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DISCUSSION Commission Membership As indicated in the November 2, agenda report, part of this process includes determining the appropriate number of members that would serve on a new housing and human services commission. Currently the Human Services is comprised of seven members and one alternate and the Housing Commission is comprised of five members and one alternate. While staff is neutral on the membership, it indicated that a five person commission would be capable of carrying out commission responsibilities. Your Commission indicated an interest in seven members with two that have specific expertise in the commission's primary areas of responsibility. As are result, the membership language included in the preliminary draft ordinance (Attachment 1) is as follows: The seven (7) regular commissioners and the one (1) alternate commissioner shall be selected from the community-at-large with one commissioner having expertise in human services and one commissioner with expertise in affordable housing. The regular commissioners and alternate commissioner shall be appointed by the Mayor, subject to ratification by the City Council as provided in the adopted City Council resolution establishing procedures for appointments to boards and commissions. Transition Plan Also at your November 2 meeting, staff provided two options for transitioning current Housing Commission and Human Services Commission members to the new commission is a way that generally retains seats until such time that current terms expire. Option 1 assumes that all commissioners would be eligible to serve out a full eight year term resulting in a new commission transitioning from 14 members to seven members, plus an alternate, in 2019. Option 2 reduces the term of three current commissioners by approximately seven months, which results in a slightly quicker transition to a new seven member commission. The Commission expressed that these options were too lengthy and that their implementation would distract from the new commission focusing fully on its priorities. As such, it requested additional options that would facilitate a faster transition. To address this request, staff has provided two additional options as follows: • Option 3 — The Mayor would appoint, subject to ratification from the City Council, seven commissioners, plus an alternate, from applications submitted from current Housing and Human Services Commissioners. In the event that there in an inadequate number of applications submitted from current commissioners, then the Mayor would accept applications from the community at large for the number of seats not filled by current Commissioners. Page - 2 -