AGENDA CATEGORY: General Business
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Proposed Schedule/Approach for Reviewing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Advisory Board Applications
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DEPARTMENT: Administration
PRESENTER: Malcolm Fleming, Town Administrator
TIME ESTIMATE: 30 Minutes
only required for non-consent items
FISCAL INFORMATION: N/A
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Consider public comments on this issue, then review/discuss and finalize the proposed Schedule/Approach for reviewing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Advisory Board Applications.
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SUMMARY AND BACKGROUND OF SUBJECT MATTER:
The Board of Trustees has committed to establishing a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Advisory Board (DEI Advisory Board). To get this Advisory Board up and running, the Town is advertising for volunteers to serve as Founding Members of the DEI Advisory Board. Here is a link to the posting. The deadline for submitting applications is Friday, August 21. Based on the number of applications the Town received to serve on the Police Directives Review Task Force (71), we anticipate there may be even greater interest and even more applications to serve on the DEI Advisory Board.
For all of the Town's other advisory boards, the Board of Trustees reviews applications and makes the appointments to the advisory boards. To ensure the process and timeline for reviewing applications and appointing members of the DEI Advisory Board is clear, staff recommended the following schedule and selection process outlined below.
* Schedule:
o Tue, July 28: Town posts for applications
o Fri, Aug 21: Deadline for submitting applications
o Sat, Aug 22: Human Resources Department transmits all applications to Board of Trustees
o Sat, Aug 22-Wed, Sep 2: Board of Trustees (BoT) reviews and scores individual applications
o Wed, Sep 2: Deadline for BoT Members to submit individual scores on top 12 applications to Town...
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