Almost every week this is the "What's on the city council's plate this week" review. I don't cover everything, so if you want the full rundown, read the packet and agenda yourself.

Seriously boring packet this week, but in the interest of finding something to write about, I present the changes in the advisory boards for this year. Also, chad was talking earlier about these sorts of things, so just keeping that thread going.

Also, I'm going to make it a point to encourage folks to get on these boards when the city is recruiting later this year.

The council always seems to be tinkering with their advisory boards, but these changes seem straight forward enough.

From the staff report:

Ordinance #6499 established consistent committee requirements in the following areas, unless otherwise provided for in an individual committee’s enabling ordinance:

• Number of members: 11
• Term of Appointment: 3 years
• Residency: Majority of members must reside in Olympia or Olympia’s Urban Growth Area (UGA)
• Method of appointment: By affirmative action of a majority of the Olympia City Council, upon recommendation of the General Government Committee
• Filling of vacancies: Same as initial appointment
• Rules of Procedure: To be developed and approved by General Government Committee
• Annual Work Plan process: Same as in the past with approval by affirmative action of a majority of the Council following review and recommendation by the General Government Committee
• Staff Liaison Support: Defined for all committees.

 

Today’s recommended action updates the individual advisory committee enabling ordinances in OMC Chapters 2 and 18 to make them consistent with Ordinance #6499 and to remove and/or amend outdated references (e.g. “City Commission”).

The recommended Ordinance also pulls all of the individual committee Chapters in OMC Title 2 into a single Chapter – OMC 2.100, with the master ordinance adopted in December as the first section (Article) in OMC 2.100 followed by Articles for each committee. The Articles for each individual committee contain requirements that are specific to the committee and not provided in or are exceptions to the master ordinance.

• As recommended by General Government Committee, the following exceptions are incorporated in the attached Ordinance:
  
• Design Review Board – 9 members: 2 architects, 5 citizens-at-large, one Heritage Commission member, and one Planning Commission member.
  Lodging Tax Advisory Committee – 7 members. This change will add two (2) citizen-at-large members to the previous five (5) member committee.
  

Consistent with Ordinance #6499, the following changes are incorporated in the attached Ordinance:

• Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee: Removes all position designations (e.g. pedestrian representative, etc), except for the liaison from Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee.
• Design Review Board: Removes all position designations except for “architect.” The Heritage Commission and Planning Commission liaisons do not need to be approved by the City Council, since the Council approves their initial Heritage and Planning Commission appointments.
• Heritage Commission: Removes all position designations (e.g. historian, etc)
• Parks and Recreations Advisory Committee: Adds one member (from 10 to 11 members).
• Planning Commission: Eliminates one member (from 12 to 11 members). Reduces term from 4 to 3 years.