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Philomath committee members agree to draft code changes to streamline standing committees
Summary
The City of Philomath Administrative & Finance Committee agreed to ask staff and two council members to draft proposed updates to committee code that would standardize purposes, membership rules and, where appropriate, merge or retire rarely used advisory bodies.
The City of Philomath Administrative & Finance Committee agreed July 8 to develop a draft package of code changes meant to bring committee language into line with current practice and to clarify how citizen advisory bodies are formed and appointed.
Committee members said the current set of standing and advisory committees in city code no longer matches what the council and staff actually do. "I think the way it comes across to me ... is very context dependent," Speaker 2 said, arguing that a concrete proposal would be easier to refine than trying to rewrite…
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