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Commission recommendation to let staff email commissioners’ personal addresses fails 5-1

5602224 · August 19, 2025
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Summary

A proposal asking City Council to change city code to allow communications to and from commissioners’ personal email addresses failed 5-1 after commissioners debated record-keeping and public-records concerns.

The Resource Management Commission considered and rejected a recommendation asking City Council to change city code so staff communications to volunteer board and commission members could be sent to both official city email addresses and personal email addresses.

Commissioner Silverstein introduced a near-copy resolution previously adopted by the Electric Utility Commission asking that staff be permitted to send communications to personal email addresses as well as city accounts. “I have a heck of a time remembering to look at my city email,” Silverstein said, citing difficulties with the city…

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