TO: Mayor Collins and Town Council Members
FROM: Kevin Burke, Town Manager
Duncan Miller, Town Clerk
DATE: September 24, 2015
DEPARTMENT: Town Manager
Staff Contact Duncan Miller, 480-348-3610
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AGENDA TITLE:
Title
Approve Appointments to Various Town Committees, Commissions, and Boards
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Agenda Item Relates to Mission/Vision:
- Provides high quality public services to a community which values limited government
- Enhance the community's unique character.
Strategic Initiative:
Council Goals or Other Policies / Statutory Requirements:
- Encourage volunteer opportunities
- Town Code ?2-5
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Approve the appointments to committees, commissions, and boards as listed in the Action Report.
Background
SUMMARY STATEMENT:
Reappointment Process
The terms of several members of Town boards, committees, commissions, and all Municipal Court Judges will expire in October. In accordance with Town practice, committee members whose terms expire this year were asked to provide written statements expressing their interest in being reappointed. All currently serving members did so and their names are hereby forwarded to the mayor for reappointment and the Council for confirmation.
Additionally, the Town Council voted in June to separate the Personnel Appeals Board and Public Safety Personnel Retirement Board. This action resulted in creating three new vacant positions. There is a vacancy on the Municipal Property Corporation because a board member moved out of town.
To fill the vacancies, the Town ran notices in the Paradise Valley Independent Newspaper and on the website seeking residents interesting in volunteering. Eight applications were received by the deadline for the four vacancies. Mayor Collins interviewed the applicants on September 10 and made the appointments listed below.
Regarding judicial appointments, Presiding Judge J. Tyrrell Taber briefed the Town C...
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