ITEM TITLE:
Election of Planning & Zoning Commission Chair
SUBMITTED BY: Kate Huber, Planning Director
FISCAL NOTES:
Expenditure Required: N/A
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RECOMMENDATION:
Elect one commissioner to serve as the Chair of the Planning & Zoning Commission until our regularly scheduled next election.
SUMMARY STATEMENT:
Due to the resignation of our former chair, the current acting chair should request nominations by or volunteers from the commission.
If more than one volunteer or nomination is heard, commissioners should cast secret ballots and vote to select a single candidate.
Following identification of a single candidate by secret ballot vote- or- if only one volunteer or nomination is heard, a motion should be made as follows: “I move to approve election of (name of commissioner) to serve as Chair of the Planning & Zoning Commission.” The motion should have a second and then a vote taken.
Election of the new commission chair is effective immediately. The gavel should be handed to the newly elected chair who will facilitate the remainder of the commission meeting.
The person elected will serve until our next regularly scheduled election. The election of Chair and Chair Pro Tempore will occur annually, after new commissioners are sworn in. This is likely to occur at our first meeting in December 2021.