Board debates attendance and removal rules in draft bylaws, members call for flexibility
Members reviewed two alternate attendance/removal drafts: one with clerk-administered thresholds, one with enumerated excused reasons. Several members urged emergency exceptions, protections for privacy, and caution so attendance rules do not exclude representative members.
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The Community Board for Police Accountability spent the largest portion of the meeting debating draft bylaws on attendance and removal. Staff presented two options: a version that sets objective thresholds (for example, 4 consecutive absences or 8 excused absences in a calendar year) and a version that lists allowable excused reasons with the clerk deciding whether an absence is excused.
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