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3.38.040 Membership.

City Code Section
  1. A. Membership on the PACH should balance professional and lived experience and reflect the socio-economic, gender, racial, ethnic, cultural, and geographic diversity of the City. Individual committee member backgrounds may include some or many of these experiences and identities.
  2. B. Professional expertise includes (1) housing policy and mixed-income housing models, (2) affordable housing development, preservation, and financing, and (3) landlord tenant law, fair housing, and property management.
  3. C. Lived experience includes housing instability, eviction, neighborhood displacement, fair housing violations, identification with a community population that has been historically disenfranchised, marginalized, or excluded from public engagement, processes, and benefits.
  4. D. The PACH will consist of at least 10 and no more than 15 members.
  5. E. Two seats will be reserved for youth representation, defined for individuals aged 16 - 24.
  6. F. PACH members will be appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by Council. 
  7. G. Members will be expected to transcend their individual interests and affiliations to focus on meeting the City’s housing needs. 
  8. H. Members will serve without compensation. However, the City may authorize reimbursement of the reasonable expenses of the members for carrying out the work of the PACH.
  9. I. The PACH will adopt rules of procedure and bylaws for the governance of its proceedings, which must be approved as to form by the City Attorney.
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