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JEFFERSON COUNTY
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
To: Board of County Commissioners
Philip Morley, County Administrator
From: Patty Charnas, DCD Director
Date: March 20, 2017
Subject: Planning Commission District 1, 2, and 3 temporary re -appointments
STATEMENT OF ISSUE:
The nine -member Jefferson County Planning Commission has three positions that will expire
on March 17, 2017. They are Cynthia Koan of District 1, Matt Sircely of District 2, and Richard
Hull of District 3. The Department of Community Development (DCD) recommends that these
three members be reappointed for limited terms until the required open recruitment process is
fulfilled.
ANALYSIS
The Planning Commission by-laws specify that any vacancy must be advertised twice in the County's
paper of record to allow any member of the public to apply. DCD placed ads in the County's paper of
record and posted an announcement on the DCD web page about the process to apply for
appointment to the Planning Commission. DCD has similarly contacted each of the Planning
Commission members whose terms are expiring on March 17, 2017, and informed them of the
process to apply for reappointment should they be so interested. The process to both apply and/or
reapply uses the same volunteer application form. At the time of this writing, one Planning
Commission member whose term is expiring and two individual citizens have submitted paperwork
indicating their interest in being reappointed or appointed, respectively. If the Planning Commission
members terms were allowed to expire without any action by the Board to appoint or reappoint, the
Planning Commission would become and remain under -represented. So that sufficient time is
provided for applications to be submitted and processed and so that we may provide for continued
Planning Commission work until such a time that the Board takes formal action, it is requested that
the Board reappoint Ms. Koan, Mr. Sircely, and Mr. Hull to limited terms not to exceed June 30,
2017.
FISCAL IMPACT/COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS:
There is no fiscal impact to the County's General Fund for re -appointing of members to serve
on the Planning Commission (PC). There are minor costs for DCD to advertise the
positions. The 2017 DCD and PC Budgets are based on nine (9) PC members and these
appointees would serve as part of the group.
RECOMMENDATION:
Reappoint all three Planning Commission member representatives to limited terms not to exceed
June 30, 2017, or until new members are duly appointed.
REVIEWED BY:
Morley, Co ty A ministrator Date