Community Life Commission

Meetings

Regular meetings are held on the third Monday of each month at 6:00 p.m. in Common Council Chambers, 3rd floor, City Hall, 108 E. Green Street, 108 E. Green Street, Ithaca, NY 14850.  If a meeting should fall on a nationally recognized holiday when city offices are closed, the meeting may take place the following Thursday at the same time and in the same location.

Agenda & Minutes

Agendas are available on the Thursday prior to the meeting.  Minutes are posted upon approval by the Commission.

Overview & Duties

The Community Life Commission is charged with providing Common Council and the appropriate committees thereof, the City’s quasi-judicial boards, and City staff with advisory research, public input, and analysis for matters related to:

• Art and public art in Ithaca, including public art displays, programs, and exhibitions.
• Rental housing, including the accessibility, affordability, and quality of rental housing, tenant’s rights, and such other matters.
• Youth and youth development.
• Issues impacting Ithaca’s most vulnerable communities, including refugee, immigrant, and elderly communities.
• Issues related to the college and graduate student populations of, and the administrations of, local institutions of higher education, including Cornell University, Ithaca College, and Tompkins Cortland Community College. 
• Issues of concern to Ithaca’s lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender, and queer communities
• Diversity and the importance of diversity in Ithaca
• Sustainability, food and food systems, and environmental remediation and contamination.

The Commission is also charged with serving as a means of engaging in community outreach and receiving community input on the above-described subject matter in a manner consistent with the diversity, accessibility, and sustainability goals of the City and in conjunction with all appropriate Commissions, as necessary, to achieve such goals.

Members