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Board re‑elects officers, approves minor rule edits and completes ethics training
Summary
At the May 28 meeting the board re‑elected Julie Ryan Caputo to chair and Terrence Bond as vice chair, adopted small language edits to meeting rules, and received required ethics training from Metro legal staff.
The Metropolitan Short Term Rental Board of Appeals completed organizational business at the end of its May 28, 2025 session, re‑electing officers, approving a minor rules cleanup and receiving the board’s biennial ethics briefing.
Julie Ryan Caputo was re‑elected chair and Terrence Bond was re‑elected vice chair by acclamation. The board then approved minor language corrections to meeting procedures — chiefly pluralization and clarifying submission instructions in rule text — as presented in the staff packet. The changes were procedural and not substantive changes to how appeals are decided.
Metro Legal provided the board’s required ethics training. The presentation summarized Metro’s general ethics code (Metro Code sec. 2.222), prohibited conduct (including acceptance of gifts intended to influence decision‑making), the requirement that deliberations occur in public meetings and not by private email or text among board members, and the standards for recusal where a member has a financial interest or cannot be impartial. Legal staff encouraged members to route outside contacts about pending cases to board staff and to document any recusal or conflict at the start of meetings or before individual agenda items.
During the discussion of rules and quorum the board noted the practical effects of attendance and recusal on meeting business and that the full membership could revisit quorum language after outstanding vacancies are filled. The housekeeping votes were unanimous among voting members present.
