In addition to serving as elected representatives, the Mayor and City Council members also have an opportunity to serve on outside committees, boards, and commissions in representing the City's interests.  The outside committees include regional agencies governed by elected officials appointed by their peers, and jurisdictional authority varies from library services to regional planning, sanitary sewers to State governance.  Appointments to Committees and Boards are done every two years following a general election.

The attached Committee List includes all appointment opportunities including meeting dates, time, and compensation if applicable.  Some outside agencies require an economic interests Form 700 filing to be filed directly with their agency, and some of the committees include an alternate as well as a representative. 

The Audit Committee is an internal City Council committee with the Mayor and up to two additional Council Members to be appointed if desired.  The Orange County Vector Control District appointment is to be is to be made for a term of two or four years, at the discretion of the City Council.  Neither the Orange County Transit Authority nor the Orange County Council of Governments boards require City Council action; members to these boards are selected by the vote of those respective board members as vacancies are noticed.  A brief description of each committee is attached.

Also attached is a letter requesting continuity for member appointment to the Orange County Fire Authority from the current Board Chair.  Currently, Council Member O'Neill represents Garden Grove as an OCFA Board Member.  Adoption of a Resolution is only required for new appointments, and a minute action is sufficient if the City Council reappoints the same individual.

It is recommended that the City Council:

• Appoint members of the City Council to the various Committees, Boards and Commissions.