Sentence:  The commission , meeting for the first time with both of its newly-appointed commissioners , Roy Webster , of Hood River , and Dr. Ennis Keizer , of North Bend , approved a year 's contract for a consultant in the data processing department who has <WSD>been</WSD> the center of considerable controversy in the past . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  represent, as of a character on stage