This year, Mayor Bob Foster and his staff have taken a proactive approach. Names to fill Charter Commission seats were forwarded two weeks ago to the Personnel and Civil Service Committee, allowing those recommendations to be heard the same night as the list of other appointments.

Charter appointments approved include three to the Citizen Police Complaint Commission — Charlotte Roush as a new commissioner and Dan Cartagena and Wilma Powell to second terms. Gerry Good and Charles Hicks were appointed to the Civil Service Commission, Albert Guerra and Sarah Tong Sangmeister were reappointed to the Parks and Recreation Commission, along with Ron Antonette as a new appointee there, and Julie Heggeness was named to the Redevelopment Agency board.