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Board approves appointments to Community Budget Advisory Committees
Summary
The Multnomah County Board of Commissioners approved R1, appointing members to Community Budget Advisory Committees after a presentation from the Office of Community Involvement about recruitment and process improvements.
Multnomah County commissioners on Wednesday approved appointments to multiple Community Budget Advisory Committees (CBACs), advancing a package of seats intended to improve demographic and geographic representation on advisory bodies that inform the county budgeting process.
The appointments were approved by roll call after Director Amara Perez of the Office of Community Involvement described a multi-step implementation plan to increase recruitment, collect demographic data, and strengthen onboarding and retention for advisory committees.
Perez told the board OCI has formed a work group to produce a policy and procedure guidebook, is adopting a volunteer-management system (Better Impact) to centralize participant data,…
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