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Brentwood commissioners complete multi‑round ballots to staff 2040 advisory subcommittees, expand quality-of-life panel to nine
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Summary
After multi-round secret ballots, Brentwood commissioners appointed members to business and transportation subcommittees and voted to expand the quality-of-life subcommittee to nine members, naming nine appointees after successive rounds of voting.
Brentwood's Board of Commissioners filled subcommittees for the city's 2040 advisory committee after a multi-round, ranked ballot process that elected members for the business, transportation and quality-of-life panels.
The commission aimed to honor applicants' first-choice subcommittee selections where possible. Commissioners voted to keep the business and transportation subcommittees at six members each, then debated and changed the quality-of-life subcommittee from six to eight and, after further motion and second, to nine members.
"I'll move that we increase the size of the committee to 8 members," Commissioner Dunn said during debate; commissioners later voted to take the quality-of-life panel to nine. City management noted the consultant's initial recommendation aimed for a manageable overall advisory committee (roughly 18—'9 total), but commissioners said a slightly larger quality-of-life panel better reflected application volume and topic scope.
Commissioners used successive ballot rounds to advance candidates who met the stated threshold and then filled remaining slots by additional rounds of voting. Staff read tallies aloud and confirmed selections. The business subcommittee selections included William Baylor, John Dollarhide, Randy Gibson, Robert Eichard, Michael Kaplan and Kelly Tamburino. The transportation subcommittee selections included James Bridal Calcote, James Davis, Chad Grout, William Patrick Hudson, Andrew Rittler and Brad Waldschmidt. The quality-of-life subcommittee ultimately selected Jonathan Derrick Bell, Chris Cummins, J. Todd Feathering, Mohana B. Karlakar, Jurong Long, Jake Martin, Scott Matlock, Lauren Sebel and Lindsey Strifler Rivera.
Mayor Nelson Andrews praised the effort and volunteer response: the commission noted more than 70 applicants applied for the advisory committee and encouraged residents who were not selected to remain engaged in focus groups and surveys supporting the 2040 planning process.
Next steps: staff will notify appointed members and inform applicants who were not selected; the advisory committees are expected to begin convening according to the 2040 plan timeline and the commission retains authority to adopt the final plan.
