Brenda Piccati was elected chair of the Civil Service Commission at the board’s regular meeting on Aug. 11, 2025, and Commissioner Tennyson was elected vice chair; both leadership elections were approved by unanimous roll-call votes. The commission also approved the meeting agenda and the minutes from its May 12, 2025, meeting in a single consent motion.

The leadership votes are procedural but set who will preside over the commission’s hearings and personnel-related decisions for the coming year. Commissioners said they wanted to complete nominations at the Aug. 11 meeting rather than postpone to the next month.

The meeting opened with a roll call and a short period to address technical difficulties. When nominations began, Commissioner Brenda Piccati offered herself for chair, saying, "I'll volunteer to be chair. This is Brenda Piccati." A subsequent motion to select Piccati as chair carried on a unanimous roll call. Commissioners Sostrich, Tennyson, Yannick, Wright and the other commissioners recorded “yes” votes during the roll call.

After the chair vote, commissioners nominated and voted for vice chair. Commissioner Tennyson was nominated and the motion to elect Tennyson as vice chair passed on a unanimous roll call. Immediately following the leadership elections, the commission took one consent motion to approve the agenda for the Aug. 11 meeting and to adopt the minutes of the May 12, 2025 regular meeting; that consent motion also passed unanimously.

There was no substantive debate recorded on either the leadership nominations or the consent calendar. The record shows commissioners thanked outgoing leaders for service and confirmed the one-year term for chair before voting. The meeting then moved on to the action calendar.