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Motion to approve Commissioners Hobson-Coard as Vice Chairperson. (Devin Stenhouse, DEI Officer)
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RECOMMENDATION
It is recommended commissioners vote to approve Commissioners Hobson-Coard as Vice Chairperson. (Devin Stenhouse, DEI Officer)
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BACKGROUND/DISCUSSION
At the January 22, 2024, commission meeting, current chairperson, Arnel Junio, was voted as chairperson and former commissioner, Alan Perez, was voted as vice chairperson. Prior to this meeting, current commissioner, Krystle Cansino, served as chairperson since the commission's initial meeting on June 20, 2022. Because the Commission's bylaws were not finalized until July 17, 2023, Commissioner Cansino served as Chair for just over one and a half years. According to the bylaws as well as the City's Boards and Commissions Handbook, commission Chair and Vice Chairpersons should be decided at the first meeting of the calendar year, thus serving one-year terms each. On July 2, 2024, Vice Chai Perez, officially resigned from the commission due to him moving out of the area. Thus, the current vice chairperson position is vacant.
At the January 22, 2024, commissioners developed a schedule that commissioners could follow so chairs and vice chairs are no longer elected but rotated. This is the same approach other commissions use to avoid an electoral process which requires "choosing one over the other". Commissioners serve four-year terms. So ideally, a commissioner would serve one to two years, serve as vice chairperson in their second or third year, then rotate to chairperson in their third or fourth year. According to this schedule, Commissioners Hobson-Coard and Yee would be the only two eligible commissioners for the vice chairperson position. At the January 22, 2024, meeting, it was also decided that commissioner end-term dates should be a factor when deciding the Vice Chairperson (and chairperson) role. Whichever commissioner has the later end-term should fill the position considering ...
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