Environmental committee looks to get revamped

City officials were appalled last year when no one applied for four open seats on the Environmental Committee and one of the three remaining members resigned.

A council subcommittee, appointed to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it, provided some recommendations, which were approved by the council Feb. 7.

The recommendations included assigning specific tasks for the newly renamed Environmental Sustainability Committee.

“What we saw as part of the problem was that council did a poor job of communicating what we wanted them to do, so every member came up with projects and everyone went off in different directions,” said Mayor Pro Tem Verna Rollinger, who served on the subcommittee with Mayor Jane Egly and Planning Commissioner Norm Grossman.

The subcommittee avoided that pitfall by recommending that the revamped committee be assigned the tasks of developing a sustainability element for the General Plan and recommending Complete Streets projects.

–Barbara Diamond, @CoastlinePilot, Coastline Pilot

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