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Home My WebLink AboutAgenda - City Council - 05/25/2023 - Committee InterviewsAGENDA SOUTH BURLINGTON CITY COUNCIL Subcommittee for Committee Interviews South Burlington City Hall 180 Market Street SOUTH BURLINGTON, VERMONT Participation Options In Person: 180 Market Street – Room 301 – 3rd Floor Assistive Listening Service Devices Available upon request Electronically:https://meet.goto.com/SouthBurlingtonVT/citycouncil-committeeinterviews05-25-2023You can also dial in using your phone: +1 (571) 317-3122 Access Code: 480-376-853 Subcommittee for Committee Interviews 3:00 P.M. Thursday May 25, 2023 1.Welcome and Meeting Purpose (3:00 PM) 2.Comments and questions from the public not related to the agenda (3:05 – 3:15 PM) 3.*** Interviews with applicants for appointment to City Boards and Committees (3:15 – 6:00PM) •Bike & Pedestrian •Common Area for Dogs •Energy •Natural Resources & Conservation •Recreation & Parks •Sextons 4.Other Business 5. Adjourn Respectfully Submitted: Jessie Baker City Manager *** Attachments Included 1 Jessie Baker From:taralovers@netzero.net Sent:Monday, May 15, 2023 8:13 PM To:Jessie Baker Cc:Erica Quallen Subject:'EXTERNAL'Re: Committee Appointment Process - FY24 Bike/Ped Attachments:Committee Appointment Process - FY24 This message has originated from an External Source. Please use proper judgment and caution when opening attachments, clicking links, or responding to this email. Jesse, Thanks for your message, this new process for interviewing sounds like it will save a lot of time, and still give the city a chance to interview any potential candidates. What skill sets or professional backgrounds are you interested in adding to the Committee? We are fortunate to have members with experience in city planning, bike infrastructure, and business. Erica has great expertise in construction. I think anyone with passion for bike/ped issues will be of benefit. People from more diverse backgrounds are very welcome, particularly with physical challenges. These perspectives are invaluable for our committee. We could use someone who enjoys/is willing to sit in on DRB meetings. One of our past members was very diligent and was a good advocate for bike/ped. We don't currently have anyone to do this. As we work on implementing our climate action plan, we are working on creating a culture shift, and behavioral shifts. For this goal, we would appreciate any skill set with education, writing, and function planning or any other skill set I'm not thinking of that would help us work on this goal. Do you have attendance concerns for any individuals who may be reapplying to serve? No, none what so ever. Are there individuals reapplying to serve that you feel do not warrant an interview and should be reappointed? The idea is that if we have active and productive volunteers who want to keep going, no need to pull them in for another night meeting. NOTE: I will share these names with the relevant Committee Chairs/Vice Chairs and Staff Liaisons on May 18/19. I think Dana Farr and Nic Anderson are both valuable members of our committee, I'd like to advocate for reappointment without interview for both of them. Nic is our Clerk, who takes such complete minutes they are basically a transcript. He is also Sr. Director of Planning and Operations at Champlain College, with extensive professional bike infrastructure experience and he often works with local motion. Dana is an experienced road cyclist and frequent bike commuter. She has been with our committee for 11 years and brings practical experience and historical knowledge, the kind that is never written down anywhere, but is really helpful to know. thanks so much for asking these great questions, happy to send along more info as needed. 2 Havaleh chair, BPC Please note: message attached From: Jessie Baker <jbaker@southburlingtonvt.gov> To: Sandra Dooley <dooleyvt1@comcast.net>, Havaleh Gagne <taralovers@netzero.net>, Erica Quallen <equallen@southburlingtonvt.gov>, "Peter Taylor (pt46er@gmail.com)" <pt46er@gmail.com>, Betty iPhone <bmilizia@comcast.net>, Holly Rees <hrees@southburlingtonvt.gov>, Dawn Philibert <dawnph@comcast.net>, Marla Keene <mkeene@southburlingtonvt.gov>, Marty Gillies <mgillies@southburlingtonvt.gov>, "jrbipad@gmail.com" <jrbipad@gmail.com>, Ilona Blanchard <IBlanchard@SouthBurlingtonVT.gov>, "Tim Perrin (perrin.t@gmail.com)" <perrin.t@gmail.com>, Lou Bresee <lbresee@southburlingtonvt.gov>, "47central@comcast.net" <47central@comcast.net>, Stacey Pape <papesjda4@gmail.com>, Jennifer Murray <jmurray@SouthBurlingtonVT.gov>, Jean‐Sebastien Chaulot <chaulot@gmail.com>, Dave Wheeler <dwheeler@southburlingtonvt.gov>, Martha Machar <mmachar@southburlingtonvt.gov>, Steve Locke <slocke@southburlingtonvt.gov>, Jessica Louisos <jlouisos@southburlingtonvt.gov>, Paul Conner <pconner@southburlingtonvt.gov>, Kelsey Peterson <kpeterson@southburlingtonvt.gov>, Donna Kinville <dkinville@southburlingtonvt.gov>, "ravi_venkataraman@outlook.com" <ravi_venkataraman@outlook.com> Cc: Helen Riehle <hriehle@southburlingtonvt.gov>, Meaghan Emery <memery@southburlingtonvt.gov>, Tim Barritt <tbarritt@southburlingtonvt.gov>, Tyler Barnes <tbarnes@southburlingtonvt.gov>, Andrew Chalnick <achalnick@southburlingtonvt.gov> Subject: Committee Appointment Process ‐ FY24 Date: Mon, 8 May 2023 18:45:11 +0000 From:Jean Sebastien Chaulot To:Jessie Baker Subject:"EXTERNAL"Re: Committee Appointment Process - FY24 Date:Tuesday, May 9, 2023 4:49:20 PM This message has originated from an External Source. Please use proper judgment and caution when opening attachments, clicking links, or responding to this email. Good afternoon Jessie, My answers to the subcommittee interviewing for the NRCC candidates are below:What skill sets or professional backgrounds are you interested in adding to theCommittee? A professional background or a degree in environmental science is a perfectprofile to be part of the committee. Members with a love of nature and goodcommunicators also matches well the profile of a good candidate. This committee isscience based and the candidate must trust the sciences as a base to lead to the bestdecisions. Do you have attendance concerns for any individuals who may be reapplying to serve? NoAre there individuals reapplying to serve that you feel do not warrant an interview andshould be reappointed? Larry Kupferman is a strong member of the NRCC andinterviewing him is not required. I already met with 2 potential candidates for the vacant seats: Julian K. and Christine S. andthey both seem to be a good fit for the positions. Thank you, Jean On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 2:45 PM Jessie Baker <jbaker@southburlingtonvt.gov> wrote: Hello Committee Chairs (or vice chairs) and Staff Liaisons, As you know, with many upcoming appointments to make this year, the Council has amended their process to interview candidates for appointments. They have established twosubcommittees for this purpose. These subcommittees will make appointment recommendations to the full Council who will ultimately appoint each volunteer. Below isan outline of the process and some key questions for you. All incumbents who are interested in continuing to serve are asked to reapply. The information on these open seats and the application can be found here. The deadline for all to apply is May 18th. Committee Chairs (assuming they are not up for reappointment – and if so, the vice chairs) and Staff Liaisons are welcome to attend the interviews if you’d like – but are not required. The Subcommittees are interested in hearing from you on the following questions: What skill sets or professional backgrounds are you interested in adding to theCommittee? Do you have attendance concerns for any individuals who may be reapplying toserve? Are there individuals reapplying to serve that you feel do not warrant an interview andshould be reappointed? The idea is that if we have active and productive volunteers who want to keep going, no need to pull them in for another night meeting. NOTE: Iwill share these names with the relevant Committee Chairs/Vice Chairs and Staff Liaisons on May 18/19. If you could send this information to me by May 19th we can include this information in the materials for the subcommittee’s interviews. Subcommittee #1 is Helen, Meaghan, and Tim. They will interview candidates for: Affordable Housing CharterEconomic Development Housing Trust FundPublic Art Library TrusteesPension Advisory They will hold these interviews on: May 22nd from 4:00 to 7:00 May 30th from 3:00 to 6:00 Subcommittee #2 is Helen, Tyler, and Andrew. They will interview candidates for: Bike & PedCommon Area for Dogs EnergyNatural Resources & Conservation Recreation & ParksSextons They will hold these interviews on: May 25th from 3:00 to 6:30 May 30th from 6:00 to 9:00 Full Council – Due to their policy and regulatory nature, the full Council will interview for: Planning CommissionDevelopment Review Board They will hold these interviews on: June 5th at their regular Council meeting Finally, while I have you, the City Attorney and I will be holding the annual Committeeorientation on July 13, 2023 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. We encourage all new and continuingcommittee members to attend and ask questions! We will also record this session in case folks aren’t able to attend that evening. If you have any questions about this process, please feel free to reach out. Thank you for allyou do for good governance in South Burlington! Jessie Jessie Baker City Manager City of South Burlington 180 Market Street South Burlington, VT 05403 jbaker@southburlingtonvt.gov (802) 846-4107 southburlingtonvt.gov -- Jean-Sébastien Chaulot City of South BurlingtonFY24 Committee Appointment ProcessEach candidate shall be asked the questions below. This scoring matrix is provided to assist the Councilors through the process.Committee Candidate Please explain your interest in this specific appointment. What do you hope to accomplish with this service? Tell us about how you work as part of a group. What skills to do bring to the table?Each candidate commented on the draft values/goals from the Comprehensive Plan development to date. How do their responses align to the values in the Comprehensive Plan?