To: Board of Supervisors
From: Internal Operations Committee
Report Title: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR APPOINTMENT TO THE HAZARDOUS MATERIALS COMMISSION
?Recommendation of the County Administrator ? Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPOINT to the Hazardous Materials Commission: Gretchen Salter to the Environmental Organization Alternate #1 seat to complete the current term that will end on December 31, 2024, and Kenneth Luther to the General Public Alternate seat to complete the current term ending December 31, 2023 and to a new four-year term that will end on December 31, 2027.
FISCAL IMPACT:
No fiscal impact.
BACKGROUND:
The Hazardous Materials Commission was established in 1986 to advise the Board, County Staff and the mayors, council members, and staffs of the cities within the County, on issues related to the development, approval, and administration of the County Hazardous Waste Management Plan. Specifically, the Board charged the Commission with drafting a Hazardous Materials Storage and Transportation Plan and Ordinance, coordinating the implementation of the Hazardous Materials Release Response Plan and inventory program, and to analyze and develop recommendations regarding hazards materials issues with consideration to broad public input, and report back to the Board on matters referred to the Commission.
Environmental Organization Alternate seat #1 was vacated due to the resignation of Lisa Parks and declared vacant by the Board of Supervisors on April 18, 2023 (Item C. 31). The bylaws of the Hazardous Materials Commission provide for two representatives of environmental organizations, with all applicants to any of the two "Environmental Organization" seats to be nominated by an environmental organization, but that no particular environmental organization will have an exclusive right to nominate an individual to any one of the two aforesaid seats or their alternates, and therefore, which environmental organizations are represented on th...
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