City councilors will review the process by which members of Concord’s most powerful boards are selected after they unanimously moved to reverse a controversial approval on Monday.

After receiving calls from constituents, councilors sounded the alarm over a new member appointed to the zoning board in June, who the city manager nominated and the City Council approved unanimously. Several said in previous interviews with the Monitor that they hadn’t reviewed the pick beyond her resume and the manager’s endorsement.

Given the zoning board’s power to apply the city’s land use policies, the appointment fueled ongoing conversations among city councilors about reforming the process for sourcing and selecting the people who serve on municipal boards.

Although Mayor Byron Champlin has spoken against calls to change the appointment process, he announced and named an ad-hoc committee that will review the process for quasi-judicial boards – which include the zoning and planning board – at Monday’s council meeting. Any major changes to the process would require an amendment to city ordinances and approval from the full council.

The mayor’s committee announcement and the vote to walk back the appointment both occurred without comment or discussion by the council.

The committee will include Champlin as well as councilors Brent Todd, Nathan Fennessy and Judith Kurtz, who will preside as committee chair.

Catherine McLaughlin can be reached at cmclaughlin@cmonitor.com. You can subscribe to her Concord newsletter The City Beat at concordmonitor.com.