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Infrastructure Task Force members agree to seek meeting with City Commission on long-term structure
Summary
Members of the Fort Lauderdale Infrastructure Task Force Advisory Committee agreed to request a meeting with the City Commission to discuss the panel’s long-term mission, membership terms and possible transition from a temporary task force to a standing advisory board.
Members of the Fort Lauderdale Infrastructure Task Force Advisory Committee agreed at their meeting to request a meeting with the City Commission to discuss the panel’s long-term role, composition and term structure.
The committee said continuing to reappoint the group year to year undermines institutional memory and complicates oversight of multiyear capital projects such as consent-order compliance and major pump-station and force-main work. Several members urged the commission to consider staggered terms, alternate (nonvoting) members or reconstituting the group as a standing infrastructure advisory board.
Committee members said the current ‘‘task force’’ label and one-year reappointments do not match the multi-year work the panel reviews. Roosevelt, a…
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