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Mariposa County committee recommends cutting membership, approves scheduling flexibility and posting language
Summary
The Code Compliance Advisory Committee voted unanimously to recommend reducing membership from nine to five and approved an amendment allowing the planning director (or designee) and the committee chair to modify scheduled meetings by agreement; the committee also kept a Facebook posting requirement for public notice.
The Mariposa County Code Compliance Advisory Committee took two procedural votes at its Jan. 30 meeting: it voted to recommend that the Board of Supervisors reduce CCAC membership from nine to five and approved a bylaw amendment allowing the planning director (or designee) and the CCAC chair to modify the posted meeting schedule by agreement.
Why it matters: The committee’s recommendations will be forwarded to the Board of Supervisors, which must approve any change to committee membership or formal bylaws language. The scheduling modification aims to give staff and the chair limited flexibility to adjust regular meeting dates in response to workload or weather-related cancellations without repeatedly calling special meetings.
During discussion, committee members expressed the need for flexibility to accommodate staff workloads and weather cancellations and suggested making the planning director or their designee the official administrative contact for schedule modifications. One member noted the committee had been "really lax" in clearly recording decisions in prior reviews and urged clearer recordkeeping when staff integrates edits.
Outcome: The motion to recommend reducing the CCAC to five members was moved and seconded and passed with unanimous 'aye' votes. A separate motion to permit schedule modifications "by agreement of the planning director or designee and the chair" was also approved, and the committee voted to retain language requiring posting on the planning department Facebook page as one public-notice channel.
Next steps: Staff will prepare board items to carry the committee’s recommendations to the Board of Supervisors for formal adoption and will continue the AVA code work after Title 1 and legal clarifications are obtained.
Quote: "I would move that we recommend to the Board of Supervisors that the Board reduce the number of members of the Code Compliance Advisory Committee from 9 to 5," a member said prior to the unanimous vote.
What comes next: The committee’s recommendations will be packaged into board materials by planning staff for the Board of Supervisors’ consideration.
