Standing Committee Code of Conduct

The City Council values the role the Town’s standing committees serve in providing advice to the Council. In effort to promote consistency in protocols among all committees the City Manager identified the need to review the current standing committee resolution and the code of conduct for committee members.

To assist with the review, a consultant (MRG) was engaged to work with the City Manager and City Clerk. MRG has experience working in the areas of City governance and has knowledge of best practices for municipal advisory committees. MRG proposed committee protocols for the City Manager and City Clerk to consider with the goal of establishing consistent practices among the City’s committees and to provide clear expectations regarding the roles and responsibilities for committee members. These changes were proposed to be adopted by Council by updating the Standing Committee Resolution.

At the October 20, 2022, City Council meeting, staff introduced the proposed changes to the Standing Committee Resolution as a listening session and welcomed comments from the public. The City Council moved to continue the item to a future meeting to allow staff time to gather further comments from the public. The video can be viewed below.

The meeting was designed to be a listening session and come back in the future to collect and respond to comments into the New Standing Resolution and the Code of Conduct.

The staff assembled the proposed Standing Resolution and Code of Conduct from two documents that we have been operating from as well as best practices we have collected from other cities that have a similar system of valued volunteers that make up standing committees.

Click on the imbedded video below to watch the discussion at the October 20, 2022 City Council Meeting when this item was initially discussed. The discussion runs from 31:30 minutes through 1:22:50 into the video.

To submit comments, questions, or suggestions to staff regarding this topic please email:

standingresolution@losaltoshills.ca.gov