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West Miami commission moves to tie board seats to commission seats, to standardize appointments
Summary
Commissioners agreed to draft an ordinance to assign specific municipal board seats to individual commission seats, standardize terms and remove or clarify alternates; the item will return May 13 for formal consideration and appointments.
The West Miami City Commission opened a substantive discussion on April 29 about how the city appoints members to its advisory and quasi-judicial boards and directed staff to draft an ordinance to standardize seat-by-seat appointments.
Council leaders said the current system — in which many board appointments were commissionwide — created tracking problems and potential governance issues. The mayor proposed tying every seat on the planning and zoning board to a specific commission seat so each elected member can name a representative, a…
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