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Boulder oversight panel debates limits on special meetings, eyes role in 5-year ordinance review
Summary
Panel members and legal staff discussed whether the panel can meet outside regular meetings, how meetings with the chief should be characterized, and the timing and procedure for the city manager's statutorily required 5-year system review. Panel members agreed to keep the topic on the next agenda and requested more detail about the city manager's
Panel members debated whether three-panel-member requests to meet outside a regular meeting would be allowed under the ordinance and Colorado open meeting law, and discussed next steps for the city manager's five-year evaluation of the civilian oversight system.
"We got, the city manager is willing to meet either in groups of 2 or individually to discuss whatever," Chico, a panel member, said during the discussion about how to handle the special-meeting request. The panel had sought legal guidance after three members requested a special meeting; city staff told the co-chairs the request raised open-meetings issues.
Why it matters: the panel's ability to convene affects its internal governance and its capacity to respond quickly to member concerns about communication and process. The ordinance that created the oversight…
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