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Cleveland Heights committee moves into executive session to consider appointments to commissions; public meeting ends without public appointment
Summary
The Administrative Services Committee entered executive session Feb. 24 to discuss appointments to city advisory bodies after identifying vacancies on the Community Advisory Committee (CAC) and other panels. No public appointment was announced after the closed session.
The Cleveland Heights Administrative Services Committee entered an executive session during its Feb. 24 meeting to consider appointments to city advisory bodies and commissions.
Committee members said they had several vacancies to fill, including six openings on the Community Advisory Committee (CAC) — fewer than the eight vacancies previously thought — and vacancies on the Youth Recreation Advisory Committee, Transportation and Mobility Committee, and an unfair-practices panel. “For the CAC, we had previously discussed eight persons thinking that we had eight vacancies. It turns out we have six vacancies. So we've got to go into executive session to discuss that,” the committee chair said.
A motion was made to move into executive session “to consider the appointment of a public official.” The clerk was asked to call the roll before the committee recessed into closed session. The committee later returned and announced it was out of executive session at 7:16 p.m. and concluded the meeting. No public appointment or vote was recorded in the meeting minutes or on the public record at the conclusion of the session.
Members also discussed recruitment for the Youth Recreation Advisory Committee. Council members asked about outreach to area schools, private schools and homeschools and whether the committee should limit membership to students from Cleveland Heights-University Heights (CH-UH) or include neighboring jurisdictions. One council member said outreach to multiple districts had been done previously and could be used again to recruit a pool of candidates.
Because the deliberations about candidate qualifications and appointments occurred in executive session, the committee did not disclose names or deliberations about individual applicants in the public meeting.
The committee indicated it would handle remaining appointment work and return with any public actions at a future meeting.
