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Council tables Downtown Vitality Committee after conflict-of-interest concerns from residents
Summary
Staff proposed creating a Downtown Vitality Committee and reported 11 applicants. Residents raised conflict-of-interest concerns about proposed membership; council voted to table the item for further review.
Staff proposed forming a Downtown Vitality Committee to gather ideas for downtown improvements and said 11 applicants had applied for the volunteer group. The staff presenter said the committee would have no spending authority and that staff's role would be to provide guardrails, not to chair the committee.
Residents, including Casey McCoy and Mark DeGraw, criticized the proposed list as concentrating influence and raised concerns about accountability and potential conflicts of interest with certain applicants. McCoy said: "Before approving this committee, I think the public deserves to know why we were giving additional authority to individuals who have not been held accountable in the past." After debate, a council member moved to table the item for reassessment; the motion to table carried, and the matter will return to council for further consideration.
