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Council discusses dissolving Environmental & Sustainability Advisory Board and shifting work to staff
Summary
City staff recommended disbanding the citizen advisory board due to chronic low attendance and transitioning sustainability work into an internal staff committee focused on operational integration, data tracking and outreach.
City staff recommended at the Aug. 7 council meeting that the Environmental and Sustainability Advisory Board be dissolved and that its responsibilities be transferred to a staff‑led internal sustainability committee.
Miss Penley told council the advisory board had produced the city’s sustainability plan, a native plant palette and several pilot projects (solar picnic tables, a solar tree at Edible River Park) but had suffered…
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