Staff Report - Confirmation of Board and Commission Appointments — Sacramento City Council, January 9, 2024

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File ID: 2024-00006 1/9/2024 Consent Item 17.

Confirmation of Board and Commission Appointments
File ID: 2024-00006
Location: Citywide
Recommendation: Pass a Motion confirming the following board and commission appointments: 1) Animal Care Services Citizens Advisory Committee: Leah Morris - Seat F and Kathleen Garcia - Seat G; 2) Ann Land and Bertha Henschel Memorial Funds Commission: Catherine Ruhl - Seat E and Talbott Smith - Seat H; 3) Civil Service Board: Gwynnae Byrd - Seat A; 4) Housing Code Advisory and Appeals Board: George Antablian, Jr. - Seat C; 5) Planning and Design Commission: Robert Blunt - Seat J; 6) Sacramento Ethics Commission: Alan LoFaso - Seat A, Nicole Velasquez - Seat C, and Annette Emery - Seat E; 7) Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Commission: Emmanuel Amanfor - Seat B and Andres Ramos - Seat D; 8) Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito and Vector Control District: Raymond LaTorre - Seat A; 9) Sacramento Youth Commission: Ziqi Lin - Seat H.

Contact: Mindy Cuppy, MMC, City Clerk, (916) 808-5442, [email protected]; Wendy Klock-Johnson, MMC, Chief Assistant City Clerk, (916) 808-7509, wklock- [email protected], Office of the City Clerk
Presenter: None.

Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
Description/Analysis
Issue Detail: As required by City Charter section 230, board and commission appointments made by the Mayor with the concurrence of the City Council.

Commission Appointee Seat Term Dates Term Type Recommended By
Animal Care Services
Citizens Advisory
Committee
Leah Morris F 01/01/2024-
12/31/2026
Full Personnel and
Public Employees
Committee
(P&PE)
Animal Care Services
Citizens Advisory
Committee
Kathleen Garcia G 01/01/2024-
01/01/2027
Full P&PE
Ann Land and Bertha
Henschel Memorial
Funds Commission
Catherine Ruhl E 01/01/2024-
01/01/2030
Full P&PE
Ann Land and Bertha
Henschel Memorial
Funds Commission
Talbott Smith H 01/01/2024-
01/01/2030
Full P&PE
Civil Service Board Gwynnae Byrd A 01/01/2024-
01/01/2029
Full P&PE
Housing Code
Advisory and Appeals
Board
George
Antablian, Jr.

C 01/09/2024-
12/31/2028
Full P&PE
Planning and Design
Commission
Robert Blunt J 01/01/2024-
12/31/2027
Full P&PE
Sacramento Ethics
Commission
Alan LoFaso A 01/01/2024-
01/01/2028
Full P&PE
Sacramento Ethics
Commission
Nicole Velasquez C 01/01/2024-
01/01/2028
Full P&PE
Sacramento Ethics
Commission
Annette Emery E 01/01/2024-
01/01/2028
Full P&PE
Sacramento Housing
and Redevelopment
Commission
Emmanuel
Amanfor
B 01/01/2024-
01/01/2028
Full P&PE
Sacramento Housing
and Redevelopment
Commission
Andres Ramos D 01/01/2024-
01/01/2028
Full P&PE
Sacramento-Yolo
Mosquito and Vector
Control District
Raymond
LaTorre
A 01/01/2024-
12/31/2025
Full P&PE
Sacramento Youth
Commission
Ziqi Lin H 01/01/2023-
12/31/2024
Partial Councilmember
Valenzuela,
District 4

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File ID: 2024-00006 1/9/2024 Consent Item 17.

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File ID: 2024-00006 1/9/2024 Consent Item 17.

Economic Impacts: None.

Environmental Considerations: California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA): This action is not a project that is subject to CEQA because it is an organizational or administrative activity that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment. (CEQA Guidelines §15378(b)(5)).

Sustainability: None.

Commission/Committee Action: None.

Rationale for Recommendation: The Personnel and Public Employees Committee has nominated for appointment a vacancy identified on several of the Boards and Commissions. After consideration, candidates were nominated, which now require Council confirmation. Confirmation of appointment by the City Council finalizes the process.

Financial Considerations: None.

Local Business Enterprise (LBE): None.

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