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City Council Meeting Minutes April 16 2019 Page 6 of 8 Councilmember Leh wondered if there should be a general policy to appoint positions that might be longer than say six months and not fill if shorter than that. Councilmember Keany stated an eight month vacancy would be a long time He stated it would make sense to appoint to some of these if we have ready applications Councilmember Loo stated there was a good pool of applicants for the LRC and there was some consensus from Council on the top candidates, we could appoint based on that. For the Planning Commission she would like to advertise for candidates and get a pool to choose from to make an appointment sooner rather than later Mayor Pro Tem Lipton disagreed, he is fine deferring to the annual process for the Board of Adjustment, Board of Appeals, Planning Commission, and Recreation Board He added the LRC is more complicated as you need four votes to approve or disapprove anything He suggested reaching back to the pool and interview applicants again if they are still interested Councilmember Maloney stated the Council could just interview a shortlist of LRC applicants Mayor Muckle stated he did not support this strategy Councilmember Loo stated this is a volunteer position and to put people through another round of interviews is too much Mayor Muckle stated he has heard from m people that we are making the process stressful Councilmember Stolzmann stated she agrees the Board of Adjustment, Board of Appeals, Planning Commission_, and Recreation Board can wait. She agreed perhaps if it is for less than six months we wait on appointments She stated she is open to reinterviewing for the LRC but perhaps we just need a meeting to discuss the applications. She stated she is also open to just leaving them vacant and using the annual process Mayor Muckle agreed the Board of Adjustment, Board of Appeals, Planning Commission, and Recreation Board can be left vacant. He agreed with Mayor Pro Tem Lipton it is a bad idea to leave the LRC open He prefers the process that was previously agreed to Councilmember Stolzmann moved that the Council wait on all appointments until the annual process, Mayor Pro Tem Lipton seconded it for the purpose of conversation Mayor Muckle reiterated he feels it is a bad idea to leave the LRC open for the reasons Mayor Pro Tem Lipton mentioned earlier Councilmember Stolzmann stated this is a clean way to handle this All of the vacancies except one will be less than six months We should consider waiting