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ADOPT A RESOLUTION APPOINTING MEMBERS OF THE STRONG COMMUNITIES ADVISORY COMMITTEE
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RECOMMENDATION
It is recommended that the City Council adopt a resolution:
1) Ratifying the following appointments to the Strong Communities Advisory Committee for terms commencing on appointment and ending June 30, 2020:
Mas’ood Cajee, (Mayor Tubbs)
Kevin Redick, (Councilmember Wright)
Lorraine Lauper, (Councilmember Lenz)
Yvonne Trevino, (Councilmember Andrade)
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DISCUSSION
Background
On June 7, 2016, the Stockton City Council adopted Resolution 2016-06-07-1212 to adopt an Ordinance imposing a ¼ cent sales tax and authorizing the formation of a Citizens’ Advisory Committee through Ordinance 2016-06-07-1212 contingent upon voter consideration and approval at the November 8, 2016 general municipal election (Measure M).
Section 17 of the adopted Ordinance provides for the creation of a seven-member Citizens’ Advisory Committee. Members of the Committee shall be appointed by the City Council to serve two-year terms. As stated in the Ordinance, the Advisory Committee shall meet annually to review the expenditure of revenues generated by the tax and make recommendations to the City Council regarding those expenditures.
The recruitment opened October 1, 2017 and concluded October 2, 2018, with a total of 13 applications being received.
These applications were provided to the City Council for consideration, and Councilmembers have submitted their recommendations. The applications for the four candidates being considered this evening are attached (Attachment B).
Present Situation
At the City Council meeting of July 25, 2017, the City Council discussed Committee appointment options. From these discussions, there was consensus that each member of the City Council, including the Mayor, shall nominate one member to the Committee. For Councilmember appointments, nominees need not be from their respective districts. The City Council shall then approve by majority vote all the nominations to the Committee.
Additionally, due to the shorter, two-year term of service, City Council expressed a desire to exclude the Strong Communities Advisory Committee members from the two-term limit as stated in Council Policy 3.02 for City Boards and Commissions.
To better align appointments to the Committee with the terms of the appointing Councilmember and to stagger the Committee makeup, initial appointments were selected to have a shorter term of service. The rationale for selecting which Council Districts would initially have shorter terms is based on the closest alignment with Council terms. With the Council elections in 2018, appointments from Councilmembers in Districts 1, 3, and 5 will expire June 30, 2019. This will provide any newly elected Councilmembers who take office January 2019 the opportunity to make appointments to this Committee. Appointments from the Mayor and Councilmembers in Districts 2, 4, and 6 expired June 30, 2018, thereby staggering the committee terms.
Having term expiration dates of June 30 standardizes the terms with the City Clerk’s recruitment efforts for all Boards and Commissions.
FINANCIAL SUMMARY
There is no financial impact to the General Fund from the appointments to this committee. Committee members do not receive remuneration.
Attachment A - Ordinance 2016-06-07-1212
Attachment B - Applications