Resolution 2025-01 confirming Councilmember appointments to outside agencies for 2025

Adopt Resolution 2025-01 confirming Councilmember appointments to various outside agencies for 2025.  

In addition to their duties on the City Council, Council Members serve as the City’s representatives to various outside agencies. 

At the beginning of each year it is appropriate to appoint or reappoint Council Members to the following outside agency Boards and Commissions:

• Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments (AMBAG) - AMBAG governed by a twenty-four member Board of Directors comprised of elected officials from each City and County within the region. Elected officials from 18 cities and two supervisors from each county make up the AMBAG Board. The AMBAG region includes Monterey, San Benito and Santa Cruz County. AMBAG serves as both a federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) and Council of Governments (COG).  

• Central Coast Community Energy (3CE) Policy Board of Directors - Policy Board Directors must be elected members of the Board of Supervisors or City Council of the municipality. Seats rotate per MOU between Pacific Grove, Carmel-by-the-Sea, and Monterey. For the two-year term 1/2025-12/2026, Monterey holds primary representative seat and Carmel-by-the-Sea holds the alternate seat on this board. 

• Community Human Services Board of Directors - Community Human Services is a 501c(3) nonprofit and Joint Powers Authority (JPA) with a governing board of representatives from 15 cities and school districts in Monterey County. JPA members include: City of Carmel, City of Del Rey Oaks, City of Marina, City of Monterey, City of Pacific Grove, City of Salinas, City of Sand City, City of Seaside, Carmel Unified School District, Monterey Peninsula Unified School District, Pacific Grove Unified School District, Monterey Peninsula Community College District, North Monterey County Unified School District, Monterey County Office of Education, and Santa Rita Union School District.

• Illegal Dumping and Litter Abatement Task Force - The Illegal Dumping and Litter Abatement Task Force (IDLATF) is a working group with members from local city and county governments, solid waste haulers and landfill operators, law enforcement, business leaders in agriculture, members of the community, as well as private landowners and ranchers, whose only focus is to reduce illegal dumping in Monterey County. The Monterey County Health Department, Environmental Health Bureau is chair of the IDLATF and meetings are held monthly.

• Monterey Peninsula Regional Water District Policy Advisory Committee - The purpose of this committee is to make recommendations to the MPWMD Board of Directors on policy matters referred by the Board. The Committee is not currently active, but it is recommneded to appoint a representative from Carmel City Council in the event a meeting is needed this year. 

• Monterey Regional Taxi Authority (MRTA) - Meets once per year. Administered by MST.

• Monterey Salinas Transit (MST) Board of Directors - The MST board of directors is comprised of a representative from each member jurisdiction, which governs the agency and appoints the general manager. Current members of the district are the Cities of Carmel, Del Rey Oaks, Gonzales, Greenfield, King City, Marina, Monterey, Pacific Grove, Salinas, Sand City, Seaside, Soledad and the County of Monterey.

• ReGen Monterey (Formerly Monterey Regional Waste Management District) Board of Directors - The nine-member ReGen Monterey Board of Directors includes a representative from each of the jurisdictions within its district boundaries, including Monterey, Pacific Grove, Carmel-by-the-Sea, Marina, Sand City, Del Rey Oaks and Seaside, Monterey County District 4, and the Pebble Beach Community Services District. Board members are appointed by their individual jurisdictions for four-year terms. 

• Transportation Agency of Monterey County (TAMC) Board of Directors - The Transportation Agency for Monterey County's Board of Directors is composed of each of the five members of the Monterey County Board of Supervisors, or his or her individually designated alternate, and one member appointed from each incorporated city within Monterey County or his or her designated alternate.

• Tor House Foundation - The Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation, affiliated with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, is a nonprofit organization of volunteer members established in 1978 to acquire, maintain and provide for public access to Tor House, Hawk Tower and the surrounding gardens. 

None for this action.

The City Council routinely appoints members to outside agencies by Resolution at the beginning of each year or as necessary.