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At the November 23, 2009 City of El Paso Open Space Advisory Board meeting, board members unanimously to make the following recommendations to the Mayor and City Council:
- Reinstate verbatim Paragraph Two, Article One, sub paragraphs a. through e. of the El Paso Mountain Committee enabling Ordinance 014790 in order to transfer all the duties previously enjoyed by the El Paso Mountain Committee to the Open Space Advisory Board. [To see the enabling ordinance, go here. To see comment, go here.]
- Apply those duties and expand oversight of the Open Space Advisory Board to projects in the Open Space Master Plan, new Open Space acquisitions, the Mountain Development Areas, and the hill side Development Areas.
- Permit the Open Space Advisory Board to participate in prioritization and budgeting of the Storm Water Fees and other revenue sources allocated for Open Space Projects.
- The Board shall be advisory to the Department of Planning, Research & Development, the City Plan Commission and the City Council.
Board members in their resolution also made it clear that they were fully aware and willing to increase the number of meetings necessary to satisfy any statutory development guidelines.
The Board requested the above changes in order to effectively implement the Open Space Master Plan and Council's policy regarding open space.
Tomorrow, December 1, 2009 the Mayor and City Council will hear the recommendation of the Planning LRC as well as the Resolution of the Open Space Advisory Board. It is Item 15B on the regular agenda.
OSAB Chairman, Rick Bonart, stated: "If Council approves this item on Tuesday, it will place day to day supervision of Open Space in the hands of passionate citizen advocates and not with staff and developers."
City Manager, Joyce Wilson, sent the following emailed message at 2:54 p.m. to Mayor, Council and Staff. The subject: "Weather Impact on Tuesday's Activities":
ReplyDelete"I spoke with the Mayor this afternoon in anticipation that we may have weather related delays tomorrow morning. In the event the rain/snow accumulations over the evening and night create traffic safety problems for tomorrow, we will delay City office openings and the City Council meeting until 10 AM. We will make the determination early in the morning and notify the local media in sufficient time for early morning programming, i.e., 6 AM. Please listen to the local television and radio news for information about any delays. If you don’t hear anything specifically about a delayed opening, that means we plan to open at normal hours. Thx."