CRB Meeting minutes 1/8/19
Location: City Space
Present: Rosia, Katrina, Guillermo, Gloria, Don, Sarah
Start time: 6:30 (meeting began late)
Chair: Katrina Turner
Minutes: Sarah Burke and Rosia Parker

Welcome:
Don Gathers' resignation

Minutes:
   - Motion to accept the minutes from 12/11/18 meeting
         o Voted to approve: all in favor

Community Matters:
   - Henry McHenry:
        o Proposes "meeting of opposites" between community and Law Enforcement
                The idea is to convert "us against them into common ground"
        o Law enforcement would have to be paid to do this?
                Matt Christianson is a former correctional officer (VA DOC) who said this.
                   This was initially proposed to him
                This would be paid for by Mr. McHenry
        o McHenry: Substitute at Albemarle, Taught two courses at Osher Lifelong
           Learning Institute about meetings of opposites; PhD in English, Language and
           Pedagogy; Former Outward Bound instructor
        o Josh Bowers: perhaps in our bylaws we should include mandates or suggestions
           for meetings like this

   -   Frank Dukes:
          o Gave us a memo on community engagement models
          o Sarah: Maybe we should look into Cincinnati and Baltimore Mediation Centers,
              models, costs, etc for possible future CRB

Community Listening Sessions Discussion:
   - Rosia – working on getting availability for community listening sessions
   - Have taken a break for a while, but getting back into it
   - Outreach conducted:
        o Went into Browns, opened discussion up with them
   - Need to give 2 weeks notice if possible to Frank Dukes so that he can set up facilitators

   -   Community Input from Charlene Green, Dave Chapman, and Kate Fraleigh re: former
       Police Citizen Advisory Panel
           o We need a history lesson on police oversight in Charlottesville. Need to ask City
             for all documents and data Citizen Advisory Panel created and had access to
             from the CPD.
           o David Simmons: Headed up the Citizens Advisory Panel
           o Josh is going to reach out to him to see if he can present to us a history of the
             CAP and where we are now
                  Will ask to come in two meetings, not next meeting if possible

Discussion re: how to communicate to Council
    - Sarah to send first round of emails with questions we would like answered
    - Sarah reviewed possible questions to ask Council
    - Sarah will circulate to group first within a week or so

CRB Resolution:
   - Reading aloud of the portions of the Resolutions related to the bylaws and discussion

Discussion of work flow, writing schedule and plans moving forward:
    - Sarah – motion for Frank Dukes and David Birkenthal to facilitate of our next meeting at
       6 pm, based on NACOLE Guidebook questions to establish our next steps and vision for
       future CRB, seconded by Josh Bowers; All members vote in favor.
    - Sarah will bring recording device and we will try to record and upload

January 22, 2018 meeting rescheduled:
   - Matthew Murphy is going to look into whether we can have our next meeting at 6 pm
       on either January 23, 2019 or January 25, 2019. Will tell us in a couple of days.
   - Location TBD

NACOLE training:
   - Guillermo is going to get an updated proposal from NACOLE
   - We will discuss this at the end of next meeting

Motion to adjorn by Josh, seconded by Rosia, all vote yes. Adjorned at 9:09 pm.