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Clifton council approves remote-meeting resolution, appoints mayor as emergency director
Summary
The Clifton Town Council voted unanimously May 6 to adopt a resolution authorizing remote electronic meetings during the COVID-19 emergency and appointed Mayor Bill Hollaway as the Town’s Director of Emergency Management. The action followed statutory authorization under Virginia Code § 15.2-1413.
The Clifton Town Council voted unanimously May 6 to adopt a resolution permitting remote electronic meetings during the COVID-19 state of emergency and appointed Mayor Bill Hollaway as Director of Emergency Management.
Mayor Bill Hollaway called the electronic meeting to order and introduced the Resolution, citing the Town’s Emergency Uncodified Ordinance and Virginia Code § 15.2-1413 as authority for conducting the meeting by Zoom. Council members then approved a motion to add the Resolution to the agenda and approved the Resolution by roll-call vote; each of the six members present — Hollaway, Poe, Effros, Milne, Hinderstein and McDonald — was recorded as "Aye."
The council also approved a motion, by roll-call vote, appointing Hollaway to the position of Director of Emergency Management. No member opposed either motion.
The council explained that the electronic format was intended to ensure continuity of government during the COVID-19 emergency and to allow the public to observe via teleconferencing. The clerk provided access instructions for members of the public who requested them.
The council’s formal votes and the statutory citation frame the town’s legal authority to conduct remote meetings and take emergency-related actions while the pandemic restrictions remain in effect. The council did not at this meeting set a sunset date for the Resolution; further procedural or policy details on remote participation were not specified in the motions approved at the meeting.
