The Mobile City Council hopes to dissolve four citizens advisory committees that they say are defunct.

“These particular committees and commissions had not met in some time, and probably were not necessary anymore,” council member Joel Daves said during the council’s pre-conference meeting.

On Tuesday, the council introduced four ordinances to dissolve the Blue Ribbon Affordable Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization Commission, the Citizens’ Advisory Committee on Contracting Opportunities for Small Business and Minority Owned Firms, the City of Mobile Citizens’ Budget and Finance Advisory Committee and the Public Transit Advisory Committee. The council will vote on the four ordinances next week, but all of the ordinances are sponsored by the entire city council membership.

The council argues that these committees don’t meet regularly and don’t fill the role of an advisory body to the city council anymore. Council Vice President Gina Gregory said during the council’s pre-conference meeting that many of the committees did not have members. There may also be more advisory committees dissolved soon, she said.

Daves said in the pre-conference meeting that an earlier meeting of the council’s Administrative Services committee spurred the dissolution of these committees, and as the council tries to reduce waste, they are looking to the committees.