AN ORDINANCE to amend the Charter of the Cultural Development Authority related to board position terms; and amending Ordinance 14482, Section 7, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.49.060 and Ordinance 14482, Section 11, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.49.110.
See no discussion of all those in favor of approving the minutes, please signify by saying I opposed nay. The ayes have it. And the overwhelming majority that takes us to item five on today's agenda Ordinance 2019 439. Over the last several years, the Council has done significant work related to Fort Culture and the county's cultural development authority . Today's ordinance ordinance clarifies some changes. We related to board members, position members and I'll turn it over to Leah crackles IP to brief the committee. Good afternoon council members I'm Leah crackles IP council staff and the materials for this item begin on page seven of your packet. As the chair said, this item would amend the Charter of therefore culture or the Cultural Development Authority, which is known as for culture to make clarifications related to the board position numbers and the board position terms. As you know, or culture is governed by a 15 member board of directors, and those board members serve four terms of three years and may serve up to two consecutive terms. And in March of 2018, the Council made a number of changes to oversight of four culture, including modifying the four Culture Board appointment process to include one board appointment by each county council member and six appointments by the county executive. And during the council's work this year, confirming board board members appointing and confirming board members, council executive and fort culture staff did discover some ambiguity in the four Culture Charter and bylaws with respect to terms for appointments to four called the Culture Board . And so the proposed ordinance before you would make the following changes to the Board culture charter and bylaws first for council appointed for culture board positions. It would change the position numbers to correspond to their Council district number of the Council member responsible for making the appointment next. It would specify that board terms correspond to positions rather than the person filling the position. It would also allow, rather than require, board members to continue to serve until the director's successor has been appointed and confirmed and clarified language related to holdovers or directors serving in expired terms until a successor has been named. Finally, it would allow notice of special board meetings to be provided by email rather than by mail, so that probably the most significant change of those is changing the board terms to correspond with positions rather than the person filling them in. What that means as that when a director is appointed to a vacancy, that that person will serve for the remainder of the three year term correlating to that position. So for example, if a term expired December 31st, 2019, the new director and a new director is appointed in January of 2020. That person would serve for three years if the position were to expire at the end of this year. But the new director wasn't appointed until sometime in 2021. That person would serve the remainder of the three year term, so it would still expire at the same time rather than a new three year term. So their term would be two years rather than three years. And previously the four Culture Charter stated that directors were appointed to serve three year terms, and that provision did lead to some confusion in the case of holdovers directors changing from one board position to another, directors being appointed after extended vacancies, etc. and it also caused board positions to expire in uneven batches, with as many as six terms expiring in some years and as few as four in other years, according to the executive staff. Linking board terms to board positions rather than the people serving in the terms is more consistent with how most county boards and commissions work, and it also allows for terms to expire. The terms to remain as staggered in the event of vacancies on the board and the proposed ordinance wouldn't change the terms of any current serving board members. This would only apply to new appointments. And that concludes my staff report. Questions of Miss Crackles IP. Councilmember Lambert. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So let's say you get appointed and that term does end for two years. So you fill out the rest of that term and then you get reappointed for a three year term and then you can be reappointed for another three year term. So the max you could serve would be like eight and a half years. Is that right? So the charter does currently say that a full term is considered at anything two years or more is considered a full term. Okay. So if someone was appointed to fill out the remainder of a term and they serve two years, that would be considered a full term. Okay. So they could only serve one more consecutive full term. That's good to know. And the last question I had was. Do we do any evaluation at the end of a major project to ask the person who project it was how they felt the process went. They talking like a legislative like code change like like was. No, my example is to say, for instance, we have a new building that goes up and the tenants of that building work with for culture on the art for that building. And then at the end of the process, is there a survey that goes to them that says, how did the process go? What were things that went smoothly? What didn't were improvements? Because they think we need to know when tenants in different buildings have had issues. Okay, I just do have Claire Miccio. And then for culture, government and community relations here in the audience, she may be able to speak to that or bring that suggestion back to Brian Carter , the executive director. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. I'm Claire. Meantime, the government relations and commuter government and community relations manager for for culture. So I'm not sure specifically which public our program you're talking about what tenets but I'll go back to the public art team and get back in touch with you. We have lots of different types of ways that we get feedback from different programs, so I want to make sure I get the right answer for you before I speak to that. Okay. I would very much like that. I think having just been through a large process that went on for four years, I think there were strengths and there were other things and I think we should all know when those things are happening so that we can help make things work more smoothly. Okay. Thank you. See? No further questions. Madam Vice Chair. Madam Vice Chair, I have long arms. I thank you, Mr. Chair. I know. Proposed ordinance number 2019 0439 be given a pass recommendation. Council member Caldwell's Place Ordinance 2019 439 before us with a do pass recommendation mikakos up. Do you mind speaking to the amendment? Sure. There is an amendment Amendment one that would simply update the roster, the for culture board roster that is attached to this legislation. And the update would be to correct the name of one of the board members and to update it to include some appointments that have occurred that since this legislation was in. And as the form notes, a couple of people have been nominated but not yet confirmed. And then the striking public policy in the amendment to my friend, is that while the world knows King Kassam as King Kazim, evidently that is not his legal name. So it's Kazim Incognita and it creates the roster to have his legal name. With that, a number of calls. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move amendment number one. Councilmember Caldwell's has moved adoption of amendment one. See? No discussion. All those in favor. Please say I opposed nay. The ayes have it. The amendment is adopted ordinance 2019 for 39 as amended. See no discussion. Madam Clerk, would you please call the roll? Thank you, Mr. Chair. Councilmember Bell Duchin. Councilmember. Councilmember Dunn, Councilmember Garzon. Councilmember Cole. Well, Councilmember Lander Council member of the Council. Councilmember Yvonne Reischauer, I. Mr. Chairman, I. Mr. Chair, you have seven eyes, no nose. Thank you. And unless there's objection, we will place that on consent and the regular course of business. And that takes us to item six Proposed Motion 2018 561. The final agenda item today is the adoption of the language access plans for county agencies.