Agenda Information Sheet
DEPARTMENT: Development Services/Economic Development Division
CM/ ACM: Jon Fortune
Date: August 23, 2016
SUBJECT
Title
Consider nominations/appointments to the City's Economic Development Partnership Board.
Body
BACKGROUND
The City Council appointed a Nominating Committee at the July 19, 2016, meeting that was charged with recommending nominees to the Economic Development Partnership Board. Nominating Committee members are Councilmembers Dalton Gregory and Joey Hawkins and Chamber member Larry Parker.
Economic Development Partnership Board (EDPB) members serve two-year terms and may serve as many as three terms. The ordinance creating the Board provides that EDPB members must fall into specific categories when they are originally appointed to the Board (see table below). City Council members and Chamber of Commerce Board members may be reappointed to two additional consecutive terms even if they no longer serve on the City Council or Chamber Board.
Current EDPB members are:
Name
Category
Term Expires
Cleve Breedlove, Chair
Aviation
2017
Marty Rivers, Vice Chair
Chamber of Commerce
2016 (eligible)
Larry Parker
Chamber of Commerce
2017
Chris Watts
City Council
2016 (eligible)
Greg Johnson
City Council
2017
Jim Fykes
Top 20 Taxpayer
2017
John Gilmer
Top 20 Taxpayer
2016 (eligible)
Neal Smatresk
President of the Univ. of North Texas
2016 (eligible)
Carrell Ann Simmons
At Large
2016 (eligible)
John Baines
Denton Black Chamber of Commerce
2017
Dianne Costa
Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
2016 (eligible)
Chris Watts is eligible to be re-nominated, but chose to not serve again. Joey Hawkins is nominated as the new City Council representative.
Dianne Costa's term was for only one year, and she is ineligible to be re-nominated. Jimmy Mejia is the new nominee on behalf of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
During its July 2016 meeting, the Economic Development Partnership Board voted unanimously to recommend to the Council the addi...
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