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File #: 15-0489    Version: 1
Type: Agenda Item Status: Adopted
File created: 4/30/2015 In control: Pension, Human Resources & Civil Service Committee
On agenda: 5/7/2015 Final action: 5/7/2015
Title: Request for advice and consent to the reappointment of Zelda B. Harris as Commissioner to the MWRD Ethics Commission for a two-year term pursuant to the Ethics Ordinance
TRANSMITTAL LETTER FOR BOARD MEETING OF MAY 7, 2015
 
COMMITTEE ON PENSION, HUMAN RESOURCES AND CIVIL SERVICE
 
Honorable Mariyana T. Spyropoulos, President and Members of the Board of Commissioners
 
Title
Request for advice and consent to the reappointment of Zelda B. Harris as Commissioner to the MWRD Ethics Commission for a two-year term pursuant to the Ethics Ordinance
Body
 
Ladies and Gentlemen:
 
On May 15, 2014, the Board of Commissioners granted its advice and consent as to the appointment of Zelda B. Harris, Jose A. Lopez, and Michael J. Weicher as Commissioners of the MWRD Ethics Commission.
 
Pursuant to Section 20-2 of the Ethics Ordinance, the initial appointees of the Ethics Commission shall determine their initial terms such that two Commissioners shall serve two-year terms and the third Commissioner shall serve a one-year term.  The three Ethics Commissioners determined that Ms. Harris would serve a one-year term.  Therefore, Ms. Harris' term expires on May 15, 2015, and the terms of Mr. Lopez and Mr. Weicher will expire on May 15, 2016.  Section 20-2 of the Ordinance also provides that Commissioners may be reappointed to subsequent terms, and after the initial appointees to the Ethics Commission, all Commissioners shall be appointed to two-year terms.
 
Ms. Harris is a professor of law and the Director of the Dan K. Webb Center for Advocacy at Loyola University School of Law, and her reappointment to the Ethics Commission is warranted by the professionalism and commitment she has demonstrated by her service as a Commissioner.
 
I hereby seek the advice and consent of the Board of Commissioners, as to the reappointment of Zelda B. Harris as Commissioner to the MWRD Ethics Commission for a two-year term pursuant to the Ethics Ordinance.
 
Recommended, David St. Pierre, Executive Director, RMH:LAG:JBM:kk
Respectfully Submitted, Mariyana T. Spyropoulos, Chairman Committee on Pension, Human Resources and Civil Service
Disposition of this agenda item will be documented in the official Regular Board Meeting Minutes of the Board of Commissioners for May 7, 2015