A thought on the Finance Advisory Board

If you go to the City's web site and look at the page that lists all of the city boards, you will notice that the Finance Advisory Board is not listed. No surprise here. In fact it lists 14 boards whereas there are 17. The Board vacancy section has not been updated since August 23, 2010 and that pretty much sums up the importance placed on volunteer boards.

This Board has never had a staff secretary. Its meetings are never published. You can never get back-up to agenda items. It has been the step-child of volunteer boards. You have to wonder. This is a Board that could have been valuable. It always had three strikes against it.

On June 16th at 5:30, applicants for various board vacancies will be interviewed.