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Torrance council orders study to give city clerk more authority, examine combining commissions
Summary
After hours of public comment and council questions, the Torrance City Council unanimously directed staff to produce a report on expanding the City Clerk’s role in managing commissions, possible commission consolidations, attendance and training enforcement, and projected savings or costs.
Mayor Chen and the council heard a staff report from City Clerk Rebecca Poyer proposing multiple options to change how the city’s advisory commissions operate, including combining the Planning and Historic Preservation commissions, consolidating library/cultural arts/parks and recreation into a community services commission, and adjusting meeting frequency for several commissions.
The clerk said the recommended changes respond to staffing burdens and a recent state training mandate that affects certain commissions. “Combining commissions would increase the efficiency and effectiveness of both the commissions and the departments,” Poyer said, and recommended any changes take effect on…
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