University Area Commission – Governance Committee
Agenda – November 6, 2013
According to Article IV Section 7: The Governance Committee shall:
a. Implement these by laws and elections rules as required;
b. Research the effectiveness and applicability of these by laws and make recommendations to the Commission for amendments to the by laws;
c. Conduct the orientation of new commissioners;
d. Coordinate t he internal activities of the Commission.
Agenda:
- Discuss plan for annual Commissioner training
- Plan for December Super Committee Meeting
- Finalize topics to cover during training
- Ideas previously discussed for training:
- Cover the basic city structure of the offices and services provided by the City of Columbus
- Ohio Sunshine laws and how they apply to Area Commissions
- City code enforcement – Focus on rooming houses
- Zoning items:
- Have the city explain what is their enforcement mechanism when people violate a permit
- Explanation on how the City works and where people need to go to get services or their problems solved.
- Ask the City to explain the role of the Area Commissions in City government – specifically as it applies to the UAC.
- Discuss quality of life issues in the University District
- Police issues
- How to non emergency calls to the police
- Code enforcement procedures
- Consider having a presentation from Columbus 311
- Develop a series of questions ahead of the presentation so they can prepare
- Request all Commissioners think about things they would like answers to on all the areas covered by 311
- Develop a series of questions ahead of the presentation so they can prepare
- Consider having someone from Code Enforcement come to speak
- Explanation on how they function
- What triggers them to take action
- Explanation on the purview and purpose of the Environmental court
- Consider having City Attorney Rick Pfeiffer come in to speak to many of the topics listed above.
- Identify people from the City who could support training
- Talk to Matthew Hanson of UDO to confirm he is able to support getting people from the City to speak.
- Ideas previously discussed for training:
Committee Members 2012-2013 Commission Year
Commissioner | Present | Absent | Excused |
Sharon Young |
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Bill Graver |
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Lucas Dixon | |||
Terra Goodnight | |||
Jim Bach | |||
Doreen Uhas-Sauer | |||
Colin Odden | |||
David Hegley |
Note: Agenda subject to change