Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Planning Commission topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Council adopts planning commission term limits (ordinance 26-15)
Summary
Council adopted ordinance 26-15 establishing three-year staggered terms for planning commissioners, clarifying alternates' one-year terms and limiting no more than two member expirations in a single year.
Council considered ordinance 26-15 to set term limits for appointed members of the planning commission. Staff and council members discussed language to establish three-year terms staggered so that two members’ terms expire each year; alternates were described as serving one-year terms.
Council member (S7) read the proposed language aloud and emphasized the staggering mechanism: “term limits of appointed members of the planning commission shall be 3 years ... shall expire in January of the 3rd year following appointment and until the respective successors shall have been appointed ... provided that terms shall be assigned and adjusted as necessary to maintain staggered appointments so that the terms of 2 members expire each year.” After clarifying that the ordinance would not remove current members, the council approved adoption with the explicit change that no more than two members’ terms would expire in one year.
The ordinance sets a structural change to planning commission appointments intended to regularize turnover and maintain continuity in the commission’s composition.
