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The Yakima City Council will consider canceling the City’s Sustainability Committee at their meeting Tuesday, March 5, 5:30 pm @ City Hall, 129 N. 2nd Street, Yakima. The public may make comments at 5:30. 

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The Yakima City Council will consider canceling the City’s Sustainability Committee at their meeting Tuesday, March 5, 5:30 pm @ City Hall, 129 N. 2nd Street, Yakima. The public may make comments at 5:30. 

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Three city committees could see major changes and two could be removed from city code under a proposal before the Yakima City Council on Tuesday.

The topic was first raised at a study session on Feb. 13, when Mayor Patricia Byers presented plans to reorganize five of the 10 committees that meet, advise and report to city council on a number of topics.

One of the proposals will make the Historic Preservation, Tree Board and Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committees subcommittees of the Planning Commission.

According to the city council agenda, those subcommittees would continue with the same meetings and work, but report to and work with the planning commission, rather than city council.

Another proposal would eliminate the Sustainable Yakima and Community Integration Committees from the city code. They would no longer be official city committees, but could continue to meet on their own.

The Sustainable Yakima Committee advises city council on sustainability and environmental matters in Yakima and has been working on a plan to address climate change and its impacts locally.

The Community Integration Committee evaluates city policies with a focus on equity and accessibility. Its goals are to increase a sense of belonging and civic pride for Yakima residents.

When Byers first proposed removing those committees from the city code on Feb. 13, she said they could still meet and give presentations to city council. The committees would have more flexibility and their meetings would not need to be televised or attended by city council members and staff.

"That would, in a lot of ways, save staff time and general resources," Byers said on Feb. 13.

Deputy Mayor Matt Brown proposed increasing the planning commission's size in addition to adding subcommittees.

"I feel like our planning commission is fairly small compared to other cities," he said.

Members of many of those committees have spoken out against the reorganization at subsequent city council meetings.

Phil Hoge, a member of the Bicycle and Pedestrian Committee, said that committee and the Planning Commission deal with different subjects. The Bicycle and Pedestrian Committee focuses on traffic, he said, and the Planning Commission focuses on land use.

Jennifer Gindt, the chair of the committee, criticized the reorganization.

"The decision to move the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee to a planning commission that knows nothing about the engineering depths we go into in an hour and a half meeting once a month with 15 agenda items is wrong," she said. "We need to talk about this more."

Community members also spoke up about the Sustainable Yakima and the Community Integration Committees.

Coleen Anderson, who co-founder local environmental group 350 Yakima Climate Action, praised the Sustainable Yakima Committee's work and said it needed the support and weight of the city in completing and implementing its plans.

"There's more work to be done," she said on Feb. 27.

Other city business

It will be a busy Tuesday meeting for the council, which also will look at revisions to the city manager job description, updates to the Washington Fruit Community Center in Miller Park and bid farewell to Joan Davenport, the long-time community development director.

City staff will present a new draft of the city manager job description after receiving council feedback. The update adds options to the minimum requirements other than five years of experience as a city manager or assistant city manager.

Now applicants with 10 years of experience as a CEO or CFO in a large business could also qualify for the position.

Council meetings begin at 5:30 p.m. at Yakima City Hall at 129 N. Second St. The meetings can be observed in person or online via the city website.

To comment at the regular City Council meeting, visit bit.ly/YHRcomment and fill out the comment request form. People also can email ccouncil2@yakimawa.gov or call 509-575-6060.

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Three city committees could see major changes and two could be removed from city code under a proposal before the Yakima City Council on Tuesday.

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At Balanced, strive to carry products that are truly sustainable in all aspects - not merely end of life. When sourcing products we consider factors beyond material and reusability- like how the product was made, who made it, how they were treated, and where it will go when we are done with it.

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