Saint John council appoints three members to Community Gardens Committee

The Town Council of Saint John on July 23 appointed three residents—Gerald Hahn, Antoinette Duddy and Marla Durney—to the town’s Community Gardens Committee. The appointments were made by motion and approved by voice vote, 5-0.

The council chair announced the three names and asked for a motion to appoint them; council members approved the nominations without recorded discussion of the candidates’ qualifications, terms, or committee responsibilities. The meeting transcript shows the chair offered an apology on pronunciation and proceeded to a vote. The public record provided does not include paperwork, term lengths, or draft bylaws for the Community Gardens Committee.

Appointments to advisory committees are typically administrative actions that enable committees to begin work; the council did not record a timeline for the committee’s first meeting or assigned staff liaisons during the item presented on the record.