Hopewell City Council approves committee appointments, dissolves Historic Preservation Committee and transfers duties to Architecture Review Board

After a closed session for appointments, the Hopewell City Council approved a slate of council standing-board and commission appointments, confirmed liaison assignments, and voted to dissolve the Historic Preservation Committee and transfer its duties to the Architecture Review Board.

The council convened a closed meeting under Virginia Code § 2.2-3711(a)(1) to discuss board and commission appointments and the performance of specific appointees and employees. After returning to open session and certifying compliance with Virginia Code § 2.2-3712(d), the council announced the appointments by name: Councilor Day and Councilor Harris to the Ethics Committee; Councilor Harris and Councilor Holloway to the Crater Planning District Commission; Councilor Day to CPMT; Vice Mayor Joyner, Councilor Harris, Councilor Stokes and Councilor Holloway to the CDBG committee; Councilor Stokes as the nonvoting HRHA representative; Vice Mayor Joyner as the nonvoting EDA representative; Councilor Ellis to the Water Renewal Commission; councilors Harrison/Holloway to Healthy Families Advisory Board; Councilor Stokes to the MPO; Vice Mayor Joyner to the Chief Local Elected Officials Board; and other standing assignments described in the minutes. The mayor said he would email the full list to councilors.

Council then voted, 6-0, to approve the slate of appointments. Councilors discussed that one appointment to the management commission would be interim, with a citizen appointee to be named later and Councilor Stokes stepping off once the citizen is appointed.

Separately, the council voted 6-0 to dissolve the Historic Preservation Committee and transfer its duties and responsibilities to the Architecture Review Board.

All votes on the appointments slate and committee dissolution were by roll call; no substantive changes to the assignments were reported in open session.