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The Board and Commission Project for the City of Boston
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| by Robert Winters
| The Board & Commission Project
|
| The City of Cambridge has a long list of appointed boards,
| commissions, authorities, and advisory committees on which hundreds of
| Cambridge residents (and City employees) serve.
|
| In almost all cases, the "appointing authority" is the City Manager.
|
| Not long ago there was a City Council Order requesting a list of
| members who serve on all of these boards, but a complete response was
| not forthcoming.
|
| There was a 1997 "City of Cambridge Boards and Commissions Manual"
| published by the City Manager's Office that listed most of the
| existing boards with brief descriptions of each, but this manual is
| now out of date and, to the best of my knowledge, unavailable.
|
|
| That's where YOU come in.
|
| I have set up a web page for all of the City boards and commissions,
| but it's very much a work in progress.
|
| Many who are reading this serve on one or more of these boards and are
| in an ideal position to provide a list of members and their terms as
| well as concise descriptions of the purpose of some of these
| committees.
|
| Other attend some of the meetings of these committees are in a good
| position to provide information.
|
| So, here's your invitation.
|
| The page is located at
| /docs/
|
| My request is that you look over this page and send me suggestions on
| how best to organize it, provide statements of purpose and other
| relevant information about each committee, and to give the names and
| terms of the members of these committees.
|
| Some of this information can be taken from various web pages of the
| City of Cambridge.
|
| Other information will come from your personal knowledge from either
| serving on these committees or attending their meetings.
|
|
| Contact information for board members will not be provided unless
| members specifically request to have it included.
|
| Citizen members of these committees serve out out of a sense of civic
| duty and should be respected for their willingness to give of their
| time, their energy, and their intellect.
|
| It is rarely, if ever, appropriate for members of the public to
| contact members of these boards outside of the context of public
| meetings of the respective boards.