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Florence City Council confirms board appointments, clarifies housing-authority term
Summary
At a Florence City Council meeting, members confirmed several appointments to advisory boards and voted to confirm that the assistant commissioner serving on the Florence Housing Authority serves until a successor is named under state law.
Florence City Council confirmed multiple appointments to city boards and commissions and voted to clarify the term of the assistant commissioner on the Florence Housing Authority during a council meeting.
The council approved appointments to Veterans Park and the Resilience and Sustainability Advisory Committee and recorded nominations for the Design Review Board. Councilmembers also voted to confirm that the assistant commissioner serving on the board of commissioners of the Florence Housing Authority serves until a new appointee is named, in accordance with state law.
City staff reported several current vacancies and expired terms across boards. The Civic Center Commission has one expired term assigned to Councilwoman Nee Smith Jackson for follow-up. The Design Review Board has one vacancy and one expired term; staff noted the board needs a professional engineer, a structural engineer and an architect. Michael Padgett and Nick Gaddy were identified as professional-engineer and architect candidates, respectively. The Construction Board of Maintenance and Adjustments and Appeals had two vacancies and no applicants, and that item was deferred. Veterans Park had one vacancy; Councilman McKay nominated Curtis Reed Sturgeon to fill that slot. The Resilience and Sustainability Advisory Committee had two vacancies; Councilman McKay nominated William Edwards and Chris Coffin.
Councilmembers approved the nominations and appointments by voice vote. Where the meeting record shows only a voice vote, the council determined the motions carried by ayes and no roll-call tallies were provided in the transcript.
Separately, a councilmember moved to “clarify and confirm that the assistant commissioner serving on the board of commissioners of the Florence Housing Authority as per state law shall not be appointed to a specific term of office, but shall serve until a new appointee is named at the mayor's discretion.” The council approved that motion by voice vote; the motion references state law but the specific statute was not cited in the record.
The council concluded the staff-report portion of the meeting and adjourned.
