Here's an update, from the horse's mouth, about how the Comp Plan Board selection process will proceed. Reading between the lines, it sounds like if you represent, ahem, a group/location/constituency that is likely to be under-represented among the applicants, it's definitely still worth getting a letter of intent and a resume in.
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August 20, 2007
To: Council Colleagues
Fr: Richard Conti, President Pro Tem
Re: Comprehensive Plan Board selection process
Earlier this year the Council adopted Resolution 23.31.07R establishing a Comprehensive Plan Board and charging it with the responsibility of developing a comprehensive plan for the City of Albany.
In response to our “Call for Nominations” over 70 individuals have expressed interest in appointment to one of the 20 available seats on the Board. Ten of these appointments are by the Council upon recommendation of the Mayor.
The interview and selection process for appointment to the Board will be lengthy. The process needs to be co-ordinated with the executive branch and we need to select and recommend the appointment of a Board which is balanced in several ways. In order to accomplish this, candidates will be interviewed by a joint Council-Executive committee comprised of the following individuals (listed alphabetically):
Council
Richard Conti, President Pro Tem
Dan Herring, Chair Planning Committee
Carolyn McLaughlin, Majority Leader
Shawn Morris, President
Executive
Phil Calderone, Deputy Mayor
Joe Cavazos, Commissioner of Admin. Services
Megan Daley, Deputy Commissioner of Planning
Mike Yevoli, Commissioner of Planning
The interview committee will review the pool of applicants who have submitted their resumes and seek to develop consensus-based recommendations. As we move forward through this process we may need to do additional outreach to assure we have a representative pool of applicants, therefore the opportunity to submit additional names remains open. This process will be a joint process (not separate ones) which hopefully can be completed by the Fall with formal Council appointment of the remaining members of the Board.
I appreciate your patience during this process, if you have any questions please feel free to contact me.
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