TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
Bruce Moe, City Manager
FROM:
Liza Tamura, City Clerk
George Gabriel, Management Analyst
SUBJECT:Title
Accept Resignation from Cultural Arts Commissioner Prigozhin, Declare Vacant Cultural Arts Commission Seat No. 4 (Prigozhin), and Direct the City Clerk to Return with a List of Interested Applicants (City Clerk Tamura).
ACCEPT RESIGNATION AND DECLARE VACANCY
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Recommended Action
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council:
1. Accept the resignation from Cultural Arts Commissioner Leon Prigozhin;
2. Declare Vacant Cultural Arts Commission Seat No. 4 (Prigozhin);
3. Direct the City Clerk to return to the July 3, 2018 City Council meeting with a list of interested applicants that participated in the 2018 annual boards and commissions interview and appointment process.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
There are no fiscal implications associated with the recommended action.
BACKGROUND:
The Cultural Arts Commission consists of six members (one representative with art experience, four at-large members and one student representative) and meets on the third Monday of each month. The Commission is responsible for developing a Cultural Arts Master Plan for the City, encouraging and supporting art education programs in the community and schools, participating in the Arts in Public Places selection process and assisting in the Art in Civic Spaces Program.
On May 25, 2018, Commissioner Prigozhin tendered his letter of resignation to the City; effectively leaving Cultural Arts Commission, Seat No. 4, Member-at-Large seat, vacant.
DISCUSSION:
Per Ordinance No. 1975, if a vacant seat has 18 months or less remaining in its term, the new member would complete the original term and automatically be re-appointed to a three-year term.
Commissioner Prigozhin's term was scheduled to expire on May 31, 2019. As such, the new member appointed to t...
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