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Committee unanimously recommends Katie Bloom to city commission for appointment
Summary
After a two-minute presentation and Q&A, the committee moved, seconded and voted by voice to recommend Katie Bloom's application to the city commission; the chair noted the commission historically accepts committee recommendations and will make the formal appointment.
Katie Bloom introduced herself to the committee and outlined her environmental background, including leading a lake-restoration task force in South Dakota, starting a sanitation-sewer district to hook up homes to sewer service, volunteer work on Asylum Lake and native-plant projects, and prior experience organizing recycling efforts.
Members asked standard suitability questions (residency in the city, ability to attend the third-Wednesday meetings, and top environmental priorities). Katie said she lives in the city of Kalamazoo, is available at the stated meeting times, and expressed particular interest in native species, urban landscape, trees and watershed work.
A member moved to recommend her application; another member seconded. The committee voted by voice ('Aye') to forward the recommendation to the city commission. The chair explained that the committee's recommendation is advisory and that the city commission performs the formal appointment, but noted the commission has historically accepted the committee's recommendations.
Why it matters: the vote advances a new member to the city-commission appointment process and fills an advisory-seat vacancy. The transcript records the motion, second and voice approval but does not include a roll-call tally.
