DATE: August 18, 2026
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: City Clerk
SUBJECT: City Commissions: Review of Seven Reappointment Requests and Approval of Interview Process for August 25, 2026
RECOMMENDATION
That the City Council: 1) reviews one Clean and Green Commission, two Community Services Commission, one Library Commission , and three Personnel Commission reappointment requests; 2) reviews the annual report of Council’s appointed bodies including members’ attendance records, completion of required trainings, and overall performance; and 3) confirms the process for conducting the annual City commission interviews on August 2 5, 2026.
SUMMARY
The annual recruitment for City commissions was conducted from March 10, 2026 through July 31, 2026. There are currently nine vacancies across the commissions, two members not seeking reappointment, and seven requests for reappointment, as summarized in Table 1. A total of s ixty-nine applications were received by the submission deadline , and sixty-five applicants qualified for consideration. Attachment II provides the final list of qualified applicants and their stated service preference. A digital binder containing all qualified applications was made available to the City Council on August 7, 2026.
FISCAL IMPACT
There is no fiscal impact associated with this report.
BACKGROUND AND DISCUSSION
City s taff identified commission members with terms expiring in September 2 026 and contacted them to confirm their interest in continuing to serve. Table 1 provides a summary of current vacancies and reappointment requests across all meeting bodies, and Tables 2 through 6 present detailed in formation for each individual body. Attachment III provides additional detail by meeting body including demographic data reflecting current membership composition. This information is intended to inform the City Council of existing representation and encourage consideration of candidates from sectors or groups that are not yet represented.
TABLE 1: SUMMARY BY COMMISSION:
Body Vacant
Seat(s)
Seeking
Reappointment
Not Seeking
Reappointment Total
CGC 5 1 0 6
CSC 1 2 1 4
LC 3 1 0 4
Pers C 0 3 0 3
PC 0 0 1 1
TOTAL 9 7 2 18
TABLE 2: CLEAN AND GREEN COMMISSION (CGC):
#
NAME
Date
Appointed
Term
Expires
Resigned
Seeking
Reappointment
1 Thomas Ford 9/2/25 9/30/28 2/26/26
2 Sergey Melnikov 9/12/23 9/30/27 9/2/25
3 Melissa Milleman 9/15/20 9/30/27 4/20/26
4 Jessica Stanley 9/10/19 9/30/27 11/19/24
5 Chandrakala Sirmdas 9/20/23 9/30/28 6/25/26
6 Kyle McCray 9/2/25 9/30/26 x
7 Blytha Bowers 4/15/08 9/30/28
8 Celia Ching Chung 9/12/23 9/30/27
9 Gwenda Dossey 9/12/23 9/30/28
10 Tom Ferreira 9/21/21 9/30/28
11 Sandra Frost 9/12/23 9/30/27
12 Michael Garcia-Picazo 9/2/25 9/30/27
13 Christian Loza 9/2/25 9/30/27
14 Shingo Nagae 9/21/21 9/30/27
15 Mary Otegbade 9/2/25 9/30/28
16 Herminia Ruiz 9/2/25 9/30/28
17 George Villamil 9/12/23 9/30/27
18 Peyton Waterman 9/2/25 9/30/27
TABLE 3: COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMISSION (CSC):
TABLE 4: LIBRARY COMMISSION (LC):
# NAME Date
Appointed
Term
Expires
Not Seeking
Re-
appointment
Seeking Re-
appointment
Resigned
1 Guadalupe Angulo 9/12/23 9/30/26 x
2 Hoang Dao 9/12/23 9/30/26 x
3 Jesse Gunn 9/21/23 9/30/26 x
4 Barbara Maderios 9/12/25 9/30/29 8/11/2026
5 Yoshiko Kimura 9/18/23 9/30/27
6 Daisy Maxion 9/12/23 9/30/29
7 Jagdeep Singh 9/20/22 9/30/29
8 Jayendra Singh 9/2/25 9/30/28
9 Elvin Sledge 9/2/25 9/30/27
10 Lenita Wheeler 9/20/22 9/30/29
11 Calvin Wong 9/12/23 9/30/29
#
NAME Date
Appointed
Term
Expires
Resigned Seeking
Reappointment
1 Marhya Kelsch 1/23/24 9/30/27 5/6/25
2 Shonda Goward 9/21/21 9/30/26 6/30/25
3 Dominique Dozier 9/12/23 9/30/27 9/9/25
4 Shareen Purcell 3/22/22 9/30/26 x
5 Jackqueline Felix 9/2/25 9/30/29
6 Amalia Navarro 9/15/20 9/30/28
7 Crystal Porter 9/12/23 9/30/27
8 Angela Ramos 9/2/25 9/30/29
9 Lucretia Whitener 9/30/25 9/30/29
TABLE 5: PERSONNEL COMMISSION (PERC):
TABLE 6: PLANNING COMMISSION (PC):
Interview Process for August 25, 2026
On August 7, 2026, staff provided Council Members with a digital binder containing a list of applicants, applicants’ preferences by meeting body, completed applications, demographic information, and maps comparing the geographic distribution of current members and applicants. The materials were provided in advance to allow Council Members sufficient time to review the applications and complete the pre-screenning process, which has been in place to identify candidates to be interviewed.
As part of the pre -screening process, each Council Member will complete the selection form (Attachment IV) and submit it by email to the City Clerk by Wedneday, August 19, 2026.
Applicants who receive three or more points will be invited to interview with the City Council on August 25, 2026.
#
NAME
Date
Appointed
Term Expires
Seeking
Reappointment
1 Bonnie Tendencia 9/2/25 9/30/26 x
2 Edward Moore 9/2/25 9/30/26 x
3 Tiega-Noel Varlack 9/2/25 9/30/26 x
4 Amarilis Diaz 11/18/25 9/30/27
5 Sergey Melinikov 9/12/23 9/30/27
6 Linda Gruel Neff 9/17/24 9/30/27
7 Rebecca Parr 9/17/24 9/30/28
# NAME Date
Appointed
Term
Expires
Not Seeking
Reappointment
Seeking
Reappointment
1 Ron A Meyers 12/12/23 9/30/26 x
2 Briggitte Lowe 9/21/21 9/30/26 x
3 Vasko Yorgov 9/2/25 9/30/26 x
4 Karla Goodbody 1/24/23 9/30/27
5 Jeffrey Haman 9/17/24 9/30/28
6 Anika Hardy 1/24/23 9/30/27
7 Robert Stevens 9/10/19 9/30/27
STRATEGIC ROADMAP
This agenda item is a routine operational item and does not relate to any of the projects outlined in the Council’s Strategic Roadmap.
PUBLIC CONTACT
Information about the annual recruitment was disseminated through a variety of channels.
Table 7 below provides a summary of the outreach efforts completed to date.
TABLE 7: OUTREACH SUMMARY:
2026 Outreach Efforts
Date
Attendance/Reach
City Newsletter - The Stack- March 3/10/2026 46,289 recipients City Newsletter - The Stack - April 4/14/2026 45,652 recipients City Newsletter - The Stack Extra 7/13/2026 44,219 recipients Annual Earth Day Citywide Clean-Up Event
and Community Fair 4/25/2026 Over 300 attendees
Cinco de Mayo 41st Annual – Festival & Car
Show 5/2/2026 Over 7,000 attendees
All America Festival 6/27/2026 Over 300 attendees
Hayward Water System and Excise Tax
Accounts (electronic copy of the flyer with
their bill)
Mid April through end
of July 70,096 accounts
Hayward Water System and Excise Tax
Accounts (hard copy of the flyer with their bill
to those requeting mail delivery only)
Mid April through end
of July 35,451 out of 70,096 accounts
Downtown Hayward Street Parties 6/18/26 Approimately 8,000 attendees Downtown Hayward Street Parties 7/16/26 Over 18,000 attendees Letters to Faith-Based Organizations 6/10/2026 44 packets Social Media: Facebook 3/13/2026-7/31/2026 13,277 impressions Social Media: Twitter 3/13/2026-7/31/2026 1,523 impressions Social Media: Instagram 3/13/2026-7/31/2026 6,223 impressions Social Media: LinkedIn 3/13/2026-7/31/2026 2,602 impressions
NEXT STEPS
If the City Council approves the interview selection process, applicants will be invited to participate in interviews at a special Council meeting on August 25, 2026.
Prepared and Recommended by: Miriam Lens, City Clerk
Approved by:
_______________________________
Jenniffer Ott, City Manager