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Keizer retools committee-appointment process; separates internal committees from outside liaisons

2821663 · March 30, 2025
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Summary

Councilors agreed to revise how the city appoints members to internal boards and to clarify the role of council representatives to external organizations, asking staff to prepare language that preserves external bylaws and clarifies substitution and alternate requirements.

Keizer councilors spent significant time on Jan. 18 discussing who the city appoints to boards, commissions and external bodies, and how those appointments will be handled going forward.

The council asked staff to distinguish two categories in the rules: internal city boards and commissions (advisory groups created by the council) and external bodies (regional partnerships, intergovernmental boards and nonprofit organizations where Keizer is a member or signatory). For internal bodies the council will standardize the…

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