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Multnomah County approves community budget advisory committee appointments; OCI outlines recruitment and data plan
Summary
The Multnomah County Board on Feb. 20 approved appointments to community budget advisory committees and heard a briefing from the Office of Community Involvement on steps to improve committee recruitment, representation tracking and retention, including a move to a centralized volunteer-management system.
The Multnomah County Board of Commissioners on Feb. 20 approved R1, the appointments to the county's community budget advisory committees, after the Office of Community Involvement outlined plans to increase recruitment, track demographic representation and monitor attendance.
Amada Perez, director of the Office of Community Involvement, told the board OCI has "already formed a work group with CBAC coordinators to develop a policy and procedure guidebook," and said the office will implement procedural and programmatic changes to follow recently adopted code updates.
The appointments were moved by Commissioner Singleton and seconded by Commissioner Joan Dixon. In a roll-call vote Commissioners Moyer, Singleton, Brim Edwards, Jones Dixon and Chair Vega Peterson voted yes; the motion carried and the appointments were approved.
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