The Observer, July 2005

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Council switches to three meetings a year

Since its earliest days, the citizens’ council board has met four times a year. But no more: at its May meeting in Valdez, the board voted to adopt a new schedule of only three full meetings a year.

The first two meetings of each year will occur in late January in Anchorage and in early May in Valdez. The third meeting will rotate among the council’s other member communities and will take place in mid-September.

The next three meetings are scheduled as follows:

Sept. 15-16, 2005: Seward
Jan. 26-27, 2006: Anchorage
May 4-5, 2006: Valdez

The board made the change to reduce the cost and staff time required to prepare for and conduct board meetings. Each meeting requires hundreds of hours of staff work, as well as thousands of dollars in travel and lodging costs for staff, board and committee members who attend.