In its first joint meeting, the Charlottesville City Council and the city’s Police Civilian Oversight Board met Sept. 11 to discuss ordinance changes on office operations and functionality, as well as ordinance clarity.
As Charlottesville Tomorrow reported in August, the board currently doesn’t have enough members to take a vote or even accept past minutes, having lost half its members between May and June and then its executive director in August. The PCOB’s administrative office is currently restricted by ordinance in terms of what it can do without a quorum of board members.
At Thursday’s meeting, James Walker, the PCOB’s acting executive director, presented proposals for ordinance changes that he said would allow the office to service the board and facilitate its work regardless of whether the board has a quorum…