Council Committee Discussions on 2025-08-04 6:00 PM - Aug 04, 2025

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What agenda items are introduced at the start of the Council Committee meeting?

Vi Lyles 0:00

And be happy about what you're doing. But we are now back at the work. Today's meeting, Monday, August the 4th, and we are going to have two opportunities for brief remarks for One, I wanted to talk about me and this idea that we are talking about because I really want to make sure that we revisit the memo that I sent out to last week regarding some suggested changes for the council meeting. I know that many people sent back things that they wanted to do, and we've added those to some of our lists. But I think that if you have additional comments, please let us know what they are and what we can do so that we can put everything together. So, with that. Let's start off with having a roll call, and we'll start with Ms.

Vi Lyles 0:53

Brown. Oh, you're never off

Victoria Watlington 0:58

guard.

Vi Lyles 0:58

I am.

Victoria Watlington 0:58

Introductions, though? Introductions.

How does the council conduct the roll‑call and member introductions?

Victoria Watlington 1:02

Hello, everybody. It's an honor to serve at District 3, Tijuana Brown. Thank you. Good evening. Victoria Watlington, Council Member-at-Large. Edwin Peacock, City Council, District 6. Ed Driggs, District 7.

Malcolm Graham 1:14

Malcolm Graham, District 2. Marcus Jones, City Manager.

Vi Lyles 1:17

By Liles, Mayor. Dante Anderson, Mayor Pro Tem, District 1. Good evening, Dimple Archmira,

Renee Johnson 1:23

at large.

James Mitchell 1:23

Good evening, James Mitchell, at large.

What feedback was requested on the revised council meeting approach?

Renee Johnson 1:25

Good evening, Renee Johnson, and I'm honored to serve District 4.

James Mitchell 1:30

Anthony Fox, Interim City Attorney.

Vi Lyles 1:33

Ariel Smith, Lead City Clerk. Okay, thank you, everyone. The city attorney has advised me that our executive session this evening is to discuss the city attorney hiring process, and that might take us a very long time, several hours. After getting agreement from the committee chairs that were with us during this morning and all of you that were in a committee, that they have been gracious enough to say that let's go ahead and deal with this one issue right now instead of going and trying to take off what we did with the other committee. So we'll have my understanding is that the staff and the committee chairs will have written documents for all of the committee discussions that we had. So I think that's where we are, and I think that we're trying really hard to maintain this process and the time that we're doing this to have this go as well as a meeting.

Vi Lyles 2:32

And so we are going to now move towards a closed session for, unless there's some comments. Are there any comments or questions from the council? So Ms. Anderson just reminded me that I should talk about the document that I sent out. And so what I really wanted to just say, I've received the feedback from some of you about the revised council meeting approach.

How are the proposed framework and draft recommendations being reviewed?

Vi Lyles 3:07

And my goal is to advance some of these things in August to help address some of the issues and concerns that we can work better by. So my recommendation is that we give this a try next month, or month, and if council wants to take additional steps, we can discuss those at our August business meeting as we go forward. Any questions about that? Ms. Johnson?

Renee Johnson 3:31

Thank you, Madam Mayor. A couple months back, we decided that you and I were going to work together to come up with some recommendations. So these recommendations, I know we've had one meeting. but these recommendations were sort of a surprise so i wanted to know what's the plan uh for our meetings moving forward is this is in is this temporary or where are we

Vi Lyles 3:55

well i had meetings with a number of the council members some people could do it some people couldn't make it possible So what I say going forward is now we have a draft of a framework. And so now I'm looking for any other comments to come back from this framework that we've already had. And so that's why I'm asking for any feedback that you want to have as a result of the email coming out. So, all right.

Why is the council moving into a closed‑session to discuss the city attorney hiring?

Vi Lyles 4:22

Mr. Graham.

Malcolm Graham 4:24

Thank you, Madam Mayor. Without going, I did respond to your email and CC to all the council members. I just feel that we're falling short, and I'll just let the email speak for itself.

Vi Lyles 4:37

Well, I appreciate that. I read your email, and so I would love to have a conversation with you about some of the remarks that were in it. Thank you. Anyone else? All right. So we are.

Victoria Watlington 4:48

So madam mayor with this, what are we proceeding to do?