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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION <br />Date: March 12, 2012 <br /> Item No.: 2.a <br />Department Approval City Manager Approval <br />Item Description: Discussion of Advisory Commission Appointment Process <br />B <br />ACKGROUND <br />1 <br />2 <br />The City has six standing commissions. The Council annually appoints citizens to serve on the <br />3 <br />commissions. Commissions advise the Council on specific actions and offer citizens a way to <br />4 <br />provide input on issues of interest. <br />5 <br />6 <br />Three commissions, Ethics, Parks and Recreation and Police Civil Services have one vacancy <br />7 <br />each, and the Planning Commission has two vacancies for the three-year appointment. Terms run <br />8 <br />from April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2015. <br />9 <br />10 <br />The Council will have interviewed eight applicants three applicants for Ethics, three applicants <br />11 <br />for Parks and Recreation, five applicants for Planning and one applicant for Police Civil Service. <br />12 <br />(Several applicants are interested in one or more commission.) Commission Chairs were invited <br />13 <br />to participate in the interview process and offer their comments. Those comments are non-public <br />14 <br />data. <br />15 <br />16 <br />The Council will appoint applicants at the March 19, 2012 meeting. <br />17 <br />18 <br />No applicant applied for the Police Civil Service Commission; although, Gerald Olsen said he <br />19 <br />would like to be considered for either the Ethics or Police Civil Service Commissions if not <br />20 <br />selected for the Planning Commission. <br />21 <br />22 <br /> In accordance with city policy, if fewer applications are received than twice the number of <br />23 <br />openings, the City Council may establish a new application deadline. <br />24 <br />25 <br />Staff contacted the applicants for the Parks and Recreation and the Planning Commissions, <br />26 <br />asking if they would be interested in being considered for either the Ethics or the Police Civil <br />27 <br />Service Commission. <br />28 <br />29 <br />Nick Boulton said he would like to be considered for the Ethics Commissions if not selected for <br />30 <br />the Parks and Recreation Commission. <br />31 <br />32 <br />David Pitt and Robert Murphy are only interested in the Planning Commission. Nolan Wall is <br />33 <br />only interested in the Parks and Recreation Commission. The other applicants did not respond to <br />34 <br />the inquiry. <br />35 <br />36 <br />Page 1 of 2 <br /> <br />