A move to Columbia Heights won’t stop Peter Sacco from being part of Foggy Bottom’s Advisory Neighborhood Commission.
The recent GW graduate and former ANC commissioner was hired as executive director for the ANC 2A, which covers D.C.’s Foggy Bottom and West End neighborhoods, at a meeting Wednesday night. Sacco recently resigned from his former position as a commissioner because he moved out of Foggy Bottom after his graduation.
Sacco said in an interview the ANC hasn’t had an executive director since 2013. He will perform some of the same roles he had when he served as secretary on the commission, including keeping minutes and web development.
“My goal in the position is really to keep pushing and keep thinking of ways that we can handle the administrative functions of the ANC better,” Sacco said.
He said he will focus on making the ANC more transparent and efficient, specifically by implementing a system of live streaming meetings online. He said that he has heard from several people, including Foggy Bottom Association President Marina Streznewski, that they would be interested in being able to view the meetings online.
Sacco said he still has to work out some legal aspects before he sets up the live stream system through YouTube Live, a program that airs live videos and then saves them for later viewing on YouTube.
“I hope to have it by the next meeting or the meeting after that,” Sacco said. “We have heard from several people that that was something they’d be interested in.”
The former ANC secretary formally resigned from his two-and-a-half-year term as a commissioner on May 18 because he moved out of his GW residence hall and could not continue to be a commissioner because of a district residency requirement. The executive director position does not have a residency requirement.
“The thing I’ve been telling everyone is that I’m not going anywhere and I still want to stay involved in the neighborhood,” Sacco said in an interview after his resignation last month.