Laguna Mayor Will Serve on National Cities Committee

Mayor Robert F. Gentry has been chosen to serve on a National League of Cities committee that will help define the league’s policy on a wide range of issues, including recycling and the use of natural resources.

Gentry’s appointment to the 35-member Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Policy Committee was announced by league president Glenda E. Hood, a city commissioner from Orlando, Fla.

“The committee will have the lead role . . . on national policy issues such as recycling initiatives, federal storm water management requirements and municipal priorities for a national energy policy,” Hood stated in a news release issued by the city of Laguna Beach on Friday. “Our nation’s cities and towns have a direct stake in all of these issues.’

The committee will meet several times in 1992 to study environmental issues and prepare its recommendations. Gentry is also chairman of the League of California Cities Environmental Quality Committee.