At the June 16, 2025 meeting of the Charlottesville City Council, Councilors used for the first time a new system to run meetings.
Longtime observers of City Council might recall that a voting board was on the stage right side of the City Council dais. This displayed how each of the five elected officials voted on matters. That system has now been replaced with a computerized system that displays results on two computer screens.
The system was not working at the beginning of the meeting and so a series of voice votes were taken and entered in manually by City Council Clerk Kyna Thomas.
Afton Schneider, the director of the city communications and public engagement, said the system is an extension of the Civic Plus system that has been in place for a while. After many years of using the old board, it was time to make a change…