City Council

743 The Recessed Meeting of Roanoke City Council was called to order on Wednesday, January 16, 2019 at 10:15 a.m. in the City Council's Conference Room, Room 451, fourth floor, Noel C. Taylor Municipal Building, 215 Church Avenue, S. W., with Mayor Lea presiding. PRESENT: Council Members Joseph L. Cobb, Michelle L. Davis, Djuna L. Osborne, Anita J. Price, William D. Bestpitch and Mayor Sherman P. Lea, Sr.-6. ABSENT: None-0. The Mayor declared the existence of a quorum. OFFICERS PRESENT: RobertS. Cowell, Jr., City Manager; Daniel J. Callaghan, City Attorney; and Stephanie M. Moon Reynolds, City Clerk. The Mayor advised that the purpose of the Recessed Meeting was for the Council to convene in a Closed Meeting to discuss a personnel matter, being the appointment of an Interim Council Member to fill the unexpired term of office of John A. Garland, resigned, ending June 30, 2020. Council Member Davis moved that convene in a Closed Meeting as abovementioned. The motion seconded by Council Member Bestpitch and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Council Members Cobb, Davis, Osborne, Price, Bestpitch and Mayor Lea-6. NAYS: None-0. At 10:16 a.m., the Recessed meeting was declared in recess to reconvene in Closed Meeting in the Council's Conference Room. At 2:00 p.m., the Recessed meeting reconvened in the Council Chamber, with Mayor Lea presiding, and all Members of the Council in attendance. 744 CERTIFICATION OF CLOSED MEETING: With respect to the Closed Meeting just concluded, Vice-Mayor Cobb moved that each Member of City Council certify to the best of his or her knowledge that: (1) only public business matters lawfully exempted from open meeting requirements under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act; and (2) only such public business matters as were identified in any motion by which any Closed Meeting was convened were heard, discussed or considered by City Council. The motion was seconded by Council Member Price and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Council Members Cobb, Davis, Osborne, Price, Bestpitch and Mayor Lea-6. NAYS: None-0. Council Member Price offered the following resolution appointing Patricia White-Boyd as the Interim Council Member: (#41353-011619) A RESOLUTION appointing Patricia White-Boyd as a member of City Council for the City of Roanoke in accordance with §4 of the City Charter and Virginia Code §24.2-228 for a term commencing upon her qualification and expiring on June 30, 2020. (For full text of resolution, see Resolution Book No. 80, page 150.) Council Member Price moved the adoption of Resolution No. 41353-011618. The motion seconded by Vice-Mayor Cobb. Following comments by Council Member Davis voicing her opinion the process to appoint an Interim Council Member, citing a decision warrants more time; and Vice- Mayor Cobb expressed appreciation to the citizens for expressing an interest in the process, Resolution No. 41353-011619 was adopted by the following vote: AYES: Council Members Cobb, Davis, Osborne, Price, Bestpitch and Mayor Lea-6. NAYS: None-0. Mayor Lea congratulated and welcomed Ms. White-Boyd as Interim Council Member.  745 At this point, the Honorable David Carson, Judge, Twenty-third Judicial Circuit, administered the Oath of Office to Ms. White-Boyd as the Interim Council Member to fill the unexpired term of office of John A. Garland, resigned, ending June 30, 2020. There being no further business, the Mayor declared the meeting adjourned at 2:08p.m. APPROVED ATTEST: ~h-). ~~oiJ-v Stephanie M. Moon Reynolds, MMC Sherman P. Lea, Sr. City Clerk Mayor