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Councilors recommend Berman, Updike and Fox for Planning Commission; Stringer named citizen advisor pick

City of Newport City Council · December 9, 2025
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Summary

City councilors recommended that the mayor appoint Bob Berman and John Updike to full terms on the Newport Planning Commission and to fill a one-year vacancy with Mr. Fox; they also recommended Christy Stringer for a nonvoting citizen-advisor role, with formal appointments to be taken up at a January council meeting.

Newport city councilors on Jan. 11 recommended that the mayor appoint two incumbent commissioners and one replacement to the Planning Commission and designate an additional applicant as a nonvoting citizen advisor.

The councilors said they would forward recommendations that Bob Berman and John Updike be reappointed to the Planning Commission, that the mayor appoint Mr. Fox to the seat created by a resignation, and that Christy Stringer be named to the commission's citizen-advisor (nonvoting) role. A councilor moved the recommendation, another seconded it and the body approved it by voice vote for placement on the January council agenda.

The recommendations come after interviews with four applicants in…

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