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AGENDA TITLE: Vacancies on the Lodi East Side Improvement Committee
MEETING DATE: February 16.1994
PREPARED BY: City Clerk
RECOMMENDED ACTION: That the City Council acknowledge the two vacancies on the City of Lodi
East Side Improvement Committee and take no action.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: The City Clerk's office was informed by Virginia Snyder.
Chairperson of the Lodi East Side Improvement Committee. that
the following persons are no longer serving on the Committee:
East Side Improvement Committee
Becky Bailey, term expires March 1, 1995
Dick Sanborn, term expires March 1. 1996
The East Side Improvement Committee would like to down -size from 15 members to 9 members by
attrition. The Committee hopes to make this proposal to the City Council at its next regularly scheduled
meeting. Including the two mentioned above, there will now be three vacancies on this Committee.
it is requested that the City Council take no action in posting for these vacancies until it hears the
proposal of the Committee to down -size to nine members. If at that time the Council does not wish to
reduce the number of members. the City Clerk will post for these vacancies.
As a point of information. Virginia Snyder has also requested that we not past for these vacancies at this
time.
FUNDING: None required.
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TO: Lodi City Council
FROM: Virginia Snyder
RE: Request to downsize board of directors
Since we constantly look for ways to improve our operation, we respectfully request
consent to reduce the number of our Board of Directors from fifteen to nine.
We currently have twelve Board members who are all active and productive, and we
would regret losing any of them. Things change, however, and when vacancies do occur,
we would not plan on filling them until we've reached the target of nine positions. We will
await the council's decision before filling the three existing vacancies.
As you know, vacancies are time consuming and decrease our efficiency. Once we've
accomplished the desired reduction, we intend to do a better job of screening applicants in
the future before we recommend them to you for consideration.
We feel that a smaller number of directors would be Tess cumbersome and would not
affect our mission. We are now using board members for specific duties which could just
as easily be handled by volunteers from the community at large.
if you consent, we would like to:
I. Through attrition, reduce Board of Directors to nine members;
2. Retain President, First Vice -President and Second Vice -President as executive
committee;
3. Amend our By -Laws to reflect this change.
Any suggestions you may have will be much appreciated. We're still learning!
Sincerely,
Virginia Snyder