Personnel & Public Employees Committee Special Meeting - January 10, 2017
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Personnel & Public Employees Committee Special Meeting – January 10, 2017
The Personnel & Public Employees Committee (P&PE) held a special meeting on Tuesday, January 10, 2017, at 1:40 p.m. in the Sacramento City Hall Council Chamber. The committee approved the 2017 regular meeting schedule, conducted interviews for six board/commission vacancies, made nominations for several positions, and continued others to a future meeting. The meeting adjourned at 2:30 p.m.
Consent Calendar
- Item 1 – 2017 Regular Meeting Schedule: Approved unanimously with a friendly amendment to coordinate with the youth commissioner for an earlier meeting time. (Motion: Hansen, Second: Warren; all members voted yes.)
Public Comments & Testimony
- No members of the public spoke during the public comment period or on agenda items.
Discussion Items
- Item 2 – Administration, Investment, & Fiscal Management Board (Seat D): Interviewed incumbent David DeCamilla, who was the sole candidate. The committee nominated and forwarded his name to the mayor for appointment. (Motion: Warren, Second: Hansen; unanimous.)
- Item 3 – Ann Land and Bertha Henschel Memorial Funds Commission (Seat D): Interviewed two candidates (Alison Leary and Barbara Steinberg). Discussion continued to the next meeting with no nomination made. Staff requested historical award data for the committee’s review.
- Item 4 – Paratransit Inc. Board of Directors (Seat C): Interviewed incumbent Scott Leventon. Tiffany Fink, interim CEO of Paratransit, spoke in support. The committee nominated and forwarded Scott Leventon for reappointment. (Motion: Hansen, Second: Ashby; unanimous.)
- Item 5 – Sacramento Disabilities Advisory Commission (Seat F): Interviewed nine candidates due to the incumbent not reapplying. Neal Albritton, Program Specialist, praised all applicants. No nomination made; decision continued to the next meeting.
- Item 6 – Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Commission (Seat E): Interviewed incumbent Staajabu Staajabu. The committee nominated and forwarded her for reappointment. (Motion: Hansen, Second: Ashby; yes: Carr, Ashby, Hansen; absent: Vice-Chair Warren, who left at 2:22 p.m.)
- Item 7 – Utilities Rate Advisory Commission (Seat E): Interviewed two candidates (P. Anthony Thomas and Bill Pleckham). No nomination made; decision continued to the next meeting.
- Item 8 – Sacramento Environmental Commission (Seats A and B): The committee reviewed applications and nominated incumbents Diane Kindermann (Seat A) and Mark Barry (Seat B) for appointment. (Motion: Hansen, Second: Ashby; yes: Carr, Ashby, Hansen; absent: Warren.) Councilmember Ashby noted other strong applicants (Rodriguez and Whalen) encouraged them to apply for other boards.
Key Outcomes
- Approved: 2017 regular meeting schedule for P&PE.
- Nominated/Forwarded to Mayor: David DeCamilla (AIFM Board), Scott Leventon (Paratransit Board), Staajabu Staajabu (Housing and Redevelopment Commission), Diane Kindermann and Mark Barry (Environmental Commission).
- Continued to Next Meeting: Interviews for Ann Land/Bertha Henschel Memorial Funds Commission, Sacramento Disabilities Advisory Commission, and Utilities Rate Advisory Commission (no nominations made).
- Committee Comments: Chair Carr and Councilmember Hansen highlighted the high quality of applicants across all vacancies. The committee thanked staff for implementing “ban the box” on applications.
- Next Meeting: No date specified; nominations for continued items will be considered at the next P&PE meeting.
Meeting Transcript
We're just waiting for the third member of our committee to come. Okay, we'll call the um PNP meeting of first meeting of twenty seventeen to order. And uh I would also like to note that if you reviewed the applications, you will see that uh ban the box has taken effect and only those uh appointments that are necessary uh to have that question have you been convicted of a felony felony are now included in our applications. So we want to thank the city clerk's office for doing that. And would you like to explain the voting procedures before we start? Do you want to call the roll and then do that first? Do call the roll. All right, uh councilmember Ashby, Councilmember Warren. Councilmember Hanson, Chair Carr, we have a quorum. Here oh, sorry. I got ahead of myself. I say it here. We have a quorum. Um, if you're here to speak um for the committee and are not a candidate, you'll need to complete a speaker slip, which is located in the back window, and you turn into the assistant clerk. You can also receive an assisted listening or speaking device from the assistant clerk. This is the time to please silence any cell phones or other devices. Um for our members, this is our first um uh adventure in electronic voting. You'll see to the left of your main monitor and iPad that it should be displaying the meeting, and the item that we are on is highlighted, and as we move through the agenda, those items that we're on will be highlighted. Um you will see that there's a motion button when it comes time for you to make a motion. You will go ahead and just touch that button and it will record the motion. We'll have a second. Uh, as those things progress, you'll start seeing them show up on our screen here to I guess my right. Um, and then we'll also vote using these as well. Phoebe is here to um help us out if we have any technical difficulties. Nell's kind of running the show down there, so you see our newest addition to the clerk's office, Mr. Harris has joined us to take over Phoebe's role of chief photographer. So we'll be doing that as well. Um we'll also be um you'll notice that there is a request to speak button on your iPad, but you'll still be using your main terminal for that. As far as candidates today, you're gonna be asked. I'm gonna put it up on the screen, but there's two questions down below. That let me put those up. When we call you up to the podium, you'll be asked to answer these two questions. And when you're completing with your testimony, you will step to your right to see Mr. Harris here. Eric, will you raise your hand? And he will take your photograph that we'll include in the future package um for this committee. So, with all of that, shall I call the first item? Uh yes. Okay, our first item is the consent calendar. We have one item today, which is just the schedule for 2017. You want to mention we need to use this not yet. He moved approval, I don't so before we move on. Did you want to make that direction to me about okay? But I didn't see where he moved approval. Any any member who wants would click motion, which I see Mr. Hanson did, and did Mr. Warren click second? He did. Okay. Oh, he has to press second.
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