LAGUNA NIGUEL : City Officials Review Boards’ Applicants

City officials are reviewing applications and scheduling interviews to fill vacant positions on eight city commissions, committees and review boards.

On Dec. 31, those 30 seats, including two on the Planning Commission and three on the Environmental Review Board, will become vacant. Throughout the month of January, the five council members will be interviewing applicants and voting on each appointment. Each seat has a two-year term.

City officials have decided to extend the terms of the two incumbent planning commissioners and three incumbent Environmental Review Board members until those panels complete the approval process for ongoing development projects.

Those boards “are right in the middle of reviewing projects,” said Kari Sander, deputy city clerk. “They don’t want to disrupt that and will keep the same panel until February.”

Officials will be appointed to seats of those two commissions probably in February, Sander said.

In addition to the Planning Commission and Environmental Review Board, officials will be appointed to fill the Parks and Recreation Commission, Traffic and Transportation Commission, Senior Citizens Committee, Sports Advisory Committee, Special Events Committee and the Public Safety/Emergency Preparedness Committee.

Interviews for those panels will be held Jan. 12, 20 and 26 in the conference room at City Hall, 27801 La Paz Road.

The deadline for filing applications was in November.

The interviews are open to the public and will begin at either 6:30 or 7 p.m. For more information, call City Hall at (714) 362-4300.