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Corporate Services
Report To: Mayor C. Zehr and Members of Council
Date of Meeting: December 8, 2008
Submitted By: Nominating Committee
Prepared By: R. Gosse, City Clerk
S. Adams, Director of Corporate & Community Planning
Ward(s) Involved: n/a
Date of Report: November 27, 2008
Report No.: CRPS-08-191
Subject: APPOINTMENTS TO BOARDS AND COMMITTEES
RECOMMENDATION:
For Information only.
BACKGROUND:
Every two years Council makes its appointments to Boards, Special Committees and Advisory
Committees. In September, 2008 Council adopted the recommendation to establish a
Nominating Committee whose mandate will be to provide a list of screened, eligible nominees
for Council's consideration in appointment to Advisory Committees.
REPORT:
On October 27, 2008, Council appointed Bradley Barbour, Sherry Landry, Holt Sivak and Gillian
Wells as the Nominating Committee for a term expiring December, 2010. With support of
Shelley Adams, Director of Community & Corporate Planning, Linda Korabo, Executive
Assistant to the General Manager of Corporate Services and, Randy Gosse, City Clerk, the
Committee reviewed the 100+ applications for appointment to the Boards and Committees.
The committee dealt with those applications to the Advisory Committees, determining eligibility
in accordance with Council Policy and reviewed current membership with returning members
and new applicants. As best they could, the committee applied a diversity lens to the
committees to determine if the returning and new applicants reflect Kitchener's community.
The committee then went through the process of selecting applicants that best met specific
criteria of each advisory committee and although not part of their mandate, the committee
developed a suggested slate of candidates listed by committee. It was felt that the suggested
slate may be useful in assisting Council with its final appointments and therefore, the committee
has attached its list of suggested applicants for each committee.
At this, the conclusion of the Nominating Committee's brief inaugural year, gains have been
made in advisory committee recruitment, screening and appointment processes. The process
has been streamlined and enhanced, incorporating recommendations of City Council, citizen
volunteers and staff through the Advisory Committee Review initiative and fully detailed in Chief
Administrator's Office reports CAO-08-021 & 08-027.
Staff will continue to work with the Nominating Committee members to develop stronger footings
moving forward and specifically to:
o develop a Nominating Committee Terms of Reference for Council approval early in the
new year; and,
o align Advisory Committee application forms, tasks and processes with the "draft"
diversity lens to put into operation the goals and objectives of the community
engagement and diversity strategies, currently under design.
FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS:
n/a
R. Gosse - Director of Legislated Services