To ALL Potential Applicants:
Outline your presentation of Qualifications, Stress your connections to the community, Dress the part of a professional manager/policy maker, and certainly, Do let the Council know you do volunteer, you do attend city meetings and/or you do read the Council Agendas and you do review the adopted Minutes on the website----
In short, show that you are an active, ethical, responsible, and concerned member of the Pacific Body Politic!
Especially important:
Outline your skills, be they organizing your child’s sports team, working with your faith community’s finance or other committee, doing outreach with Veterans (bonus points there), or working on Community Service projects with a service club or as a volunteer.
Think about what you believe. Are you about reducing the tax burden, having equitable government, providing only the most basic of services, enabling responsible financial management of city resources, fixing streets, being left to ones’ own devices, recreation for youth, social services for seniors, community policing, or what? What is your Vision for the Government of Pacific, and for the residents and businesses of Pacific... Should it Stay the same or change?
put your thoughts together.
Let them know you WILL do your home work, will read the Agendas, will come to meetings prepared, and will contribute your point of view as a city resident and voter.
Remember to tell the Council that you will do your best to guide Pacific through our world’s changing times (and perhaps with tolerance for others, with humor, good will, and compassion.)
And before you even start your application, Do go online and read the City of Pacific Municipal Code. It covers the basics about the role and responsibilities of a small city, and the role of its Council to make policy.
For more in-depth interpretation of state law, regarding a city, go to the Municipal Research Corporation of Washington page:
http://mrsc.org/Home.aspx
If you see references to the Revised Code of Washington, with which the State Legislature enacted laws governing City governments, start here:
http://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?Cite=35
In Sept 2015 there was a vacancy created by the resignation of John Jones Jr., due to poor health. Appointment interviews of 7 applicants were scheduled for the September 8 2015 Council Workshop.
Here is the link to Part One of that workshop on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2rH86avlGY
The Interviews were posted separately, starting with 9 8 15 Workshop Part 2
The following week, on September 14, 2015, an appointment was made. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMSblKTUyUo
