Health Council recommends once-yearly onboarding to County Council
Members also heard a Community Health Action Center site briefing; no site vote was taken.
LOS ALAMOS — The Los Alamos County Health Council voted Thursday to recommend that County Council fill the council's seats once a year, with applications in June, interviews in July and new members starting together in August (@1:00:32).
The meeting opened with a briefing from Lloyd and Associates and Public Works on three candidate sites for a Community Health Action Center — 1000 Sombrillo Court, 1990 Diamond Drive and 3540 Orange Avenue — and a building program of roughly 16,000 to 17,000 square feet (@00:00). Members discussed the sites but took no vote on them.
Members then discussed recommending that the council shrink from 15 members to 11 by attrition, with no new appointments once membership reaches 11 (@29:41).
Under the onboarding proposal, agenda item 22353-26, applications would be accepted June 1 to 30, terms would run two years from County Council appointment, and a seat that opens mid-year would stay vacant until the next June. Current members could still reapply for terms they are eligible for. The motion dropped the agenda's call for an ordinance, sending the change to County Council as a recommendation, and it passed on a roll-call vote (@1:01:57).