Members of the Good Neighbor Plan Advisory Committee have been told transparency comes with numbers – so they added three new members at a Monday night meeting.
The group, which previously had 19 members and a facilitator, was formed by the Inter-Faith Council to address resident concerns about the new homeless shelter to be built on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
It has been criticized by town residents, led by Mark Peters, spokesman of abettersite.org, for not representing all community interests.
The Chapel Hill Town Council recommended the committee increase it size to ensure transparency, so new members were chosen from a pool of five applicants.
Jason Kirk, a Northwood resident, and Kathy Murray and Tina Coyne Smith from Parkside were added to the committee.
The committee resolved to offer a fourth seat to Peters.
Peters had already declined the position in July because the IFC would not allow electronic recordings of its meetings.
“We are very sensitive to our participation and our intentions being co-opted and misrepresented,” Peters wrote in a July email to Chris Moran, executive director of the IFC.
Moran said the IFC would select another applicant to add to the committee if Peters declines the seat again.