Christine Schadlich comes recommended by Kelley, Herrod
The next meeting of the Healdsburg Planning Commission will be Tuesday, Oct. 14, and it’s expected that for the first time in months, there will be a seventh member seated.
Hidden Acres resident Christine Schadlich was warmly nominated by Councilmembers Ariel Kelley and Chris Herrod at Monday’s City Council meeting, and confirmed without any further discussion or comment.
Kelley spoke of Schadlich as “one of the applicants who really stood out for us as someone who not only will represent the city with a great kind of professionalism, and is also well-versed in a lot of the existing projects that will be coming before the Commission, with some of the land-use issues.” Such attention to detail is not always found in applicants for an open position in any field.
Kelley continued, “I feel, we feel confident and were unanimous and it was clear that we think Christine Schadlich would be a great addition to the Planning Commission.”
Herrod backed up the judgment with his own, “It was pretty clear that she will be able to hit the ground running and make a lot of wise and meaningful contributions to the Planning Commission.”
Reached after the meeting, Schadlich said, “I am excited about the appointment and look forward to working with the Commission.”
Her expertise will be tested at the next Planning Commission meeting, for which the agenda is already online. “I will be active, but expect I will do more listening as it’s my first meeting,” the new commissioner said.
There were seven applicants for the Planning Commission’s seat in all, the application period having been extended. Only five went through the interviews with Kelley and Herrod, as two dropped out prior to that stage.
Both council members encouraged those who had applied to “try again” since there is often a need for interested and qualified applicants for city commissions, committees and other citizen bodies.
In the next order of business, the council looked at the open seat applications for the Arts and Culture Commission, which had been accepting applications until Sept. 11 for the remainder of the term that runs through Jan. 1, 2028.
Only two people applied, but the council chose not to keep the application period open any longer and agreed on Ron Edwards and David Hagele to conduct the interviews. They are expected to make recommendations to the full City Council at the Oct. 20 meeting on the best qualified candidate to fill the position.
