Charlottesville City Schools elects Lisa Torres chair, Amanda Burns vice chair; clerks appointed
Summary
At its Jan. 8 meeting the Charlottesville City Schools board elected Lisa Torres as chair and Amanda Burns as vice chair, appointed Leslie Thacker and Julia Green as clerk and deputy clerk, and approved the meeting agenda and consent items by voice vote.
Lisa Torres was elected chair of the Charlottesville City Schools board at the board’s Jan. 8 meeting after a nomination from the floor, a second and a voice vote approving the motion.
The board also elected Amanda Burns as vice chair and approved superintendent-recommended appointments of Leslie Thacker as board clerk and Julia Green as deputy board clerk. All motions reported in the meeting were approved by voice vote with no recorded roll-call tallies provided in the transcript.
The reorganizational votes were taken at the start of the meeting during the annual board reorganization. Board members offered brief supportive remarks after the chair and vice chair nominations; the superintendent and members thanked departing officers and welcomed the newly seated member introduced earlier in the meeting.
The board then approved the meeting agenda and the consent agenda without items pulled for separate discussion. During consent-agenda review staff noted two new grants, including a $23,676 McKinney-Vento subgrant to support students experiencing homelessness; staff described allowed uses including transportation, extracurricular fees, summer school and material supports and said they would provide the count of McKinney-Vento–identified students after checking school-level records.
The meeting proceeded to recognitions and substantive agenda items after these organizational actions.
