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Mayor's office seeks funding for boards and commissions; mayoral staff report 36 active bodies and centralized general fund
Summary
City staff told the Finance Committee the mayor's office manages 36 boards and commissions, added three in 2024, and maintains a centralized fund to support boards without individual budgets; staff requested modest increases to stipends and operational lines to support training and administration.
Alex Voigt, deputy chief of staff in the mayors office, and Alex Alexander, the chief management officer, briefed the Finance Committee on Oct. 18 on the mayors office budget and the administration of the city's boards and commissions.
Voigt said the city currently has 36 active boards, commissions and councils and added three new bodies in 2024: an aging and community advisory board, a sister cities commission, and an Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander advisory board. He said the mayor's office processes appointments and reappointments and provides staff liaisons, training and administrative support.
The mayor's office maintains a single general board fund to supply outreach and event dollars for boards that do not have their own dedicated budgets, Voigt said, and he described the approach as having "made a great…
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