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A new committee tasked with offering city officials advice on equity issues will have eight community members with widely varying backgrounds and job experiences.
“This is an impressive group of people,” Mayor Catherine Blakespear said of the 16 applicants.
She selected eight of them, saying that number, plus herself and Councilwoman Kellie Shay Hinze, will make up a group of 10 people a size she called both workable and meaningful.
As the city’s mayor, Blakespear has the authority to select the candidates and the council then votes on whether to approve her recommendations. Last week’s vote to approve was unanimous, though councilmen Tony Kranz and Joe Mosca said they wished Blakespear had included applicant Dan Vaughn, the director of St. Andrew’s Interfaith Shelter program and the president of the Olivenhain Town Council.