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Advisory board clarifies scope: educate city, not fundraise or advocate
Summary
The Mayor's Advisory Board for People with Disabilities reviewed its enabling resolution and reaffirmed that the board's role is to educate and provide recommendations to city council, not to fundraise or engage in advocacy outside that scope; the board moved marketing work to March when a staff member can present.
The Mayor's Advisory Board for People with Disabilities spent part of its Jan. 14 meeting reviewing the resolution that defines the board's role and agreed to emphasize education rather than advocacy.
"We cannot advocate, that is not, within the scope. Educate, yes. Advocate, no," Leslie Andrews, director of parks and recreation and the board liaison, told members while reviewing the resolution's purpose clause. Andrews said the…
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