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Administrative Services Committee seeks uniform bylaws, regular reporting from boards and commissions
Summary
Members of the Administrative Services Committee discussed standardizing bylaws across city boards and commissions, creating a regular reporting schedule to council and possible term-limit considerations; staff will report back and the committee will ask council to consider a reporting cycle.
The Administrative Services Committee on March 27 debated whether Garland should standardize bylaws and increase regular reporting from its boards and commissions.
Committee Chair Margaret Luck said the review binder given to members contained a large volume of material and that members would likely need several meetings to digest it. Phil Urutia, a staff member, told the committee some boards want clearer short-term goals and more direct contact with the council members who appoint them.
"They were asking for some short term goals of what they wanted to accomplish as an…
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