City Council delays commission appointments
November 12, 2009
By J.B. Wogan
New: Nov. 12, 10:45 a.m.
Residents hoping to join the city’s citizen advisory boards will have to wait until January before undergoing interviews with the City Council.
The boards taking on new members deal with land-use policy and public art. Both deliver recommendations to the council.
In past years, the council has conducted its interviews and taken votes in November and December, with the intention of having new members of its advisory boards ready to go in January. The council had scheduled interviews for Nov. 10 and Nov. 16 for people applying for the Planning Commission and Arts Commission.
At the Nov. 10 council meeting, Deputy Mayor Jack Barry said that he, along with the mayor and deputy mayor, decided to delay interviews in light of the election results. Rather than make lame duck appointments, the council will wait until its three new members — John Curley, John James and Tom Odell — are seated. Those new members will constitute nearly half of the seven-person council.
“It was decided that that opportunity should be put off until the first of the year,” Barry said.
Three spots on the Planning Commission and four spots on the Arts Commission are opening up.
The 17 people applying for the Planning Commission include current commissioner Mahbubul Islam; C.J. Kahler, Jason Coppola, D. Brent Jones, Joe Lipinsky, Kathy Richardson, Robert Sorensen, Ramiro Valderrama, Jeff Wasserman, Ashley Warwick, Frank Blau, Mike Collins, David Hanson, Suki Otal, David Spinelli, Michael Rutt, and Linda Eastlake.
The 12 people applying for Arts Commission positions include current commissioners Barbara Jirsa, Deborah Akerstrom, and Bala Subramanian; Shashi Shashidhar, Vanessa Martinez, Archana Sunil, Rochelle Wyatt, Sarah Brighton, Jingyu Li, Anna Macrae, Molly Strange, and Bharath Sankaranarayan.
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