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Sunnyvale committee debates citizenship and residency requirements for boards and commissions
Summary
Committee members discussed whether certain city boards and commissions should require appointees to be registered voters (citizens) or allow noncitizen residents to serve, with planning, personnel and heritage commissions highlighted for closer scrutiny.
Committee members spent substantial time on Article 10 — appointive boards and commissions — discussing whether some commissions should require appointees to be registered voters (citizens) while others accept noncitizen residents as advisory members.
Member Olofsson said commissions that exercise quasi-judicial powers warrant stronger residency or voter-registration requirements: "The Planning Commission is the only…
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