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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- D. The PACH will consist of at least 10 and no more than 15 members.
- E. Two seats will be reserved for youth representation, defined for individuals aged 16 - 24.
- F. PACH members will be appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by Council.
- G. Members will be expected to transcend their individual interests and affiliations to focus on meeting the City’s housing needs.
- 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.
- 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.