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Commission delays minutes approval for edits; chair announces she will not run again
Summary
Commissioners asked staff to revise draft minutes for clarity and tone; director offered to postpone approval to the next meeting. Chair Feinberg announced she will not seek another term as chair; nominations and turnover will occur in April.
Commissioners reviewed the draft minutes and requested editorial fixes to a paragraph about the tot‑lot theme, urging staff to change phrasing from an instruction that a theme should be 'avoided' to a neutral phrasing that the commission should 'consider' the historical context (Beach School named to honor a World War I veteran). Commissioner Varani urged grammar and spelling corrections and suggested replacing 'avoid' with 'consider.'
Staff (the transcriber and director) offered to postpone approval until the next meeting to allow revisions or to accept an amendment if commissioners provided replacement language. Chair Feinberg recommended moving approval to the next meeting unless there was a reason to approve tonight. Later in the meeting Feinberg announced she will not run for chair again; commissioners noted that there is no February meeting and that chair turnover will happen in April, with nomination procedures handled through the clerk's schedule.
Next steps: staff to correct the minutes' paragraph language and spelling/grammar, return the revised draft at the next meeting for formal approval, and the clerk will run the nomination process for the next chair.
