DATE: January 21, 2025
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: City Manager
SUBJECT: Adopt a Resolution Ratifying Updates to the Mayor’s Council Appointments List
RECOMMENDATION
That Council a dopts a resolution (Attachment II) ratifying updates to the Council Appointments List (Attachment III).
SUMMARY
On December 1 0, 202 4, Council adopted a resolution acknowledging the receipt of and declaring the results of the City Council Election for four (4) of the City’s Council Members. As is customary after an election year, Mayor Salinas reviewed the Council Appointments List and has put forth the attached adjustments. Attachment III shows the full list of appointments with the adjustments highlighted in yellow . Per the Council Handbook, staff is seeking Council ratification of the Council Appointments List by passing the attached resolution (Attachment II).
DISCUSSION
The Council Handbook states the following about the process for Council Appointments, which includes the City Council considering and ratifying the Mayor’s List via a Consent item:
“It shall be the prerogative of the Mayor, taking into consideration relative length of Council service, individual Council Member preference and equivalency, to assign individual Council Members to these various committees. Normally appointments are for a two-year period but may be renewed at the Mayor's discretion where Council Members have particular experience or expertise with respect to the business of a particular committee.
Upon the Mayor’s selection, the City Council will consider ratification of the Mayor’s Council Appointments List via a Consent item. If terms coincide with the Mayor’s appointments, the item will also include resolutions appointing members Alameda County Abatement District Board of Trustees and the Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency and the San Francisco Bay Area Regional Water System Financing Authority Boards of Directors.”
On December 10, 2024, Council adopted a resolution acknowledging the receipt of and declaring the results of the City Council Election for four (4) of the City’s Council Members. As is customary after an election year, Mayor Salinas has put forth the attached adjustments to the Council Appointments List (Attachment III).
FISCAL IMPACT
There is no fiscal impact as a result of this action.
Prepared by: Kris Bondoc, Executive Assistant to the Mayor & Council
Approved by:
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Dr. Ana M. Alvarez, City Manager