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Chair Ritter: Should we have a list of all of our appointments at the January meeting? Gerry, are we okay to make this in the first meeting in January; selection of Commissioners and Alternates for committees? Beaudin: Will do. i. Selection of one replacement Planning Commission representative for the Downtown Specific Plan Update Task Force Chair Ritter: Do you want to give us the update for that Gerry? Beaudin: I'll jump in and I'm going to have support from both folks who have been working on this a lot as we go here. So our DSP Update Task Force membership from the Planning Commission was selected and I think we did that in September. At that point, we appointed two members — Commissioner Allen and Chair Ritter, and we had Commissioner Brown as our alternate. The City Council ratified that list. We made some changes to our definition of public official and we also had some questions for FPPC. After the analysis that went into both of those efforts, we're now down to just a couple of people who are actually going to qualify here or who have a desire to be on the Task Force. What we're here tonight to ask you to do is to reconsider the list. We had Commissioner Allen who had a conflict. We had some other conflict issues and they're in the staff report if you want to read about those as well, but Commissioner Allen had a conflict so we'd like to replace Commissioner Allen and then we'll bring this back to the City Council and have them re- ratify the task force membership list. Commissioner O'Connor: So Gerry, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't there only three people up here who don't have a conflict? Beaudin: Commissioner O'Connor has some property proximate to downtown and for perception reasons has stepped back. Commissioner Nagler at a prior meeting discussed not wanting to be part of the task force also, and so Chair Ritter and Commissioner Brown are the two folks who are left. I'm going to make a staff recommendation because it's all that's left; that the two of you be the Downtown Specific Plan Update Task Force members and I'll turn it over to the Commission for discussion with that recommendation. Chair Ritter: We have no alternate basically. Commissioner O'Connor: David, would you be available as an alternate? Commissioner Nagler: Before we go there, this is actually a more complex issue than has been addressed, and if I could just take a moment. I appreciate it's been a long evening and what we don't want is another long- winded conversation, but I'm afraid the topic is important, or at least, it surely is to me. Let me start by saying what I'm about to say has not been discussed with Commissioner Allen. She has no idea that I'm about to say what I'm about to say. I think it's important for that to be in the public record. I think it's also important to say I have PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, December 14, 2016 Page 43 of 49