City Council Meeting: April 25,
2006
Agenda Item: 1 D
To: Mayor and City Council
From: Craig
Perkins, Director - Environmental and
Subject: Recommendation to Appoint New Members
to the Sustainable City Task Force
Recommended
Action
It is recommended that City Council appoint Laura Berland-Shane, Albert Rosen, and Carol Rosskam to fill three vacant positions on the Sustainable
City Task Force.
Executive
Summary
The Sustainable City
Task Force (SCTF) is an eleven-member advisory body to City Council on
sustainability issues. The SCTF members have
no specified terms; however, Council directed that the SCTF will operate for
five years, through June 2009. Three SCTF members recently resigned their
positions. The remaining SCTF members
have reviewed the applications to fill the vacant positions and have
recommended that Laura
Berland-Shane, Albert Rosen, and Carol Rosskam be appointed to fill the
vacancies. There are no financial or
budgetary impacts associated with adoption of the recommendation.
Discussion
Background
On October 28,
2003, City Council adopted a motion to create a Sustainable City Task Force to
serve as the principle advisory body to City Council on sustainability
issues. The motion specifies that the
SCTF should be comprised of 11 Council-appointed members to be chosen for their
expertise in various areas of sustainable policy, including the following:
Planning, Housing, Recreation and Parks, Social Services, Environmental Policy,
Education and Health Care. In addition,
composition of the group should ensure fair representation of the following
community stakeholder groups: Business, Labor, and Neighborhoods. On March 23, 2004,
City Council appointed eleven members to the SCTF.
Euripides
DeOliveira, Terry O’Day, and Roe Johnston have submitted their
resignations.
On January 9,
2006, the SCTF unanimously approved the following motion: The Sustainable City
Task Force recommends that City Council fill the vacant SCTF position(s) with a
person (or persons) with expertise and/or experience in one or more of the
following areas: housing, hospitality sector, environmental policy, business
owner, and strategic planning and management.
Recruitment Process
City staff posted announcements on
the City’s website and in local newspapers during the weeks of February 13 and
February 20, 2006 inviting applications to fill the vacant positions and eight
applications were received. The
applications were reviewed by the SCTF at their March 28, 2006 meeting. Based on that review, the SCTF unanimously
adopted a motion recommending that City Council appoint:
Laura Berland-Shane, a consultant with extensive experience in finance and strategic
planning and management. She is the
sponsor chair of the newly formed Sustainable Business Council LA whose charge
is to expand and strengthen “green business” practices for the business sector
in
Albert Rosen, a long-time owner and operator of apartment buildings in
Carol Rosskam, a regional planner with significant expertise in environmental policy
development for both public and non-profit agencies.
Staff
concurs with the SCTF recommendations.
Budget/Financial Impact
The recommendation presented in this report
does not have any budget or financial impact.
Prepared by:
Dean Kubani,
Acting Manager, Environmental Programs Division
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Craig Perkins Director
- Environmental and |
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P. City Manager |