Commissioner Shams DaBaron raises concerns about community board appointees sometimes lacking genuine community connection and asks Catherine Vaughn how the charter might address this. Vaughn suggests exploring entirely different models for community participation beyond the current board structure, such as citizen assemblies based on random selection, which might yield more representative input.

• Vaughn proposes looking at alternative democratic participation models.
• Examples include grand jury-style random selection or citizen assemblies.
• These models aim for broader, more representative input compared to current CB meeting dynamics.