AUBURN – The city’s charter commission is cleared to meet, after the City Council made the final three appointments to that board.

Former City Councilor Gerard Dennison, former Mayor Richard Trafton and former city employee Julie Orne will be the last three members of the nine-member commission. Councilors made those selections Monday night, after discussing them in a workshop meeting executive session.

The choices weren’t unanimous, however. Councilor Bob Mennealy said he felt both Dennison and Trafton had too close a relationship to the City Council. Trafton is a partner in Councilor Kelly Matzen’s law firm, Trafton and Matzen, and Dennison helped run Mayor Normand Guay’s campaign for mayor in 2002.

“I thought we should have been making our appointments from other parts of the community,” Mennealy said. “I was not a part of the consensus that selected these members.”

Orne, the third member appointed Monday, worked as a personnel assistant for the city from 1997 through 1999. She also helped coordinate the fund-raising campaign for the Auburn Public Library.

The three City Council appointees join six selected by voters at the polls on Nov. 2. Elected commissioners are John J. Cleveland, David E. Adams, Harry W. Woodard, Chip Morrison, C. Ellen Peters and Edward H. Desgrosseilliers.

The first commission meeting must be scheduled by Dec. 2. The commissioners will work over the next nine months, reviewing the City Charter and recommending changes.