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continues to be the practice this year, and I would hope future mayors will continue to do the same. I believe it has been beneficial to the conncil members currently serving. I have also tried to accommodate each councilmembers' choice of at \east one number one prcfened internal city committee, Finally, Vice Mayor Glaze and I discussed when we had our meeting regarding committees that it was my intention this year to finally serve on the Rules and Communications committee. After our discussion, he said he thought the historical facts were that the mayor never served on rules/policy committees. Since he was not quite certain, I spent some time researching old records (back to around 1978) and discovered the first time an actual "policy" committee appeared was around late 1980's or early 1990 and was chaired by Mayor Karp, followed by Mayor Faria in December 1993. In 1995 there was a vacancy which was never filled, and then in 1996 Mayor Corbett allowed three councihnembers to reconstitute the committee to create our existing Council Member Handbook. Since 1996 Council Member Bob Glaze has been a continuous member. I am recommending that I be allowed an opportunity to serve on the committee beginning this year. The ad hoc committees generally do not change since their task generally is specific and short-lived. There are cunently only two ad hoc committees - Marina and Transit. The list sent to you in January also included "Parking Issues" ad hoc; however, I have since discovered it was dissolved in 2003. Please note one important change to the school liaison committees. To allow more service in connection with schools, there are now three different members on each school liaison. J have asked Council member Nardine to serve on San Lorenzo since she indicated to them at one of our joint meetings that she would be willing to share her expertise from her years of being elected in the San Leandro school district, and she has agreed to do so. In her place, I wa<; going to place Council member Grant but because of her scheduling, she would prefer not to serve this year. I have inserted my own name on this committee after a two-year absence. After conunittees are appointed, I encourage you to select a chair from among your members. At least four committees are pre-marked because of previously established criteria. They are as follows: . Finance Committee ha<; a one-year and two-year committee member seat with the third seat being allocated to the Mayor. Cunently Council Member Nardine is serving in the two-year appointment. Her term will now move to the one-year position, Council Member Stephens has never served on finance but due to a new job and other commitments has indicated his willingness to serve next year. Consequently, Council Member Badger has agreed to stay for which Council Member Stephens was appreciative. Mayor Page 2 3/512004