Nick Tamble [Ilgardens @yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 5:18 PM To: Arlene Mitchell Cc: Amy Dietl; Patrick Klaers Subject: Communications Committee and Newsletter-Where we are at Arlene, To date and to my knowledge, no one has stepped forward to fill the editor position for the Communications Committee. Also, Brenda is planning to step away from her volunteering on the committee as well. I presume my spot will potentially be filled with Dave McClung; do you know of any others who are leaving? If you know of anyone stepping forward or thinking of doing so,please bring it to my attention as I want to be in clear communication with city staff about the future of this committee. Nothing has been formally discussed, except that Pat Klaers mentioned the topic in comments last night and I spoke some on the topic as well, and have addressed the need for voluntters on multiple occasions. Would it be pertinent to "advertise" for this position in the Bulletin? I know its getting late... I will throw out some possible directions that the committee may choose to take depending on volunteers and other variables... 1) A new editor is recommended and appointed in the first quarter of 2013,we may be able to get a March issue produced without interruption. 2) No one steps up as editor, the newsletter is reduced to a quarterly publication headed up by the desktop publisher who works through the Deputy Clerk to get piece ready for print. Current writers continue to produce articles, but more infrequently,benchmarks are regularly published to the website, with the help from the current liaison. 3) Communications Committee dissolves until another committed editor steps up for the volunteer position. 4) A small sub-committee meets for a very short time (3 months) to integrate the newsletter onto the website, streamlining content and possibly allowing the newsletter to continue on at its current frequency or even every month with little/no desktop publishing need and less committment by the editor, due to the systems created by said sub-committee. In my opionion, this is the direction that the newsletter should go, or some hybrid version thereof. The document created via our website could be sent to print to Allegra or whoever with a click. I think an important factor to the credit of this committee is that it has been a volunteer committee with the exception of a small fee to the desktop publisher. I am indifferent to the idea of this committee having a paid chair, and think it would be difficult to justify,given the operation of the other committees and commissions. These ideas should be communicated to the Committee by yourself and/or me so that everyone knows what is going on, and has the opportunity to engage in this dialogue. The Communications 1