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Palo Alto committee backs handbook change to formalize annual meetings with boards, youth groups
Summary
The Policy & Services Committee recommended updating the Board & Commission handbook to let chairs or vice chairs meet annually with the mayor and city manager — typically through the Policy & Services committee — and set a default annual check-in for the Youth Council and a fall report for the Youth Climate Advisory Board.
The Policy & Services Committee on Jan. 14 recommended that the City Council update its Board & Commission handbook to make routine joint meetings — typically an annual check-in — a standard option for commission chairs and vice chairs.
Deputy City Manager Chantal Cotton Gaines told the committee the proposal grew from a 2024 council referral and that staff’s recommendation is to “update the handbook” so that chairs, vice chairs and staff liaisons can present work-plan updates to the council or to a standing committee. She said the approach aims to reduce the coordination…
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