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Recommendations to restore ethics to HRA appointment process: · Ms. Pust should honor the statement she made in January concerning council interviews. "Councilmember Pust suggested that, following receipt of applications from interested citizens; if warranted, the interviews be eliminated if only Mr. Maschka's and one previous application to the HRA was received." -January 8, 2007 meeting minutes · The council should reject Mr. Klausing's attempt to make the appointment this evening for the HRA term that runs from September 2007 to September 2012. The only term open is the term that runs from today to September 2007. Note, that the council rejected Mr. Klausing's attempts to make April 2007 citizen advisory commission appointments in November 2006. · The council should hold a public policy discussion on the issue of council liaisons. Until a council resolution is adopted, Ms. Pust should temporarily step down from her voting position on the HRA. Questions that need to be answered include why the commission with the most activity with the city council, the Planning Commission, does not have a liaison? What is the history of council members serving as voting liaisons to commissions? Should council members serve as voting and fully participating members to a commission, which in many cases gives them two votes in the process, one vote at the HRA and a second vote at the city council? · The council should immediately apply all aspects of the council citizen advisory commission resolution with the exception of the one or two small parts which conflict with the appointment/confirmation process setup in law for the HRA, effective with the fall 2007 appointment terms. This will require the council to abide by an open application process, a consistent reappointment process, and a public interview process.