NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Appointments were made to non-elected city boards and commissions on Tuesday, after lots of work from city staff to both streamline and make consistent the appointments to those boards.
"It makes us do a little bit more work," said Human Relations Officer Dave Sotelo. "There's more work on the council to review those applications, since we have so many and work on Linda to send out all those applications to the people that need to see them. It just makes us be more conscious of how we are recruiting. I don't have initial numbers of what the make up of those applications and then of the commissions are like. I'm hoping to do that after the beginning of the year."
The point of the new process was to make all boards that the city controls end on the calendar year, so that no matter your expertise, you'd know that if you want to serve on a city board, October is the time to apply for the coming January.
"I'm grateful for the partnerships in trying to recruit people to serve on those commissions," Sotelo said. "You probably saw that we did a lot of marketing efforts to try to increase awareness of those boards and commissions. One thing that I'm learning, which I think you mentioned early on in this process, asking people to serve is still so important."
The importance is to not limit yourself to only having those who are currently serving ask, but make more of a general appeal to the community.
"There was competition in some of these open positions," Sotelo said. "It made it fun for us to just see those applications and try to figure out who fits where. We hope that interest in our city boards and commissions continues."
Below are the appointments, as approved by the City Council:
BUILDING TRADES BOARD:
Nathan DeBerry, 2 West 21st Avenue, Hutchinson, Kansas, (General
Contractor), to fill the expired term of Brett Leiker, for a two-year
term beginning 1/01/2023 to 12/31/2024.
Ryan King, 705 East 39th Avenue, Hutchinson, Kansas, (Plumbing
Contractor position) to fill the expired term of Josh Barkley, for a
two-year term beginning 1/01/2023 to 12/31/2024.
Joel Davenport, 812 Bannock Burn Road, Hutchinson, Kansas, (Citizen-atLarge position) to fill the expired term of Paul Phillips, for a two-year
term beginning 1/01/2023 to 12/31/2024.
HOUSING COMMISSION
Carissa Paxton, 13 East 27th Avenue, Hutchinson, Kansas, to replace
Nathan DeBerry, for a first full three-year term beginning
1/01/2023 to 12/31/2025.
HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION
Jesse Ediger, 4513 Panorama Drive, Hutchinson, Kansas, to be appointed
to fill the unexpired term of Charles Johnston for the term beginning
1/01/2023 to 12/31/2024.
Daijah Fuller, 201 North Park Drive, Hutchinson, Kansas, to be appointed
to fill the unexpired term of Auhneiyce Grissom for the term
beginning 1/01/2023 to 12/31/2024.
Kristen Armstrong, 508 East 25th Avenue, Hutchinson, Kansas, for
reappointment to a first full three-year term beginning 1/01/2023
to 12/31/2025.
Anthony Frischenmeyer, 511 East Avenue C, Hutchinson, Kansas, for
reappointment to a first full three-year term beginning 1/01/2023
to 12/31/2025.
Jesse Juma, 2708 Westminster Drive, Hutchinson, Kansas, for
reappointment to a second full three-year term beginning
1/01/2023 to 12/31/2025.
LANDMARKS COMMISSION
Jeffrey Corrick, 429 East 1st Avenue, Hutchinson, Kansas (historic
homeowner), to be appointed to a first full three-year term
beginning 1/01/2023 to 12/31/2025.
Amanda Enslinger, 330 East 11th Avenue, Hutchinson, Kansas, to be
appointed to a first full three-year term beginning 1/01/2023 to
12/31/2025.
Robert Summers, 411 Hyde Park, Hutchinson, Kansas (historian – grain
industry), to be appointed to a first full three-year term beginning
1/01/2023 to 12/31/2025.
PUBLIC ART DESIGN COUNCIL
Katie Broker, 1200 East 11th Avenue #E7, Hutchinson, Kansas, to be
reappointed to a second full three-year term beginning 1/01/2023
to 12/31/2025.
Janice Richardson, 3401 Radcliff Terrace, Hutchinson, Kansas, to be
appointed to fill the expired term of Kari Mailloux, for a first full
three-year term beginning 1/01/2023 to 12/31/2025.
Brady Scott, 707 Idlewild, Hutchinson, Kansas, to be appointed to fill the
unexpired term of Larry McLain for a term beginning 1/01/2023 to
12/31/2023.
Ann Sellers, 3400 Thunderbird Drive, Hutchinson, Kansas, to be appointed
to fill the expired term of Lovella Kelley, for a first full three-year
term beginning 1/01/2023 to 12/31/2025.
Angelica Vargas, 918 North Plum, Hutchinson, Kansas, to fill the expired
term of Jim Heck, for a first full three-year term beginning
1/01/2023 to 12/31/2025.
TREE BOARD
Robert Sawyer, 425 East 15th Avenue, Hutchinson, Kansas, for a first full three year term beginning 1/01/2023 to 12/31/2025.
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