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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.
Most Recent Agenda | View Available Minutes | Mural Proposal: "Women in Nature" By Jessica Harron & Megan Parker |
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
- Lisa Swayze, Chair
Term expires December 31, 2020 - Susi C.Y. Li
Term expires December 31, 2020 - Rusty Keeler
Term expires December 31, 2020 - Caroline Byrne
Term expires December 31, 2020 - Ishaan Bakhle
Term expires December 31, 2021 - Maria Thomadaki
Term expires December 31, 2021
- Sean Hillson
Term expires December 31, 2021 - Megan Nettleton
Term expires December 31, 2021 - Joy Das
Term expires December 31, 2021 - Donna Fleming
Common Council Liaison - George McGonigal
Common Council Liaison
You can reach the Community Life Commission at: CL@cityofithaca.org