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McGillivary Special to the Record-Eagle/Brian McGillivary
TRAVERSE CITY â Three of Traverse Cityâs planning commissioners will rejoin the board for a new term, and an ad hoc committee will meet to interview candidates for a fourth seat.
Mayor Jim Carruthers found just enough support at a recent meeting for what he offered as a compromise amid a recurring battle among city commissioners over how mayoral appointments are selected.
City leaders voted 4-3 to reappoint Planning Commissioners Janet Fleshman, David Hassing and Heather Shaw, and to create a subcommittee to interview someone to fill the vacancy commission Chairwoman Linda Koebert will leave. She opted in June not to seek reappointment for various personal reasons, and wants to stay on through a Jan. 5 public hearing on some Eighth Street zoning changes, she said.