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Richmond City Council continues multiple planning items and votes to enter closed session on appointee performance
Summary
At an informal meeting, the Richmond City Council moved to continue several planning and zoning items to later dates and voted to go into a closed meeting under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act to discuss the performance of a council appointee.
The Richmond City Council at an informal meeting voted to enter a closed meeting under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act to "discuss and consider the performance of a council appointee," after the city clerk outlined numerous planning items that will be continued to later council meetings.
City Clerk read the consent and regular dockets and announced continuances and recommendations from the Planning Commission. "Item 1 ... is to be continued to the June 23 council meeting," the clerk said, and identified multiple other items that will be continued to June 9 and May 27, while noting that several ordinances had received Planning Commission recommendations for approval. The clerk also said items 26 and 27 (budget papers) "will hold a public hearing on those items as amended," and that items 28 through 32 had already had public hearings on April 14.
Following the docket review, a council member moved that the council go into a closed meeting under Subdivision A1 of Section 2.2-3711 of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act to discuss an appointee's performance. Mr. Bridal seconded the motion. The council then took a roll-call vote with the following recorded: Mr. Breton, aye; Miss Gibson, yes; Miss Jones, aye; Vice President Jurden, aye; President Neubile, aye. The motion passed and the council recessed to a conference room for the closed session.
The clerk noted several items had been amended at the April 28 meeting and that some items would be retained on the regular agenda; where ordinance numbers or full descriptions were not provided in the docket reading, the clerk's remarks did not specify further details. Several items were explicitly continued to the June 9 council meeting, one item to June 23, and some to the May 27 meeting pending amendments. The transcript shows no additional debate on the docket items in the portion provided.
The meeting record indicates Councilor Robertson, Councilor Trammell and Councilor Oppenbacher were absent; Ms. Lynch was present in an annex room. The portion of the transcript provided ends with the council entering the closed session; no return-to-open-session actions or further votes appear in the supplied text.
