To: Board of Supervisors
From: Monica Nino, County Administrator
Report Title: BOARD MEMBER ASSIGNMENTS TO 2025 BOARD COMMITTEES, SPECIAL COUNTY COMMITTEES, AND REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
☒Recommendation of the County Administrator ☐ Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
1. ACKNOWLEDGE that the Board of Supervisors adopted a policy on Board Member Committee Assignments on March 21, 2000.
2. ACKNOWLEDGE that adoption of a new Master Resolution with a complete roster of all appointments is required by Board policy whenever terms expire or new appointments are made.
3. ADOPT Resolution appointing Board members and other individuals to serve on Board committees, special county committees, and regional boards/ committees/ commissions for 2025, some of which include additional compensation in the form of stipends.
4. INDICATE that this Resolution supersedes in its entirety Resolution No. 2024/01, which was adopted by the Board of Supervisors on January 9, 2024.
5. RESOLVE that Board Members as named are APPOINTED to serve on Board committees, special county committees and regional boards/ committees/ commissions as specified on Attachment II as Internal Standing Committees (Type I), Other Internal Committees, (Type II), Regional Bodies (Type III), Special/Restricted Seats (Type IV), and Ad Hoc Committees (Type V).
6. DIRECT staff to post on the County website a single Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) Form 806, which lists all the paid appointed positions on committees, boards, or commissions for members of the Board of Supervisors. When there is a change in compensation or a new appointment, DIRECT staff to update the Form 806 to reflect the change. The form must be updated promptly as changes occur.
7. AUTHORIZE the Chair of the Board to designate one or more members of the Board of Supervisors as delegates from Contra Costa County to the National Association of Counties (NACo) Legislative Meeting to be held on March 1-4, 2025 in Washington, D.C. and to the NACo Annual Conference to be held July 11-14, 2025 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no fiscal impact.
BACKGROUND:
Each year when the Board of Supervisors reorganizes, the incoming Chair reviews and makes recommendations to the Board on committee assignments. The annual review of committee assignments is governed by a policy (Attachment I) adopted by the Board in March 2000.
Transmitted in this staff report and its attachments are the Chair's recommendation for 2025. These recommendations (Attachment II, sorted by committee type and, Attachment III, sorted alphabetically) seek to provide policy oversight for all major County functional areas, balance the workload of the Supervisors, and consider some of the extracurricular responsibilities and appointments of the Supervisors on regional and other bodies.
Seat terms for appointments for which the term was either unspecified by the body or left to the discretion of the Board of Supervisors are recommended to be designated as "Unspecified" and reviewed at the discretion of the Board Chair.
FPPC Form 806
In April 2012, the Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) adopted Regulation 18705.5, which permits a Supervisor to vote on his/her own appointment to a body or board paying a salary or stipend for service if all of the following conditions are met:
1. The appointment is to a committee, board, or commission of a public agency, a special district, a joint powers agency or authority, or a metropolitan planning organization; and
2. State law, a local ordinance, or a joint powers agreement requires the Board to appoint; and
3. The Board adopts and posts on its website, a list of each appointed position for which compensation is paid, the salary or stipend for the position, the name of the appointee, the name of the alternate, if any, and the term of the appointment.
Form 806 is used to report additional compensation that officials receive when appointing themselves to positions on committees, boards, or commissions of a public agency, special district, and joint powers agency or authority. Each agency must post on its website a single Form 806, listing all of the paid appointed positions. When there is a change in compensation or a new appointment, the Form 806 is updated to reflect the change. The form must be updated promptly as changes occur.
Staff of the County Administrator's Office has prepared the Form 806 and has posted it to the County's website. Staff will update the form after the Board of Supervisors acts to adopt the Master List of Board Member Committee Assignments for 2025.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
Unless the Board of Supervisors acts to adopt a Master List of appointments to committees, special county committees, and regional boards/committees/commissions, there is no official roster of Board member appointments to these bodies.
THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
and for Special Districts, Agencies and Authorities Governed by the Board
body
IN THE MATTER OF DESIGNATING BOARD MEMBER ASSIGNMENTS TO 2025 BOARD COMMITTEES, SPECIAL COUNTY COMMITTEES, AND REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
WHEREAS each year when the Board of Supervisors reorganizes, the incoming Chair reviews and makes recommendations to the Board on committee assignments. The annual review of committee assignments is governed by a policy adopted by the Board of Supervisors in March 2000 (see Attachment I); and
WHEREAS these appointments seek to provide policy oversight for all major County functional areas, balance the workload of the Supervisors, as well as consider some of the time-intensive responsibilities and appointments of the Supervisors on regional bodies; and
WHEREAS these appointments attempt to maintain, to the extent possible, continuity on Board standing committees to facilitate recommendations on many very complex policy issues currently on referral to those committees; and
WHEREAS after a period of inactivity of a committee or body, it is advisable to remove it from the list of Board committee assignments; and
WHEREAS adoption of a new Master Resolution with a complete roster of all appointments is required by Board policy whenever terms expire or new appointments are made; and
WHEREAS, after any new appointments or reappointments are made, when there is a change in compensation for any appointment, or where there is a change in the number of meetings of the board or committee to which an appointment is made, the Fair Political Practices Commission requires the County to update and post on the County’s website the County’s Report of Public Official Appointments, Form 806.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS RESOLVES TO:
1. APPOINT the Board members and other individuals to serve on Board committees, special county committees and regional boards / committees / commissions as specified in the Master List (see Attachment II) as Type I for Board Standing Committees, Type II for Other Internal Committees, Type III for Regional Bodies, Type IV for Special/Restricted seats, and Type V for Board Ad Hoc Committees.
2. INDICATE that this Resolution supersedes in its entirety Resolution No 2024/01, which was adopted by the Board of Supervisors on January 9, 2024.
3. UPDATE the County's Report of Public Official Appointments, Form 806, to reflect the appointments on the adopted Master List for 2025 and post it on the County's website.