Nance Matson
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Submitted At: 5:40pm 10-17-22
Thank you for your attention to this topic.
I will say I was surprised by the staff report on this item, especially as (1) the council had voted at their last meeting to convert OSAC into the new commission that includes Open Space, Bikes (or active transportation, even better) and Sustainability; and (2) it appeared to me that the next step was to have OSAC discuss modification to the resolution and flush out the details on the work plan so they could go back to council for their review and decision making. I heard from the city manager after the last council meeting that he was going to recommend the council appoint two council members to an ad-hoc committee to come to OSAC's next meeting to work with us. That made sense to me, but I don't see that recommendation included in the staff report.
Given the "it's complicated", it sounds like having the council discuss items 1-8 is good. But items 9-17 are work plan questions, so I would expect they would fall into OSAC's court to flush out what we propose on each item, including roles and then bring the work plan back to council to discuss further. I'm assuming we would also consider be adding active transportation and sustainability items to the work plan. I am also a bit confused by the "who decides" sentence at the bottom of the staff report - does that refer to the 17 questions there or to something else?