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Board/Commission Appointment(s) - Board of Public Utilities.
Recommended Action
I nominate Stephen McLin (R), Eric Stromberg (R) and Cornell Wright (R) to fill 1 vacancy on the Board of Public Utilities and move that Council appoint 1 nominee to the vacant position as follows:
By roll call vote, Councilors vote for 1 nominee and the nominee with the highest vote total of four or more be appointed to fill the term beginning on July 1st, 2018 and ending on June 30th, 2023.
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The purpose of this item is to fill 1 vacancy on the Board of Public Utilities.
This vacancy represents an expired term for Stephen McLin, which will end on June 30, 2018. Mr. McLin replaced Mr. Stephen Tenbrink, who resigned from the Board prior to his term expiration. Mr. McLin served one partial four-year term (greater than half of a term) on the Board of Public Utilities from July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2018. He is eligible for re-appointment.
This 5 member board has 5 year terms beginning July 1st and ending June 30th. It is currently composed as follows: Paul Frederickson, Jeff Johnson, Stephen McLin, Kathleen Taylor and Carrie Walker .
Appointing any of the nominees will not violate the County Charter restriction concerning political party majorities on Boards and Commissions. Given the current makeup of the Board of Public Utilities, no democrats were interviewed by the interview committee or submitted to Council for consideration, as appointing a democrat would violate the County Charter concerning political party majorities.
All nominee party affiliations have been verified with the Clerk's Office.
The applicants for these positions are:
Stephen McLin (R)
Eric Stromberg (R)
Cornell Wright (R)
Party affiliations are noted as [D] Democrat, [R] Republican, [I] Independent, [G] Green, [L] Libertarian, [DTS] Declined to State, and [N] Not Registered to Vote.
All of the applicants were interviewed by an interview committee on April 24th, 201...
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