Amador County – The Plymouth City Council last week looked at council committee assignments, creating one new position and deciding to leave two other committees in place.
Mayor Patricia Fordyce on Thursday led a review and cleanup of the council committee list, making the addition of a “Lodge Hill liaison.” City Clerk Gloria Stoddard said Fordyce appointed Kathleen Johnson, office assistant and code enforcement clerk, to be the Lodge Hill liaison.
The council discussed eliminating the “administration and finance committee,” and also the “community development committee,” both made up of Councilman Jon Colburn and Councilwoman Pat Shackleton. After discussion, the council and Fordyce decided to keep the two committees in place.
Stoddard said City Manager Dixon Flynn requested that the council and mayor leave the two committees in place, so that Flynn has a contact and sounding board on the council if he needs it to check on ideas in daily business.
Stoddard said he can ask them, “do you think that will fly here in Plymouth? – because they live here and he doesn’t,” and they have a better feel for how ideas may be received.
In council reports, Vice Mayor Greg Baldwin reported that as a board member of the Amador Regional Transit System, he recently conducted interviews toward filling the manager position. One of the finalists had taken another job offer, and another turned out to not be qualified for the job.
Baldwin said the ARTS board reopened the job search for new applicants, which closed last Friday, and they will “try to find a candidate that is more suitable for the manager position.”
Baldwin said the Amador County Transportation Commission will have a vacancy to be appointed by the Mayors Select Committee in January, when he steps down, after two years on its administrative board, this last year as president. He said there could be two vacancies, including his, among city seats.
Sutter Creek Councilman Pat Crosby, also an ACTC board member, is not seeking reelection in November.
Colburn reported attended a recent Central Sierra Conservation District meeting, and reported that Mariposa County is joining the group. He said the group is also considering creating a “joint powers authority,” and each member entity is being contacted about that.
Colburn said Mariposa County’s former chief administrative officer is now the head of the state Fish & Game Department, making for a good relationship for the district and for the possible new JPA.
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