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Planning staff reviews newly adopted commission handbook with members
Summary
City staff walked the Planning Commission through a recently adopted commission handbook that updates meeting schedules, commission composition, Brown Act reminders, communication rules and administrative policies including a limited-printing policy and volunteer life insurance.
City development services staff presented a freshly adopted commission handbook to the Los Alamitos Planning Commission on Sept. 24, reviewing updates to meeting schedules, membership rules, communications and procedural guidance.
Staff said the handbook, adopted by the City Council on Aug. 18, 2025, consolidates guidance for commissioners and was emailed to members and embedded in the meeting packet.
Among the handbook items staff highlighted: the commission schedule will standardize meetings at 6 p.m. going forward (planning commission will meet the fourth Wednesday of the month); commission membership was reduced from seven to five members in several commissions and all…
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