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Council hears confirmation interviews for housing, law, finance, planning, HR and fire leaders
Summary
The committee conducted confirmation interviews with nominees and incumbents, including Julie Schneider (Housing & Revitalization), Conrad Mallett (Corporation Counsel), Tanya Stadamer (CFO), Alexa Bush (Planning), Denise Starr (HR) and Executive Fire Commissioner Sims, focusing on housing production, blight enforcement, AI pilots for FOIA, budget pressures and workforce recruitment.
The Internal Operations Committee conducted a series of confirmation interviews for senior city officials, asking nominees to outline priorities, recent accomplishments and plans for the coming term.
Julie Schneider, nominated as director of the Housing & Revitalization Department, described roughly 2,000–3,000 affordable units completed since 2015 and another ~2,000 under construction. Schneider said HRD’s down-payment assistance phases helped over 800 first-time homebuyers and pointed to a 2023 expansion of the city’s payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) program designed to support workforce housing.
Corporation Counsel Conrad Mallett said the law department has taken a more aggressive posture on blight enforcement, stood up a new criminal division to prosecute certain…
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