City Commissions Have Open Advisory Positions

The lists job opportunities on their website, and there are a couple currently available you might want to know about.

No, these are not paying jobs, but the opportunity to work with  the city on advisory boards is a great opportunity to share your appreciation for the community in a meaningful way – and build your resume why you’re at it.

One is to fill three vacancies on the City’s Sister Cities Relations Committee, for a term which expires on December 31, 2012. Current Rohnert Park residents are eligible to apply.

The purpose of the Rohnert Park Sister Cities Relations Committee is to foster international understanding and friendship through exchanges of people, artifacts and ideas with citizens of foreign cities and to develop an increased appreciation of cultural diversity in order to better understand one's own culture. Rohnert Park's sister city is Hashimoto, Japan.

Also, the city council is seeking applications from Rohnert Park residents 60 years of age or older to fill one current vacancy on the City’s Senior Citizens Advisory Commission for a two-year term expiring December 31, 2012.

The Senior Citizens Advisory Commission advises the City Council and the City Manager on all matters relating to policies and programs which will serve all senior citizens of the Rohnert Park community. Applicants for Senior Citizens Advisory Commission must be at least 60 years old.

 “The role of all such boards, commissions, and committees is to make recommendations to the City Council on matters affecting the City of Rohnert Park,” according to interim city clerk Carol Adams. “Except as otherwise provided in state or local law, commissions and committees have no independent role separate and apart from their role as advisory to the City Council.”

Additional vacancies on advisory boards may be decided at the on Jan. 8, and will be announced on the city’s website on Jan.12.