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Montecito board adopts interim policies and procedures, will refine over six weeks
Summary
After a consultant presentation, the board voted to adopt a draft policies-and-procedures manual on an interim basis and directed staff to gather director comments for changes to be returned in June.
The Montecito Sanitary District voted on May 13 to adopt a draft set of board policies and procedures on an interim basis and to accept director comments over the next six weeks. The board engaged consultant Jacob Green and Associates to update the document and to return a revised draft by June 24.
Steve Mermel, the consultant leading the project, said the draft draws on prior subcommittee work and CSDA model language and was intended to be an improvement over the district's 2021 policies. "We consider that interim," Mermel said during his presentation. Directors debated whether adopting today would make later changes harder and several asked for a short comment window; others argued the board needed better governance language in place now.
The motion to adopt the draft on an interim basis included direction that board members send comments to the general manager by May 29; staff and the consultant will produce a revised draft for the board's June meeting. Directors said the adoption is intended to create clearer committee charters, Brown Act compliance language and a process for future policy amendments.
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