Councilmember Erica Pickett, who the Council elected Mayor Pro-Tem at our first meeting of the year, has assigned each councilmember to four council committees, based on our requests. My committee assignments are:

• Finance
• Parks and Rec
• Personnel
• Planning
• Port/City Liaison (as an alternate)

Although it has improved with Councilmember Adams's efforts to update it, the meeting list on the City’s website still lacks accurate time and place details for these meetings, so I'm maintaining my own version of the list here. My committees are already juggling times to make meetings work with our schedules, so it may take some work to keep it up-to-date.

Much as Oak Harbor and other communities are doing, and as I promised during my campaign, I’ll be working to make these committee meetings more frequent, open, and advertised, and to allow public participation.