Special CRB Meeting
CRB Meeting minutes:          5/14/19 (start time: 6:48 p.m.; ending time 8:14 p.m.)
Location:                     City Council Basement
Present:                      Gloria Beard, Sarah Burke, Josh Bowers, Katrina Turner, Rosia
                              Parker
Chair:                        Rosia Parker
Absent:                       Guillermo Ubilla
Minutes:                      Josh Bowers



   •     Welcome & Introductions:

            o Rosia welcomed the public, on behalf of the board.

   •     Community Input:

            o There was a bit of kerfuffle, as a woman from Albemarle took the mic to spout
              racist nonsense. After allowing her to have the floor for a few minutes, the Chair
              told her that she needed to step down. The Chair restored order.

            o Don Gathers commended the Board for its remarks in response to the racist
              individual, and condemned her remarks himself.

            o Walt Heineke commended the CRB and explained that he thinks City Council is
              coming around. Walt articulated the need for the Board to keep pushing for
              independence.

   •     Review and approval of minutes from 5/1/19:

            o Minutes approved by a unanimous vote.

   •     Old business:

            o No old business.

   •     New Business:

            o Board members discussed the City Council’s special session from earlier this
              afternoon. John Blair indicated that the Board should do what it can to separate
              its recommendation into bylaws, ordinance language, and policy language—but


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          that it won’t be a major problem if something ends up in the wrong place. John
          Blair can work it out later.

       o Board members decided it would crib language about the privacy of juvenile
         records from the Fairfax bylaws.

       o Board members discussed keeping its May private meetings with the Chief to
         discuss a future MOU, with the understanding that the next CRB will need to
         craft an MOU, and we want to provide them with guidance to that end.

       o Board members decided that we are going to keep some, but not all, of the
         selection criteria to create a representative Board (that is, when it comes to
         selection of new Board members). The Board also decided that we should
         recommend that “at least four Board members” should be members of the
         selection committee for future boards.

       o Sarah and Josh will discuss the auditor role and whether it is duplicative of the
         new data role internal to the CPD. Alternatively, we also discussed the
         possibility that we recommend that the new CPD position be taken out of the
         CPD and put under the City Manager, to make it an independent position.

       o In terms of a two-track investigative model, we discussed the possibility of two
         separate triggers for triggering an independent investigation—first, a time
         trigger; and, second, a super-majority vote when the Board concludes that IA
         process has been inadequate. We may just end up drafting language that a
         majority of ALL the voting Board members can trigger an independent
         investigation (as opposed to our normal voting rule, which requires only a
         majority of a quorum).

•   Adjournment:

       o The Board adjourned by unanimous vote.




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