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Residents urge Dunedin to preserve Hammock Advisory Committee as city outlines committee consolidation plan
Summary
Residents voiced concern at the March 5 commission meeting about a staff proposal to consolidate some advisory committees, asking the city to fill vacant Hammock Advisory Committee seats now and to adopt measurable success metrics for any consolidation; city manager said consolidations are a work plan and no resolutions have been drafted or adopted.
Dozens of residents urged the Dunedin City Commission on March 5 to preserve focused volunteer oversight for Hammock Park as city staff described a plan to consolidate some advisory committees.
Several residents, including Matt Horvath and representatives of Friends of the Hammock, said the Hammock Advisory Committee has vacant seats and a ready volunteer pipeline and asked the commission to halt any immediate merger. "Each of you have a petition in front of you with a 190 signatures, 65 of which are people who are volunteering that wanna be on the committee," Matt Horvath told the commission. Jefferson Cox read a letter from Carrie O’Brien, president of Friends of the Hammock, into the record urging adoption of an interim plan to…
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