MEMORANDUM

TO:                  Mayor and Town Council

FROM:            Julie McClintock, Chair

                        Horace Williams Citizens Committee

SUBJECT:      Committee Appointments

DATE:                        December 16, 2005

At its December 15, 2005 meeting members of the Horace Williams Citizens Committee considered applications for the vacant Neighborhood Representative member seat and two vacancies for Citizen’s with Special Expertise.  The Committee’s charge states that Citizen’s with Special Expertise are defined as those with expertise in any of the following topic areas: water/sewer; hazardous waste; stormwater; transportation modes, including transit, bicycle, pedestrian, and auto; housing; schools; natural area protection; fiscal equity.

The Committee voted to recommend all four of the current applications to the Town Council and let the Council decide which functions the applicants would represent.

The Committee expressed the sentiment that the expert and neighborhood categories are awkward and should be interpreted broadly.

Vote    11 - 1

Aye:    Ruby Sinreich, Julie McClintock, Randy Kabrick, Alex Ashton, Michael Collins, Buck Branson, Al Burk, Laurin Easthom, Barbara Driscoll, Diane VandenBroek and Lind Convissor

Nay: Joe Capowski

Dissenting View:  Joe Capowski considered that the Committee should only recommend three applicants or rank the applicants

Prepared by:                Julie McClintock, Chair, Horace Williams Citizens Committee

            Gordon Sutherland, Principal Planner