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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> TIMOTHY CRAIG </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">MEDLEY</span></b></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">ARRESTED AND PRESUMED INNOCENT FOR HITTING AND KILLING A MAN WHILE IMPAIRED, THEN FLEEING THE SCENE. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A Mecklenburg County Magistrate assigned bond of only $2500 UNsecured (meaning a signature promise he would pay that much if he doesn't show up for court to face charges) and $5000 each secured bond for felony charges of death by vehicle and hit & run causing death. That secured bond of $5000 usually means payment of only 10-15% of the amount, or about $500 each, to secure release from jail after being found with his car smashed in and apparently impaired and on a street near the man who was killed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Just what kind of bond references are Magistrates using? Are there any guidelines?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you're wondering, he 'bonded out' three hours after his arrest. The sun wasn't even up yet. One wonders if three hours was long enough for a person to sober up, if in fact they are impaired. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Citynewswatch</span></b> sends a special thank you to the gentleman who was paying attention to the world and people around him, noticed the person walking at the side of the road as he left for the store, noticed a banged up car on a side street on his way home, and searched for the walker. While it's sad that he found the shoe and located the crime victim, it would be more sad if that person had been left alone in the cold night and a nobody went to help him, report the crime, or tell his family and friends what happened. Peace to him and those that helped.</span><br />
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Mecklenburg Co. Sheriff:<br />
Ref: Charge/Court: ORD/Bond Type/County Case/CSL Disp<br />
001 540500 / 1150A REL / <span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>2500 UNS</b></span> / 17CR244016 B<br />
Date: 11/24/2017 09:00 AM Description: <span style="background-color: yellow;">DRIVING WHILE IMPAIRED</span><br />
002 540600 / 1150A REL / <span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>5000 SEC </b></span>/ 17CR244017 B<br />
Date: 11/24/2017 09:00 AM Description: <span style="background-color: yellow;">DEATH BY VEHICLE - FELONY</span><br />
003 470800 / 1150A REL / <span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>5000 SEC</b></span> / 17CR244018 B<br />
Date: 11/24/2017 09:00 AM Description: <span style="background-color: yellow;">FEL HIT/RUN SER INJ/DEATH</span><br />
SENTENCES<br />
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Arrest #:<br />
01738474 PID:<br />
0000188763 JID:<br />
17-095501 DOB:<br />
11/24/1972<br />
Race/Sex:<br />
CAU/M<br />
Height:<br />
508"<br />
Address:<br />
CHARLOTTE NC 28278<br />
Alias:<br />
Status:<br />
STATE INMATE<br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;">Housing:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;">Not Active</span><br />
By:<br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;">Commited:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;">11/23/2017 <b>2:37 AM</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;">Released:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;">11/23/2017 <b>5:42 AM</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">see this entire story BY JOE MARUSAK from The Charlotte Observer <a href="http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/crime/article186248833.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>: </span><br />
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Driver saw shoe on dark Charlotte road. What he did next led to an arrest.<br />
BY JOE MARUSAK<br />
jmarusak@charlotteobserver.com<br />
NOVEMBER 23, 2017 04:14 PM<br />
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A driver saw a shoe on a dark Charlotte road late Wednesday. What he did next made all the difference in helping police find a hit-and-run suspect.<br />
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The driver on Shopton Road West in southwest Charlotte had earlier been heading to a store when he saw a man walking on the side of the road, according to police.<br />
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The driver, whom police have not identified, spotted the shoe when he was returning from the store. On nearby Pilcher Drive, he also saw a parked 2006 Kia Sorento with lots of damage, police said.<br />
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He realized the man he’d seen earlier might have been hit by the car, so he immediately returned to the scene and found the victim lying in grass off the right side of the road.<br />
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Then the driver called 911.<br />
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The pedestrian, 49-year-old Michael James Denny, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police.<br />
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Thanks to the driver who found Denny and called 911, police arrested 44-year-old Timothy Craig Medley of Charlotte and charged him with driving while impaired, felony death by vehicle and felony hit and run. Medley is free on $12,500 bail.<br />
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Police said Medley was driving north on Shopton Road West from South Tryon Street when Denny was hit while walking in the 16200 block. That stretch of Shopton Road West is not lit with overhead street lights and has no sidewalks on either side, according to police.<br />
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Police said they arrested Medley after they interviewed him and found him to be impaired.<br />
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“The witness in this case was instrumental to the quick apprehension of the suspect,” police said in a statement early Thursday. “Without his willingness to become involved, it is doubtful that the victim would have been located tonight and the suspect may have escaped justice.”<br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>From MeckSheriff.com :</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>https://mecksheriffweb.mecklenburgcountync.gov Inmate search</b></span><br />
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CHARGES<br />
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Ref: Charge/Court: ORD/Bond Type/County Case/CSL Disp<br />
001 540500 / 1150A REL / <span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>2500 UNS</b></span> / 17CR244016 B<br />
Date: 11/24/2017 09:00 AM Description: <span style="background-color: yellow;">DRIVING WHILE IMPAIRED</span><br />
002 540600 / 1150A REL / <span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>5000 SEC </b></span>/ 17CR244017 B<br />
Date: 11/24/2017 09:00 AM Description: <span style="background-color: yellow;">DEATH BY VEHICLE - FELONY</span><br />
003 470800 / 1150A REL / <span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>5000 SEC</b></span> / 17CR244018 B<br />
Date: 11/24/2017 09:00 AM Description: <span style="background-color: yellow;">FEL HIT/RUN SER INJ/DEATH</span><br />
SENTENCES<br />
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Ref:<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Case:<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>CSL<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>CNS<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Begin<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>YY<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Min MM<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>DD<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>YY<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>MAX MM<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>DD<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>TP<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Earn<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Cred<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>END<br />
001<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>17CR244016<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
002<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>17CR244017<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
003<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>17CR244018<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"><br /></span>citynewswatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09166768367697949546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684274417834349897.post-80094189701601537832017-05-14T00:02:00.000-04:002017-05-14T00:10:02.424-04:00City of Charlotte & Crystal Eschert: Not a "Social Media Policy" Problem<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This week, in Charlotte's Federal Courthouse, a jury got it right--thanks to the fortitude of former City of Charlotte Fire Inspector Crystal Eschert and her attorney, Meg Maloney (Margaret Behringer Maloney--founding member of <span style="color: blue;"><b><a href="http://www.maloneylegal.com/Firm-Overview.shtml" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px;">Maloney Law & Associates, PLLC</a> </b></span> ). They won a $1.5 Million lawsuit after Ms. Eschert was unjustly fired in retaliation for reporting unsafe conditions in a Fire building under renovation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The City of Charlotte tried without success to claim it fired Eschert because she made a private Facebook post which used the word "thug" to describe someone doing criminal conduct--while specifically saying race must not be a factor in judging a person's conduct. The City turned that statement into some kind of potential racially-charged-riot-inducing inflammatory statement which was allegedly inflaming the passions and sensitivities of all of Charlotte and the surrounding areas (or something like that) in such a way that would also make it impossible for this (celebrity?) fire inspector to check the aftermath of fires throughout our land because of the notoriety of this single, anti-racism, privately-posted, Facebook post which one anonymous person wrote to Fire Chief John Hannon and Police Chief Rodney Monroe to complain about....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"LindaHavery@yahoo.com" sent an email complaint to the chiefs, but nobody can locate any person attached to that email address. It may be that the City hasn't tried very hard to locate the source of the email. One wonders if they asked Fire Chief John Hannon if he sent it. Of course, when the City Manager asked John Hannon if he had previously leaked an employee record, he lied about it. Then it was discovered and he admitted it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Before the now-infamous Facebook posting and "LindaHavery@yahoo.com" email's frantic complaints about it, Eschert had reported safety concerns at the fire station office building, from possible black mold and water leaking to exposed electrical wires and a long list of other dangers--at the building for people who are supposed to inspect for and correct those things at all of our other buildings. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But the Chief in charge of that building and the safety of all of its employees was exposed. And probably angry. That's what the jury found. He fired Crystal Eschert not because of a social media policy violation, but because of RETALIATION. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This decision exposes the culture of severe retaliation in the City of Charlotte that needs to be scrubbed and destroyed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Congratulations to Ms. Eschert and Ms. Maloney, as well as U.S. District Frank Whitney who didn't fall for the City's song and dance on dismissal claims and therefore let the case move forward. Good for the jury, who saw through a ridiculous cover story and did the right thing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There are some final arguments to make before an Order is entered, but we can hope it stands as the jury intended.</span><br />
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citynewswatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09166768367697949546noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684274417834349897.post-7092222388641835312016-11-14T16:41:00.000-05:002016-11-15T15:39:03.241-05:00More Pretend Accountability from Charlotte City Council<div class="MsoNormal">
Charlotte’s City Council is on the same train: pretend to do
something that will improve police conduct and accountability, spend a ton of
our money to do it, call it ‘mission accomplished’ and pat themselves on the
back for a harmonious, diverse city.
Nothing to see here. Move along.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sound familiar? Well,
there’s a reason for that. At tonight’s
City Council Meeting, they will vote to approve $380K to pay the POLICE
FOUNDATION to consult and review “<span style="line-height: 107%;">the
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department’s policies, procedures, and its
relationship with the community.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Doesn’t that sound nice? What is your confidence level any real change
or accountability will happen? Wait—before
you answer that question, did you know who the Police Foundation has acquired
as their latest part of a “highly qualified team with extensive expertise and experience
in police-community relations; critical incident review, best practice in
policing and law enforcement operations, use of force, implicit bias, and
specialized police responses to people with mental illness; problem-oriented
policing and internal investigations?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">RODNEY MONROE!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">That’s right, our own former Police
Chief Rodney Monroe, who lied about having the required degree in Criminal
Justice to get his job, lied about knowing about misconduct by Marcus Jackson
(the former CMPD officer who drove around in uniform pulling over and sexually
assaulting women) until Monroe’s signature on documents was leaked… then lied
again until a second signature by Monroe was leaked…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Monroe, who exclaimed a man was “viciously
knocking” on a door at 2:30 a.m., then changed course and charged Officer
Kerrick within hours, then fled town like a coward before the trial…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Monroe, who has a terrible history of
treating officers and citizens with zero accountability…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Monroe is the Police Foundations
latest shining example of a “highly qualified team” that City Council will claim
is bringing an <b>OUTSIDE, IMPARTIAL VIEW</b> to CMPD.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Great. Surely, this will be money well spent.<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">City Council Agenda Item for tonight, 11/14/2016<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">28. Police
Foundation Consulting Services</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Action:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Approve a contract in the amount of $379,504 with the Police
Foundation for consulting services focused on reviewing the
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department’s policies, procedures, and its
relationship with the community, and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;">B.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Authorize the City Manager to approve price adjustments and amend
the contract consistent with the City’s business needs and the purpose for
which the contract was awarded.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Staff Resource(s):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Chief Kerr Putney, Police<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ann Wall, City Manager’s Office<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Explanation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">§ The Police Foundation is an
independent, non-governmental, research organization based in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Washington, D.C.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">- Incorporated in 1970, the Police
Foundation is the oldest nationally known, non-profit, non-partisan, and
non-membership driven organization dedicated to improving policing in America.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">- Their mission is to advance
policing through innovation and science.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">- The Police Foundation has extensive
experience in the assessment and evaluation of law enforcement response to
critical incidents:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">§ U.S. Department of Justice
Collaborative Reform Initiative: An Assessment of St.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Louis County Police Department by
Cooperative Agreement by the Office of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Community Oriented Policing, U.S.
Department of Justice,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">§ U.S. Department of Justice
Collaborative Reform Initiative: An Assessment of the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">North Charleston Police Department by
Cooperative Agreement by the Office of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Community Oriented Policing, U.S.
Department of Justice,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">§ Critical incident review and after
action assessment of law enforcement response to the San Bernardino Terrorist Shooting, and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">§ Critical incident review and after
action assessment of the law enforcement response to the Orlando Pulse
nightclub shooting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">- The Police Foundation has assembled
a highly qualified team with extensive expertise and experience in
police-community relations; critical incident review, best practice in policing
and law enforcement operations, use of force, implicit bias, and specialized
police responses to people with mental illness; problem-oriented policing and
internal investigations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">§ The Police Foundation will conduct
an independent assessment of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department’s
(CMPD) policies, procedures, relationship with the community, and CMPD’s work following
the September 20, 2016 officer-involved shooting incident.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">§ The assessment will include input
from a diverse group of community members and will result in recommendations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">§ The Police Foundation will work
closely with the community, as well as share all deliverables to the community
such as compiled reports, recommendations, and communication strategies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">§ The scope of work will include three phases:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">- Phase 1 - Development of the
Community Advisory Board and Project Strategy: The Police<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Foundation will develop a Community
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">- Phase 2 - Community Dialogue and
Input: The Police Foundation will organize structured listening sessions with
members and leaders of the community in conjunction with CMPD, city leaders,
and Advisory Board members.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">- Phase 3 - Critical Incident Review
of CMPD’s Response to Protests and Demonstration: The Police Foundation will
use its proven model of critical incident review and technical assistance
to review CMPD’s response to protests and demonstrations with a focus on rebuilding
relationships between the community and the police.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">§ CMPD will strategically implement
both short and long term recommendations and demands in response to The Police
Foundation, The President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing, and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">§ Contract expenditures are $379,504.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #595959; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Executive Fellows</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #595959; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> at the Police Foundation are
current or retired executive-level members of criminal justice organizations
whose knowledge, experience and skills help advance the Foundation’s mission.
They serve as members of the President’s Practitioner Advisory Board to help
ensure the Foundation is grounded in a comprehensive understanding of the
practical needs of law enforcement organizations. In addition, executive
fellows serve as the Foundation’s regional representatives in national and
international settings. Executive Fellows work on specific projects, represent
the Foundation in meetings and conferences, and develop substantive thought
pieces about the pressing issues facing policing. They serve for terms
determined by the Foundation’s president.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #595959; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Executive-level individuals interested in becoming an Executive
Fellow should e-mail a brief statement of interest outlining their experience
and skills at advancing policing and a copy of their resume directly to the
Foundation <a href="https://www.policefoundation.org/team_detail/jim-bueermann/"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #758db0; font-family: "inherit" , serif; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none;">President</span></a>. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #595959; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">See an embellished resume here:</span></div>
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<br />citynewswatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09166768367697949546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684274417834349897.post-16641153717619656342016-01-12T00:25:00.001-05:002016-01-12T12:42:36.046-05:00Charlotte City Council Thinks We're Stupid<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i><u>Charlotte City Council votes to support corrupt contract</u></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Tonight, after several hours of speakers who were overwhelmingly opposed to the contract with Cintra for building toll lanes on I-77 north of downtown Charlotte, and after acknowledging receiving many more private contacts also against the transaction, many Council members voted to punt on the upcoming CRPTO vote. They fail in the opportunity to vote against this horrible, corrupt project.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i><u>Leadership FAIL</u></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Led" by new Mayor Jennifer Roberts' speech about how Charlotte's vote really wouldn't have any impact anyway because we were not on the NCDOT contract, those who voted to move ahead continued to say that they "supported the strategy." It was the go-to catchphrase for the crew defending this indefensible contract. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />They literally had <b>NOT ONE THING </b>to say about benefits or positive financial or physical outcome of dealing with this company or building these toll roads in this way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">They basically said "<i><span style="color: blue;">we're too dumb to figure out anything else and we've been threatened that if we ask questions or require anything better than this colossal waste of money which ties us to 50 years of gridlock and penalties to a foreign company, we will have to pay outrageous penalties even though we had no say-so in making this contract or choosing this company... but we're too weak and corrupt to say we stand up for our constituents and say "NO"</span></i>."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i><u>MORE EMPTY THREATS</u></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Charlotte's City Council knows or should know the threats about Charlotte paying penalties if the contracts are canceled are lies. Not to mention the penalties are '<i><b>projected to be between $82MM and $300MM</b></i>" (can you say fraud?). State-level politicians put a fine point on the issue by taking time to stand in line with other citizens and speak directly to the point: Charles Jeter, Jeff Tarte and Tricia Cotham spoke together with Jeter speaking clearly in response to all the phony threats from Raleigh, "The only people that can pass laws are standing right here." They clearly indicated that forcing Charlotte to pay would require passing laws--and just as clearly indicated that would not happen with them in Raleigh.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Inexplicably, it didn't stop Charlotte Councilman Ed Driggs from repeating Roucho's empty threat that "there's no way the state's going to pay this penalty" and that Charlotte and other locals would. Really? It's not in the contract. How is it that only the STATE NCDOT can sign or change or cancel a contract but CHARLOTTE would have to pay? This is a flat out lie.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i><u>Governor McCrory looking for scapegoat</u></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">County Commisioner Pat Cotham also waited to speak along with Commissioners Puckett and Leake. Cotham said strongly, "Take out this one bad project.... the Governor needs a scapegoat and you (Charlotte Council) are his target! Call him out."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i><u>WHAT!? TAXES?!</u></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Cornelius Commissioner Milton came to speak and informed us that North Carolina tax payers are contracted to pay the. taxes for Cintra. What? <i><b>What?</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is new information for Citynewswatch and probably for many people. That's one more argument off the table for the "pro" group who has been touting the boost to our economy for the tax revenue generated by this private company. We're paying them there, too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><u><i><b>JOHN AUTRY's MAGIC BUS</b></i></u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Autry talked of how the people who ride buses need a lane where they can ride reliably and quickly, and they can do it on the new toll lanes. Hey, John, this plan TAKES AWAY THE FREE H.O.V. lane that we already paid for and which is available to buses now and gives it to the foreign company to profit from--where buses will be slowed down by toll lanes, traffic jams, and other problems. And we will pay their taxes in addition to losing that lane flexibility.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What about the impact of losing that lane for emergency vehicles? Nobody has addressed that publicly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Councilman Al Austin said, "They knew this contract was one we wouldn't accept and they ACCELERATED it. We need to put a bow on it and send it back."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><u><i><b>LAWANA MAYFIELD REWARDED FOR HER SUPPORT(?)</b></i></u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Councilwoman Lawana Mayfield has been vocal in her opposition ahead of the meeting. One speaker accidentally addressed her as "Congresswoman Mayfield" and the temporary promotion garnered both laughter and applause in a light moment of the evening.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Patsy Kinsey made her usual moronic statement that she was voting for it but "holding her nose," as if that makes it okay. Will tax payers be able to "hold their noses" long enough to sit on the interstate or when they have to sell their homes because they can't afford the taxes anymore?</span><br />
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<b><i><u><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">PAT MCRORY, WHY IS THERE A SURPLUS EVERYWHERE ELSE?</span></u></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Maybe we should all move to one of the counties where Pat McCrory has surplus road money to build bridges and roads--you know, where all our taxes are flowing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Will the FBI please get busy here in Charlotte? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And Raleigh.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Widen I-77 has announced it is seeking to delay the suit it has filed.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Last night, the Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners voted to send their representative to CRPTO with a NO vote on proceeding with the Cintra/I-77 Mobility Partners toll project heading north of Charlotte. Widen-I-77 now hopes to sway Charlotte's City Council to vote in kind. They wish to have the City of Charlotte cast their considerable 38 votes in addition to Mecklenburg County's 2 votes in opposition to the current toll lanes project. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">WCCB Charlotte reports <a href="http://www.wccbcharlotte.com/video/toll-lane-opponents-seek-to-put-lawsuit-on-hold/">this way</a>:</span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #134f5c;">CHARLOTTE, NC — Opponents to the I-77 toll lanes are trying to delay a lawsuit they filed to allow the political process to play out.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #134f5c;">A hearing was set in that lawsuit for this Friday. But Wednesday, Widen I-77 announced it’s asking to stay that suit.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #134f5c;">The group hopes to influence the Charlotte City Council, which has a 46 percent vote on the Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization, which is the group that ultimately decides if the project lives or dies.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #134f5c;">“All Charlotte has to do is have one or two municipalities vote with it, and the motion will carry,” said Kurt Naas of Widen I-77.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #134f5c;">Tuesday night, Mecklenburg County Commissioners voted 8-1 against the toll lanes.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Mayor Jennifer Roberts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">600 East 4th Street<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Charlotte, NC 28202-2244<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Telephone: 704-336-2241<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:mayor@charlottenc.gov" style="color: #367cc1; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: windowtext;">mayor@charlottenc.gov</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Mayor Pro Tem Vi Lyles<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Council member at large<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">600 E. 4th Street<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Charlotte, NC 28202-2244<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Telephone: 704-336-3431<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:vlyles@charlottenc.gov" style="color: #367cc1; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: windowtext;">vlyles@charlottenc.gov</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Julie Eiselt<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Council member at large<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">600 E. 4th Street<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Charlotte, NC 28202-2244<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Telephone: to come<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:julie.eiselt@charlottenc.gov" style="color: #367cc1; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: windowtext;">julie.eiselt@charlottenc.gov</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Claire Green Fallon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Council member at large<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">PO Box 481325<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Charlotte, NC, 28269<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Telephone: 704-336-6105<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:cfallon@charlottenc.gov" style="color: #367cc1; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: windowtext;">cfallon@charlottenc.gov</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">James Mitchell<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Council member at large<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">600 E. 4th Street<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Charlotte, NC 28202-2244<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Telephone: 704-336-3430<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:james.mitchell@charlottenc.gov" style="color: #367cc1; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: windowtext;">james.mitchell@charlottenc.gov</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Patsy B. Kinsey<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Council member, district 1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2334 Greenway Avenue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Charlotte, NC 28204<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Telephone: 704-336-3432<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:pkinsey@charlottenc.gov" style="color: #367cc1; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: windowtext;">pkinsey@charlottenc.gov</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Al Austin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Council member, district 2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">600 E. 4th Street<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Charlotte, NC 28202-2244<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Telephone: 704-336-3185<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:aaustin@charlottenc.gov" style="color: #367cc1; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: windowtext;">aaustin@charlottenc.gov</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">LaWana Mayfield<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Council member, district 3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">600 E. 4th Street<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Charlotte, NC 28202-2244<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Telephone: 704-336-3435<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:lmayfield@charlottenc.gov" style="color: #367cc1; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: windowtext;">lmayfield@charlottenc.gov</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Gregory A. Phipps<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Council member, district 4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">600 E. 4th Street<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Charlotte, NC 28202-2244<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Telephone: 704-336-3436<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:gaphipps@charlottenc.gov" style="color: #367cc1; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: windowtext;">gaphipps@charlottenc.gov</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">John N. Autry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Council member, district 5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">600 E. 4th Street<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Charlotte, NC 28202-2244<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Telephone: 704-336-2777<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:jautry@charlottenc.gov" style="color: #367cc1; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: windowtext;">jautry@charlottenc.gov</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Kenny Smith<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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citynewswatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09166768367697949546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684274417834349897.post-36958462483976070292016-01-05T06:35:00.000-05:002016-01-05T06:35:01.720-05:00ARE YOU THIS STUPID OR THIS CORRUPT?<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">Is this the first question that comes to mind every time
you read of anyone’s support for I-77 Toll Lanes? It is for the staff at </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #000099; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Citynewswatch</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Each update is more and more infuriating, including the
information from last night’s work session of the Charlotte City Council
committee where they took a vote of 3-2 to support toll lanes, with Vi Lyles
supporting. </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Lyles is the sole vote representing Charlotte on CRPTO (the Charlotte
Regional Transportation Planning Organization) with a weighted vote of 31 out
of 68 which essentially makes it the only one that counts. She has made it clear she intends to keep
supporting the contract with Spanish-based I-77 Mobility Partners/Cintra to
build toll lanes which may cost around $20 per round trip at rush hour. The private toll lanes would skip over
certain exit areas altogether and dump traffic into select real estate
development areas. Toll lanes would only be strong enough to support cars (read ==> trucks will be forced to stay on "free" lanes and increase slowdowns and air pollution for the poor masses). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What is the reason for support of this crazy contract?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The State of North Carolina contracted with a company known
to default and go bankrupt multiple times in other states. They have been involved in government
bribes. They were awarded a
no-competitive-bid contract with a 50-year non-compete clause so that NC may
not add any tax-funded lanes (or should we say <i>other</i> tax-funded lanes?) without paying huge penalties. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here’s another problem:
the threats of huge penalties to scare us into submission are
fluctuating from a relatively small amount to $300 million. The NCDOT representative also says the
number <i><b>can’t be calculated</b></i>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Can’t be calculated?
From a contract you wrote?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Again… <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">‘Are you that stupid or that
corrupt’ comes to mind.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Of course the representative is Ned Curran, who is also CEO
of Charlotte-based Bissell Companies real estate developer. That’s right:
The chairman of the state Board of Transportation directing where & how our tax money is spent on roads is head of one of the
biggest real estate developers in the area. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Curran has been quoted with statements that voting down
this project would affect lanes being built on Independence Blvd. and on Charlotte's outer loop along with other
local projects, and further that any “regular” lanes being built on I-77 would
be delayed a minimum of 6 months more for an air quality study to be
conducted. Opponents say the first
statement is simply untrue and is nothing more than retaliation. No explanation has been given for the air
quality study. But even if it’s true,
wouldn’t a 6-month delay seem inconsequential compared to hundreds of millions or
perhaps billions of dollars lost to a foreign country with a spotty record of
accomplishment? Is there any confidence
that air quality would be better with Cintra managing toll lanes than with
additional “free” lanes? Probably not—and
that should be the comparison for air quality decisions. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><i><u><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">EASY
BACKGROUND<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></i></b></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you need to catch up on this important issue, here’s a video
posted on You Tube has been posted some time ago but with good information and
a snappy tune:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=qe3w9Bp8hY4&app=desktop">Where’sYour Head At?</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><i><u><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">TONIGHT’S
CITY COUNCIL MEETING STUPIDITY<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></i></b></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Charlotte Observer’s Steve Harrison <a href="http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article52931200.html#storylink=mainstage">recapped</a> the Council
committee meeting including.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here are a couple of the dumbest highlights:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">“Lyles,
the committee chairman, tried to steer the conversation away from questions
about the 1-77 project specifically.”
Um, what did Lyles think people were there to discuss? A corrupt, outrageous contract for a toll
road that should not be built--which will benefit NOBODY except developers with
some very specific tracts of land and a company that is building those toll roads.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">"Upon
initial review the (auditor’s) report appears to reaffirm that, while the exact
cost of cancellation cannot be calculated, it will clearly be substantial,"
the DOT said. It has been stated at
about $100 Million or up to $300 Million.
Would you make a contract that may be off by 300% or off by $200
Million? That’s what Vi Lyles and
possibly Jennifer Roberts and others want you to pay for. And probably your children. And their children. 50 Years.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">“Julie
Eiselt, a Democrat, said she asked a friend who works in construction in Spain
about Cintra, which has been criticized by toll lane opponents. Eiselt said her
friend told her the firm has a good reputation.” Let’s base our decision about Cintra’s
reputation on government bribery and bankruptcies and defaults for other toll
road projects in major cities that have left those cities bleeding out ransoms
of tax-payer funds. I don’t care what
Eiselt’s friend heard at the water cooler en Espana. Embarrassing.</span></li>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A group called WIDEN I-77 has filed suit to stop the toll
roads. The hearing will be this </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red;">Friday,
Jan. 8, at 10:00 a.m. </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">in at the Mecklenburg County Courthouse at 832 East 4<sup>th</sup>
Street in Charlotte in <span style="color: red;"><b>Court Room 6170</b></span> and is open to public attendance. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You should also make your opinion known via email addresses
always provided to the right sidebar here and phone numbers below:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Office of
the City Clerk <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">704-336-2248<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mayor Jennifer Roberts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">600 East 4th Street<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Charlotte, NC 28202-2244<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Telephone: 704-336-2241<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:mayor@charlottenc.gov"><span style="color: windowtext;">mayor@charlottenc.gov</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mayor Pro Tem Vi Lyles<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Council member at large<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">600 E. 4th Street<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Charlotte, NC 28202-2244<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Telephone: 704-336-3431<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:vlyles@charlottenc.gov"><span style="color: windowtext;">vlyles@charlottenc.gov</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Julie Eiselt<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Council member at large<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">600 E. 4th Street<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Charlotte, NC 28202-2244<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Telephone: to come<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:julie.eiselt@charlottenc.gov"><span style="color: windowtext;">julie.eiselt@charlottenc.gov</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Claire Green Fallon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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citynewswatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09166768367697949546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684274417834349897.post-76375266098654980742015-08-07T00:35:00.000-04:002015-08-07T00:35:24.376-04:00IRRESPONSIBLE "COMMENTARY" FROM THE UPOR<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This "<a href="http://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/eric-frazier/article30247107.html">commentary</a>" headline is featured today in the local newspaper. It may be a strong example of why the value of the Charlotte Observer and publisher have tanked. And check out the "highlights" list, too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For the newspaper to allow this race-baiting, pandering column of biased accusations to run is entirely irresponsible, in the opinion of <b>Citynewswatch</b> editorial staff. </span><br />
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Commentary: Jonathan Ferrell faced three officers; only the white one used deadly force</h1>
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Video in Jonathan Ferrell case is inconclusive</div>
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Two black officers joined Wes Kerrick on scene</div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Please read that 'highlight' again:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'McClatchy Sans', Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23.9999980926514px;"><b><i>"No coincidence the white officer was one to use deadly force"</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Frazier goes on to explain how white people will view a video of a tragic night and how black people will view it. Frazier quotes about a "big bad black man," but isn't quoting anyone. </span><br />
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<i>I have always suspected that Kerrick’s biggest hurdle at trial wouldn’t <u>necessarily</u> be the video, but the actions of the two police officers who joined him that night.</i></div>
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<i>The standard at issue in this trial is whether a reasonable officer, confronted with the same circumstances, would take the same action Kerrick did.</i></div>
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<i>Usually, that other “reasonable officer” is a hypothetical. Here, there are two other real officers.</i></div>
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<i>And they are both African-American.</i></div>
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<i>One, Officer Adam Neal, didn’t pull any weapon. He testified that he expected a violent confrontation, but figured on subduing Ferrell by fighting him.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Beginning with "I have always suspected hat Kerrick's biggest hurdle at trial wouldn't necessarily be the video..." Frazier exposes he already decided what happened and he makes no logical argument or explanation for arriving there. He believes the video is a problem for the officer and not for the prosecution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The only point worth examining here is that Officer Adam Neal testified (and who knows if this is an accurate description of his thoughts at the time?) that he "figured on subduing Ferrell by fighting him." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em;">It seems too many officers, whether out of fear or malice or lack of experience or training, are too quick to pull deadly weapons instead of learning to </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em;">avoid </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em;">many situations or to use their bodies and voices to control some situations, <i>when</i> the option exists. SOMETIMES it's possible to hang back and talk with someone you are responding to, rather than immediately deciding to use force and try to force compliance. Some situations would turn deadly fast for officers if they don't have weapons out and ready. Please don't bother to write to say you worry for officers being killed in the line of duty, with other weapons or their own. That concern </span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em;"><i>is a fact</i></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em;">. The issue is that for other situations, there's possibly lack of training, poor training, poor preparation to gain experience on the street and in other venues before being released onto patrol, or other causes. And there are times officers would die if they didn't react fast enough.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><u>But not a valid reaction</u></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If a "journalist" decides that the police department is full of racists who will choose to shoot black men, or decides the police department is hiring people not suited for police work, then <i>investigate</i> and <i>report on that</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Frazier says there were two other officers who acted differently in the same position. But they were NOT in the same position as Kerrick, who had a man suddenly jump in his direction running at him, for whatever reasons are currently unknown to the general public and may be unknown to anyone but Ferrell. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><u><b>Frazier race-baiting</b></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And there is no evidence that Kerrick had any animosity toward black people or wanted to harm Ferrell, despite the terrible outcome. Why does this newspaper continue to try to cause feelings of racial hate and blame in a case when that is not remotely apparent as causation? Why not look at police training, training the public on what to do when confronted by police (ie, not charge at them) and work on community relations in the first place? The only attention paid by many in local media is to stir up racial issues because there is no other story they bother to pursue. It's lazy. It's dangerous. It's inexcusable. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We can hope the full truth about this incident comes out by the end of the trial, but to make up an accusation of racism on the part of one officer and pump it out for headlines that will attract a bunch of people to "comment"-fight is a pathetic way to operate, personally or professionally.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Please stop taking the lowest, easiest road possible and do some journalism.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The message to Charlotte City Council and Citizens is that the most recent multi-million dollar contract with TASER was done through competitive bid process and received only one bid. But a quick review of the Invitation to bid (scroll down to page 37) makes it clear that TASER was the only manufacturer considered:</span></div>
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<b><i><u>TASER HIRED TWO RETIRED CHIEFS AS CONSULTANT AND IN TALKS WITH THIRD, AFTER EACH CHIEF RECOMMENDED PURCHASES IN THE $MILLIONS</u></i></b></div>
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</b><br />See <a href="http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=33680550">http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=33680550</a> by KTL from March 3, 2015 and read part of the article here:<br /><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i><br /></i></span></span><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 19px;">
<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Taser International, the stun-gun maker emerging as a leading supplier of body cameras for police, has cultivated financial ties to police chiefs whose departments have bought the recording devices, raising a host of conflict-of-interest questions.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>A review of records and interviews by The Associated Press show Taser is covering airfare and hotel stays for police chiefs who speak at promotional conferences. It is also hiring recently retired chiefs as consultants, sometimes just months after their cities signed contracts with Taser.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white;">Over the past 18 months, </span><span style="background-color: yellow;">Taser has reached consulting agreements with two such chiefs weeks after they retired, and it is in talks with a third who also backed the purchase of its products, the AP has learned.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> Taser is planning to send two of them to speak at luxury hotels in Australia and the United Arab Emirates in March at events where they will address other law enforcement officers considering body cameras.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>The relationships raise questions of whether chiefs are acting in the best interests of the taxpayers in their dealings with Scottsdale, Arizona-based Taser, whose contracts for cameras and storage systems for the video can run into the millions of dollars.</i></span></div>
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<b><i><u>CITY COUNCIL DEMANDS INVESTIGATION INTO POLICE CHIEF WITH TASER TIES AFTER HE RECOMMENDED $1.9 MILLION IN PURCHASES</u></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Taser International, the stun-gun maker emerging as a leading supplier of body cameras for police, has cultivated financial ties to police chiefs whose departments have bought the recording devices, raising a host of conflict-of-interest questions.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>A review of records and interviews by The Associated Press show Taser is covering airfare and hotel stays for police chiefs who speak at promotional conferences. It is also hiring recently retired chiefs as consultants, sometimes just months after their cities signed contracts with Taser.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;">Over the past 18 months, Taser has reached consulting agreements with two such chiefs weeks after they retired</span><span style="background-color: white;">, and </span><b><span style="background-color: white;">i</span><span style="background-color: yellow;">t is in talks with a third who also backed the purchase of its products</span></b><span style="background-color: white;">, the AP has learned. Taser is planning to send two of them to speak at luxury hotels in Australia and the United Arab Emirates in March at events where they will address other law enforcement officers considering body cameras.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>The relationships raise questions of whether chiefs are acting in the best interests of the taxpayers in their dealings with Scottsdale, Arizona-based Taser, whose contracts for cameras and storage systems for the video can run into the millions of dollars.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — </strong>Taser International, the stun-gun maker emerging as a leading supplier of body cameras for police, has cultivated financial ties to police chiefs whose departments have bought the recording devices, raising a host of conflict-of-interest questions.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>A review of records and interviews by The Associated Press show Taser is covering airfare and hotel stays for police chiefs who speak at promotional conferences. It is also hiring recently retired chiefs as consultants, sometimes just months after their cities signed contracts with Taser.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Over the past 18 months, Taser has reached consulting agreements with two such chiefs weeks after they retired, and it is in talks with a third who also backed the purchase of its products, the AP has learned. Taser is planning to send two of them to speak at luxury hotels in Australia and the United Arab Emirates in March at events where they will address other law enforcement officers considering body cameras.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>The relationships raise questions of whether chiefs are acting in the best interests of the taxpayers in their dealings with Scottsdale, Arizona-based Taser, whose contracts for cameras and storage systems for the video can run into the millions of dollars.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>As the police chief in Fort Worth, Texas, successfully pushed for the signing of a major contract with Taser before a company quarterly sales deadline, he wrote a Taser representative in an email, “Someone should give me a raise.”</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>The market for wearable cameras that can record arrests, shootings and other encounters has been growing fast since the killing last August of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. <a href="http://www.wpxi.com/s/news/politics/barack-obama/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">President Barack Obama</a> has proposed a $75 million program for departments to buy the cameras to reduce tensions between officers and the communities they serve.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>City officials and rival companies are raising concerns about police chiefs’ ties to Taser, not only in Fort Worth but in such cities as Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Salt Lake City.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>“Department heads need to be very careful to avoid that type of appearance of an endorsement in a for-profit setting,” said Charlie Luke, a Salt Lake City councilman. “It opens up the opportunity for competitors of these companies to essentially do what we’re seeing here — complaining about that public process.”</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>He said he was surprised when he learned last year that the city’s police department had purchased Taser cameras using surplus money, bypassing the standard bidding process and City Council approval. The department declined to say how much it has spent acquiring 295 body cameras and Taser’s Evidence.com video storage program and hasn’t responded to a month-old public records request.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>The city’s police chief, Chris Burbank, said that his relationship with Taser, which includes company-paid travel to Taser-sponsored conferences, is appropriate. He recently recorded at the company’s request a promotional video in which he praised Evidence.com.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Burbank said he does not receive speaking fees and believes he hasn’t violated a city code prohibiting paid product endorsements on public time. He said he accepts Taser’s speaking invitations to promote the best ways of using body cameras. But Luke, the city councilman, questioned what value Salt Lake City gets from Burbank’s trips.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>A Taser spokesman said the company has no control over how cities decide to award contracts. Taser says early adopters of technology are the best ones to discuss its benefits and drawbacks and share their experiences with colleagues.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>“This is a pretty normal practice for police chiefs and other recently retired individuals to speak on behalf of the industry,” Taser chief marketing officer Luke Larson said.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Taser’s competitors say its cozy relationships are hurting their ability to seek contracts. They complain they have been shut out by cities awarding no-bid contracts to Taser and are being put at a disadvantage by requests for proposals that appear tailored to Taser’s products.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>“Every time I do a presentation, as I’m standing there looking through the room, I wonder, ‘Who is tainted by Taser?'” said Peter Onruang, president of Wolfcom Enterprises, a California body camera maker.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Taser reported Thursday that orders for body cameras and Evidence.com soared to $24.6 million in the final three months of 2014 — a nearly fivefold increase from the same quarter in 2013. The company said it had contracts with 13 major cities and is in discussions or trials with 28 more.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>A no-bid contract in Albuquerque and Taser’s relationship with the police chief prompted an investigation by the city’s inspector general.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i style="background-color: yellow;">City Council members demanded the inquiry after learning that Chief Ray Schultz, who had supported the $1.9 million contract for Taser cameras and storage, became a company consultant shortly after stepping down. A U.S. Justice Department investigation last year blasted Albuquerque’s rollout of the body cameras, saying it had been so hasty that officers had not been properly trained.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Today, Schultz speaks in an online promotional video about Albuquerque’s experience with Evidence.com. Although he has recently been hired as assistant chief in the Houston suburb of Memorial Villages, Schultz said he will be paid by Taser to speak at the international conferences in March.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Former New Orleans Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas confirmed he signed a Taser consulting agreement after he stepped down in August and has spoken at company-sponsored events in Canada and Arizona. Less than a year earlier, in December 2013, the city agreed to a $1.4 million contract with Taser for 420 cameras and storage.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>In an interview with the AP, Serpas declined to detail how the consulting deal came about but said it did not violate a state ethics law because he is not lobbying his former employer. He also said he was not on the committee that recommended Taser for the contract.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Serpas said his role is to speak about how technology affects policing and not to promote products. Taser marketing materials reviewed by AP, however, quote him as calling the company’s Axon cameras and Evidence.com “a game changer for police departments here and around the world.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>In Fort Worth, emails obtained by the AP under Texas’ open records law show that then-Police Chief Jeffrey Halstead was seeking 400 more body cameras for officers last year and that Taser promised a discount if the deal could be approved before the end of the company’s sales quarter.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>“Close of the month? I do not wear a cape or have x-ray vision you know,” Halstead wrote a Taser representative.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>But over the next three weeks, Halstead successfully pushed the city to approve a no-bid contract worth up to $2.7 million. He kept Taser representatives aware of his progress, adding at one point that he deserved a raise.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>In the following months, Taser had Halstead speak at events in Phoenix, Miami and Boston, covering his airfare and lodging, records show. The four-day Boston trip for Halstead and a companion cost Taser $2,445.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Halstead said he reached an oral agreement during the contract negotiations to travel to three other cities at Fort Worth’s expense to talk about his experience with Taser cameras. In one email, he told a Taser representative he believed he could persuade San Antonio to buy its cameras, “but my fee is not cheap! LOL.”</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Halstead, who retired from the department in January, said he hopes to become an official consultant before he travels to speak at overseas events in March. He said he discussed such an arrangement during the end of his city employment, but had nothing promised.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>He defended his ties to Taser as a “good business relationship” with a company that supports law enforcement.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Fort Worth City Manager David Cooke said he does not believe Halstead violated rules that prohibit employees from accepting job offers or other benefits that might influence the performance of their official duties. But he said the episode might reveal “gaps that we need to fill” in the code.</i></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">BONUSES:</span></b><br />
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>An interesting exchange about paying for body cameras from TASER INTERNATIONAL from the full TASER purchase discussion which can be found here: </b></span><br />
<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b> <a href="http://charmeck.org/city/charlotte/CityClerk/Documents/Minutes/2015/01.26.15.pdf">Charlotte City Council Minutes Jan. 26, 2015</a>:</b></span><br />
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mr. Barnes said I think this might answer it; in an earlier slide, either the Chief or Mr. Harrington
noted an intent by the Manager and by CMPD to make asset forfeiture contributions as possible and I
think to Ms. Lyles question our historical experience has been that we get much more than $100,000
per year in asset forfeiture funds. For the sake of simplifying this exercise tonight and getting through
this process I think if we leave it the way it is, if the Council is comfortable with it, I was trying to get
us to actually draw down the capital contribution and increase the amount of money coming from
another source, but if you want to leave it the way it is and take their word for it that they will
contribute the asset forfeiture funds as allowed and as possible I’m fine with that as well. But I think
the Chief was confident that he could contribute $100,000 per year for those three years throughout
this process. </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mr. Phipps said I was wondering would we apply that same thing if we happen to get grants that we
would apply for; would we apply those as a reduction from the capital if we did that? </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mr. Barnes said if I might Mr. Mayor, Mr. Phipps I think no grants are listed here as an opportunity so
I don’t know if the Manager would be thinking that. I think we are operating strictly within what the
staff laid out for us and the potential for contributions within those sources. </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ms. Kinsey said I might be able to hold my nose and vote for this with $100,000 in there; I don’t know
why we wouldn’t be able to leave it in there if you can look at $324,880 in the year 2019 and project
that why not $100,000 each year? </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mr. Carlee said would you repeat the question? </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ms. Kinsey said I said I could probably hold my nose and support this with $100,000 from asset
forfeiture in the years 2016, 2017 and 2018 and I did raise the question if we could project $324,880 in
year 2019 why not $100,000 each year? </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mr. Carlee said we don’t have a problem with that. </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mayor Clodfelter said I think the Manager has endorsed the restructured motion. </span></i></span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ms. Lyles said I just want to say sometimes I’m really hesitant because my memory is not what it used
to be, but I recall that </span><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">asset forfeiture funds are governed strictly by a set of regulations that are
federally imposed upon us to protect local communities from estimating revenues and causing police
actions to go and purpose those revenues because it is projected in a future year.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: yellow;">I don’t remember if
that has changed or not but I’m just curious if that intent of estimating future revenues for asset
forfeiture is really compliant with the intent or the regulations stated, and if it is not then I would agree,
but my recall is that there was a great deal of caution about that so that communities wouldn’t go out
and seize assets from citizens so that they could meet their project that year.</span> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That has been by concern
and I don’t know if anyone can address that and if the rules have changed or the intent has changed,
I’m very comfortable with the motion. If it hasn’t I would make a substitute motion to accept the
recommendation as it is. </span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Motion was made by Councilmember Barnes, seconded by Councilmember Howard, to (A)
Approve a five year contract with Taser International in an amount not to exceed $5,491,186 for
hardware, software license, services, storage, and ongoing maintenance for the implementation and
support of Body Worn Cameras; (B) Authorize the City Manager to approve contracts for additional
purchases in an amount not to exceed $1,551,058 for ancillary hardware, software, and services for
the implementation and configuration of Body Worn Cameras; (C) Accept a donation form the
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Foundation, in the amount of $250,000, to be used for the Body
Worn Camera project, and (D) Adopt Budget Ordinance No. 5563-X appropriating $6,724,880 as
follows: $5,900,000 from capital fund reserves, $574,880 from assets forfeiture funds and $250,000
from the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Foundation. The remaining balance of $317,364 will be
funded within the future operating budgets with an amendment to include the $100,000 per year for
FY16, FY17 and FY18 from asset forfeiture and reducing the capital contribution by a
corresponding amount to take the capital down to $5.6 million and the </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">asset forfeiture contribution
would go up to $874,880 as available.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
January 26, 2015
Business Meeting
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mayor Clodfelter said Chief you heard the question from Ms. Lyles; are we allowed to appropriate
future asset forfeiture funds that we don’t yet know whether we are going to have or not? </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></i></span>
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Chief Monroe said we are not. </b></span></i></span><br />
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<i><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mayor Clodfelter said </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">we are not allowed to do that, by Federal law?</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></i></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></i></span>
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Chief Monroe said yes sir. </span></i></span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></i></span></div>
<div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ms. Kinsey said then why can they put in $324,880? </span></i></span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></i></span></div>
<div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mayor Clodfelter said Ms. Kinsey asked the quite appropriate question that in the out year of 2019 you
have $324,880. </span></i></span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></i></span></div>
<div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Chief Monroe said that should be appropriated now. </span></i></span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></i></span></div>
<div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mayor Clodfelter said from currently available funds? </span></i></span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></i></span></div>
<div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<i><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">C</span>hief Monroe said correct. </span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent;"><i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mayor Clodfelter said so Chief are you saying that the item before us really should have $574,880 of
currently available asset forfeiture funds in the present fiscal year appropriated. </span></i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent;"><i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Chief Monroe said in order to comply that needs to be loaded now or committed now. </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent;"><i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mayor Clodfelter said Mr. Harrington, do we have that? </span></i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent;"><i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;"><i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mr. Harrington said yes, and that is reflected in your budget ordinance under Section 4, the $574,880. </span></i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent;"><i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;"><i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mayor Clodfelter said so that is exactly right so Councilmember Lyles needs to speak up so everybody
understands what the point is and why everybody is getting confused by this chart. </span></i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent;"><i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Ms. Lyles said the chart on Page 6 is a schedule of expense; you must appropriate the entire amount to
encumber this. All you are seeing in this chart is when it is going to be scheduled.</span><span style="background-color: yellow;"> That is why I’m
very reluctant to add money where it is not shown; what we are actually doing is appropriating
$7,042,000 plus today; the chart shows when it will be expensed, but you have to by law encumber the
amount of the contract and you must show that those revenues are there. It will show up in the asset
forfeiture account of encumbrance of $574,000 which I am sure is in the account now.</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;"><i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mayor Clodfelter said otherwise you would not be requesting the action, correct? </span></i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent;"><i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Ms. Kinsey said this is exactly why we should be doing this through the budgeting process or have
more time to talk about it and to understand it. This is very confusing; I am not the dumbest person in
the world and not the smartest either, but it is just very confusing and we are spending a lot of money
in the overall scheme of things; </span><span style="background-color: yellow;">$7 million is not like some we have spent but we really have not
studied this as a Council and I hope we never do this again because it makes us look stupid and I don’t
like looking stupid even if I am.</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> I hope we don’t do this again because it is not pretty. </span></span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent;"><i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mr. Barnes said may I amend my motion? </span></i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent;"><i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;"><i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mayor Clodfelter said I think it might be in order.</span></i></span></div>
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<b><i>SEEKING INPUT AND RECOMMENDATIONS</i></b></div>
City Councilperson Claire Fallon said 'we know him' and 'we don't have time to search for a new chief.'' Kerr Putney has been named the new Chief of Police for the City of Charlotte. </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The FOP (Fraternal Order of Police) was surveyed and the majority said they believe there should have been an external search. The CMPD rank and file were ignored in favor of choosing a guy that would continue the Rodney Monroe plan. If you assume CMPD/FOP members have their own aspirations of being promoted from within, you may think that a passable candidate (according to CMPD members) would have been supported strongly. It wasn't even a question about Putney, but the writing was on the wall and the answer was "look somewhere else." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The City Manager explained we were in a hurry and didn't have the money to search for someone else. Has this City Manager never heard of "Interim Chief?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If Putney were named Interim Chief, all the things the City Manager and Council say about what is needed could have been tested. He still could have been named Chief. Removing someone as Chief has proven difficult and this rash hiring is not good management.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>COUNCIL RESPONSIBILITY FOR OVERSIGHT</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Everyone must educate themselves and vote in a responsible City Council who will hire competent City Management and insist on a police department run with integrity and which is accountable to Charlotte's citizens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>ONE OPPORTUNITY FOR PUTNEY TO PROVE HIMSELF</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Unless Kerr Putney enters his new position and opens a significant number of Internal Affairs investigations for all the things he has known and didn't do anything about before, he has a vote of No-Confidence from many. This would include everything hidden by his predecessor from retaliation against great officers, covering up for terrible officers (did you mean it when you said you don't want 'criminals with badges?', financial irregularities, and bad hiring/promotion/training practices that have led to generally bad morale in the ranks</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. And investigating CMPD finances should be top on someone's list. It would be a surprising change if Putney rises to challenge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Good luck to us all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Chief is retiring. Long live the new Chief.</span></div>
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citynewswatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09166768367697949546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684274417834349897.post-8381450024991685942014-11-10T20:14:00.001-05:002014-11-10T20:14:27.201-05:00City of Charlotte Won't Release Records about CMPD Officer Arrests, Internal Affairs, Policies<br />
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from City of Charlotte Attorney Robert Hagemann received after asking City
Manager Ron Carlee to give correct information about arrests of CMPD officers
and Internal Affairs complaints about CMPD officers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While </span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; letter-spacing: 2pt;">Citynewswatch</span></b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> sent a request for comment and additional
information only earlier today to Carlee, Hagemann answered in his stead and
made it clear he had no intention of providing the public records or requisite
legal reasons for denial. He simply
expressed a personal “satisfaction” that others have been “appropriately
responsive” to requests.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The only appropriate response to a Public Records request is to provide
the records or a correct reason to deny or provide redacted records. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Redacted Internal Affairs complaints have been denied completely
without explanation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After plenty of time to respond, the list of police officers who have been arrested was stated as
complete by CMPD Public Information Officer, but proven incorrect. This
causes concern over how many other arrests may be yet undiscovered, as well as
how much of the disciplinary action list provided may be true or may be
missing. Hagemann has ignored requests for
policies and other regular records. He wants an attorney to call and have a chat with our city's attorney. A conversation isn't documentation. It doesn't meet the public record requirement, either. The request submitted does not need clarification. It needs to be met.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">How much longer will the City Council allow the City Manager to run the
staff in this manner over issues as serious as crimes alleged or committed by police officers? Please see the
full list of information requested, including policies designed to promote transparency
and fairness within the ranks of the police department. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To: City of Charlotte Manager Ron Carlee<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Date: November 10, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">CMPD Arrests and Discipline Public Records Request<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dear City Manager Carlee,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Our Editorial Staff has received information that CMPD Information
Officer Brian Cunningham gave information responsive to a Public Records
Request which was either intentionally false, missing obvious information, or
which may contain numerous false or missing pieces of information about
criminal charges against Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Officers during 2013 and
2014 and disciplinary action taken related to those arrests and other
disciplinary action. Specifically, multiple arrests of officers are known to be
missing from the list provided as "complete" so all the information
provided is suspect.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Also, requests for redacted copies of Internal Affairs complaints and
redacted copies of disposition of those complaints have been denied by Brian
Cunningham and CMPD Attorney Judy Emken.
City of Charlotte Attorney Robert Hagemann was contacted October 23,
2014 on these issues and it appears you have been copied prior to this as well,
but records have not been forthcoming. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Initially, please provide
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">a. Why Senior Attorney Robert Hagemann has
not even responded to requests for Public Records, and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">b. Why the Public Information Officer for
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about which police officers have been arrested, and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">c. Whether all CMPD officers arrested are
processed in the same manner as other citizens, with fingerprinting and
photographing, posted to the Sheriff’s public web site, and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">d. Whether the list of disciplinary action
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Following soon, please give a projected completion date and provide
these PUBLIC RECORD ITEMS:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">a. Provide a complete and accurate list of
all CMPD officers arrested during 2012, 2013 and 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">b. Provide a copy of disposition of those
criminal charges<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">c. Provide a complete and accurate copy of
all termination letters for each CMPD officer terminated/separated during 2012,
2013 and 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">d. Provide an appropriately redacted copy of
all CMPD Internal Affairs complaints submitted and their associated dispositions
for 2012, 2013 and 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">e. Provide a copy of any and all policies
relating to criminal charges against a City of Charlotte employee (CMPD or
otherwise), including but not limited to CMPD employees and especially concerning:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> i.
Criteria and who makes the determination for paid or unpaid leave or suspension,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">ii. Criteria and who makes the determination
whether City of Charlotte will pay for a
criminal defense if necessary,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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whether City of Charlotte will pay for a
civil attorney if necessary,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">iv. Criteria and who makes the determination
of when and what to notify the DA’s office of cases involving an arrested
officer,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">v. What criteria and timing determine if an
officer is relieved of their gun when arrested and when they may be reissued
their service gun or permitted to have other weapons,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">vi. Whether any convicted criminals are
permitted to be CMPD officers,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">vii. Any policies related to hiring of officers
with arrest records (ie, may an officer with record of arrest be hired? And if so,
under what circumstances?),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Please explain why no action is being taken to provide these records
and give any comment you wish.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Citynewswatch@gmail.com<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">CC: dclodfelter@charlottenc.gov,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">rhagemann@charlottenc.gov,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">jemken@cmpd.org,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">sharrison@charlotteobserver.com,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hagemann, Robert<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Following is the substance of an email that I just sent <name
withheld>, the “individual” who I am confident made the requests you are
referring to. I refer you to that by way
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have discussed this matter with Ms. Emken and Cpt. Cunningham and am
satisfied that they have been appropriately responsive to your public records
requests. Cpt. Cunningham will
supplement the documents previously provided for 2013 and 2014 to include 2012
now that you have made that request.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Cpt. Cunningham has asked me to pass along his phone # so you can speak
directly with him regarding this matter - 704-336-4098. Should you or your attorney wish to speak
with an attorney for the City, Ms. Emken is your point of contact -
704-353-1062.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Robert E. Hagemann<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">PH:704.336.2651<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">FAX: 704.632.8331<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sent: Monday, November 10, 2014 1:47 PM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To: Carlee, Ron<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Cc: Clodfelter, Daniel; Hagemann, Robert; Emken, Judy; Cunningham,
Brian; Monroe, Rodney; sharrison@charlotteobserver.com; Rick Thames<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Subject: CMPD Arrests and Discipline Public Records Request<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">citynewswatch charlotte <citynewswatch@gmail.com><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">to barnesforcharl., cfallon, info, vlyles, pkinsey, aaustin, lmayfield,
gaphipps, jautry, krsmith, ed, Robert, Ron, Daniel, Judy, Brian, Rodney,
sharrison, Rick <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mr. Carlee, Mr. Mayor and City Council Members,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mr. Hagemann has sent an email which does not address the fact that
multiple arrests were not documented by Brian Cunningham on what was presented
as complete and truthful, how that was allowed to happen, or whether there are
similar inaccuracies in the disciplinary statements provided. Also not addressed is whether CMPD officers
are given special treatment when arrested.
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">These questions were addressed to you, Manager Carlee, as were the
questions in section 2 which requires PUBLIC RECORDS of INTERNAL AFFAIRS
COMPLAINTS and DISPOSITIONS, redacted as appropriate, POLICIES, and the other
items listed, along with a projected time these items will be provided. Mr. Hagemann has again ignored the PUBLIC
RECORDS REQUEST for these items. Please
provide a correct legal response to each item rather than his general thoughts
or perception that he thinks what seems to be avoidance of the law will be
proper by the City Attorney on behalf of the City of Charlotte, the City
Manager or its representatives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Please reply to each issue addressed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thank You,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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citynewswatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09166768367697949546noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684274417834349897.post-11598151963461868972014-10-12T22:56:00.000-04:002014-10-12T22:56:35.434-04:00Tax Increase Bond Referendum in Mecklenburg County<a href="http://www.citynewswatch.blogspot.com/" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15.3333330154419px; line-height: 22.5px;">Citynewswatch</a><i> editorial focus:</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">County Commissioner Matthew Ridenhour wrote a compelling editorial to the Charlotte Observer regarding the upcoming bond referendum when voters will get to choose whether or not we have a .25% tax increase billed primarily to pay for certain pay raises for teachers and other Charlotte Mecklenburg School expenses, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte Mecklenburg Public Libaries, the Arts & Science Council and Charlotte Chamber. As Ridenhour points out, there's no guarantee the money would be used that way even with the vague plan offered now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The proposed tax itself has been poorly explained. There is no good plan for how the money would be distributed. No guarantee that the taxes, once established, would be used for only that purpose. No good plan for how to decide which teachers are deserving of what amount of money. Ridenhour explains that none of the groups who would benefit from the tax were consulted in forming a plan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is another example of poor leadership, poor planning, and pandering to "for the children, because our teachers deserve it" in an effort to slap us all with more taxes. It's another failure of local and state government. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yes, our children deserve a better education than the average they are receiving now. Yes, there are many wonderful teachers who are long overdue for a raise. We are losing good teachers and failing to attract good teachers because of low pay. That's not an excuse to hike taxes again, drive business base and jobs into other areas and lower the available money and talent to sustain the education funds we have. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The education and political leaders need to do what business and home owners do when revenue does not meet spending: decrease spending and increase your efficiency. Drive costs down. Look at improvements within budgets. Find ways to attract more revenue. Most businesses don't have the luxury of simply pricing themselves higher, or they price themselves completely out of the market. Voters need to pay attention and require better planning and accountability. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ridenhour states "<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15.3333330154419px; line-height: 22.5px;"><span style="color: #444444;"><i>Some have also said that if we do not raise taxes now, we will never have this opportunity to do so again</i></span>." <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.citynewswatch.blogspot.com/">Citynewswatch </a></span>editorial board suggests that raising taxes should not always be the proposed solution for every struggle that arises in governing. In fact, raising taxes often makes the burden higher, leading to fewer jobs, less business, personal & property tax available, higher crime, and a cascade of problems to deal with. We can't tax and spend our way out of effective leadership. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here is <a href="http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2014/10/11/5233799/should-voters-support-sales-tax.html#.VDrTWfldXJF">Commissioner Ridenhour's editorial</a> from the Charlotte Observer in it's entirety (<span style="background-color: yellow;">emphasis added</span>):</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="color: #444444;">In a few weeks voters will have the opportunity to vote on the quarter-cent sales tax referendum. Proponents will tell you the funds will go to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools teacher pay raises, CPCC salary raises, the Arts and Science Council and libraries. Certainly, these are worthy of support. One would be hard-pressed to find someone who thinks that teachers are adequately compensated, or that our libraries are positioned to handle the increasing demand on their services. Some have also said that if we do not raise taxes now, we will never have this opportunity to do so again. However, this is too important to be pushed through without analysis and thoughtful consideration.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Unfortunately, a plan devoid of vision and thoughtful consideration is exactly what is being presented to voters.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">A good community plan would have the input of the full Board of County Commissioners, CMS, CPCC, the ASC, the Library, the Charlotte Chamber, the General Assembly, the city and towns and other community stakeholders. Not one of those groups was consulted before commissioners voted 5-4 to place the referendum on the ballot.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">A good fiscal plan would ensure a reliable funding source for teacher salaries. Sales tax is more volatile than property taxes. We are not so far removed from the Great Recession that we have forgotten the impact it had on consumer spending. We will have another recession. Is it fiscally prudent to promise $28 million a year to teachers when a slowdown in the economy will mean we cannot fulfill those promises?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">A good plan would not raise the sales tax, which is regressive. Regressive taxes disproportionately hurt the poor and middle class. When legislators ushered in tax reform, they expanded the tax base by taxing goods and services not previously taxed. People criticized that, saying the regressive nature of the sales tax would hurt the poor and middle class. If that criticism was true then, then it is true now.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: white;">A good strategic plan would be sustainable, with a clear understanding of the long-term effects on the community. Increasing the sales tax is a one-time means to address teacher pay. What happens in two or three years when teacher pay is an issue again? The sales tax will no longer be an option – we will already have exhausted it. We will be right back where we are right now. </span><span style="background-color: yellow;">There has been no analysis</span><span style="background-color: white;"> on the impact to businesses and consumer purchasing habits. Will businesses source supplies outside of Mecklenburg? Will this drive consumers to make larger purchases outside of the county? We do not know, because there has been no independent study.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: white;">The right plan would address these concerns, but would also ensure the funds go to the stated organizations. This plan cannot do that. By law, this sales tax revenue cannot be restricted to a specific obligation. </span><span style="background-color: yellow;">All it takes is a majority vote of the county commissioners and the funds would go to other areas. To those who think this could never happen, look no further than to Social Security, the Highway Trust Fund, or the N.C. Education Lottery.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">It is understandable that the organizations which would benefit from the sales tax have spoken out in favor of it. I do not think that this is the right tool for the job, though. The right tool is one which is fiscally responsible, sustainable and has broad community support. The right plan is to increase teacher supplements through our property tax revenue. We want to recruit and retain the best teachers out there – on that we all agree – and I believe we can do that. We will do that. It takes the right plan – not the one being presented to voters next month.</span><br />
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citynewswatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09166768367697949546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684274417834349897.post-46709713253732753942014-07-25T16:01:00.002-04:002014-07-25T16:11:37.642-04:0024 Hours of Booty Bicycle Fundraiser starts TONIGHT<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>Please excuse the lateness of this announcement, but check to see how you can participate in this excellent cancer-fighting charity in Charlotte's 24 Hours of Booty bicycle fundraiser starting at <span style="color: red;">7 p.m. this evening </span>and continuing for 24 non-stop hours. As they say, "Ride, Cheer, Volunteer!"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">July 25-26, 2014 7 p.m. - 7 p.m. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Charlotte's Myers Park neighborhood is home to the original Booty Loop. In partnership with presenting sponsor, Levine Cancer Institute, 24 Hours of Booty Charlotte will celebrate its thirteenth year and host 1,200 riders who will raise more than $1.2 million for cancer research and survivorship. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Booty Loop is in the beautiful Myers Park neighborhood. At the center of it all is Bootyville, our own little city, which also serves as the event headquarters over the 24 hours at Myers Park Traditional School. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">CLICK <b><u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.24hoursofbooty.org/site/PageServer?pagename=rides_charlotte">HERE</a></span></u></b> FOR MORE INFORMATION </span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Awesome effort by everyone involved for a great cause!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Also check out <a href="http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2014/07/24/5065210/for-one-family-24-hours-of-booty.html#.U9K0vvldVbF"><b>this article</b></a> in the Charlotte Observer with personal stories of how our neighbors have been affected by cancer and by this wonderful event.</span></div>
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<br />citynewswatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09166768367697949546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684274417834349897.post-75387359365357026872014-05-26T18:09:00.000-04:002014-05-26T18:09:47.782-04:00Too Many for Too Long<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Today and every day, please remember those who gave everything so we can have our freedom. Remember those who sacrificed and their families. Give any way you are able to them and to those who are serving now and veterans struggling to come fully home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>citynewswatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09166768367697949546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684274417834349897.post-23399234785608315082014-05-16T03:02:00.000-04:002014-05-16T03:02:19.144-04:00Have a Clean House, Help Charities<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Clean out your house, and take the quality, usable pieces you don't need anymore to local Goodwill and Habitat Restores listed below. Bring your clean, gently used furniture, computers, clothing, dishes, and other items to donate this Saturday. You will feel good in your clean home and help others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Event details at </span><a href="http://www.metrolinarestores.org/" style="background-color: white; color: #136aa8; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.metrolinarestores.org</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">• Habitat for Humanity of Gaston County ReStore, 1840 E. Franklin Blvd., Gastonia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">• Habitat for Humanity of York County ReStore, 825 N. Anderson Road, Rock Hill, S.C.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">• Charlotte Habitat for Humanity ReStore, 1133 N. Wendover Road, Charlotte.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">• Our Towns Habitat for Humanity Restore, 20414 N. Main St., Cornelius.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">• Our Towns Habitat for Humanity Restore, 121 Norman Station Blvd., Mooresville.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">• Habitat for Humanity of Cabarrus County ReStore, 2902 S. Cannon Blvd. Kannapolis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">• Habitat for Humanity of Iredell County ReStore, 1382 Shelton Ave., Statesville.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">• Habitat for Humanity of Catawba County ReStore, 772 Fourth St. SW, Hickory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">• Habitat for Humanity of Lincoln County ReStore, 809 E. Sycamore St. Lincolnton.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Stuart Watson, investigative reporter from WCNC in Charlotte, has asked many of the right questions over the years to uncover some of the corruption in Charlotte local government. Evidence has been in the public for years, but scant media coverage (apologies to Stuart Watson) and complete denial by current and past administrations has allowed corruption to fester. This story is worth viewing if you haven't already seen it:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">click to see <a href="http://www.wcnc.com/news/iteam/NBC-Charlotte-questioned-Cannon-for-years-252797711.html">STUART WATSON'S REPORT HERE</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">See District Judge Tyawdi Hands (pictured on left) swearing Cannon (center) in as Mayor of Charlotte for his very short-lived time in office before arrest on Federal Charges. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Charlotte Observer did write an <a href="http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2014/01/14/4611234/cannon-owes-public-parking-tax.html#.U0DvKfldWbE">editorial</a> about "problems" with Cannon's firm, E-Z Parking, not paying fair taxes. They wrote it <i>after</i> the election.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.899999618530273px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then there's the issue that Cannon faced tax liens of $193,000 with the Internal Revenue Service and "side-stepped" that information to voters. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2014/03/29/4804057/former-charlotte-mayor-patrick.html#.U0Dxd_ldWbE">THIS </a> April 6, 2014 Charlotte Observer Article includes the following information about Cannon's history and refers to the recent affidavit for his federal charges:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>In answers on an Observer questionnaire, Cannon wrote that he had never been charged with a crime. In fact, he was convicted in 1988 of failing to support an out-of-wedlock daughter. At the time, Cannon said he was so young he didn’t realize it was a criminal conviction, and didn’t know he owed child support.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>“I want to thank my family for their sacrifice that they’ve made, being both victims and praised for the 12 years I’ve been in office. My wife, especially, for enduring, oh in some cases, good times, but in some cases, bad times, particularly from one that dealt with the spread of vicious rumors that weren’t true, to assassinate my character on a matter that in my family’s mind as well as my own, is an abomination unto God, that also sent a few media outlets into wild-goose chases.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The press is supposed to be part of keeping our officials honest. But how many people even heard the allegations of dishonesty and tax fraud before Cannon was elected? There was barely a mention in local news.</span><br />
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<br />citynewswatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09166768367697949546noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684274417834349897.post-37518331848022463032014-04-01T01:19:00.000-04:002014-04-01T01:19:54.745-04:00After Mayor Patrick Cannon Arrested, Charlotte City Council Defers Choice<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Charlotte City Council met tonight and voted to pass a motion postponing choice of a new Mayor of Charlotte until next Monday, April 7th. Several members expressed that they wanted a little more time to hear from constituents, even though voters will not be given a direct voice. Behind the scenes, it doesn't seem there is consensus supporting one candidate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Some citizens have come forward asking for a new election in November, but that would require legislative intervention from State representatives, and many local elected officials balked at the notion of requesting assistance from Raleigh. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mayor Patrick Cannon has been arrested and charged last week on federal corruption charges, including violations of the Hobbs Extortion Act, using his office, Theft or Bribery, and Wire Fraud. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If convicted, there should be a hefty sentence to demonstrate that "leaders" are not above the law. Cannon's wife is implicated in the affidavit, but she has not been arrested. Pity and sadness should be for the Cannons' children. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">More arrests for corruption in Charlotte may be on the way. Probably a number of locals are very nervous. Remember that the $48,000 and other gifts allegedly accepted by Cannon are only the items documented in the undercover sting <i><b>after other allegations surfaced</b></i>. There may be more. And there may be other people who are finally caught. Now that the FBI has finally gotten an investigation underway, why not clean house? </span></div>
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citynewswatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09166768367697949546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684274417834349897.post-27983409381267862512014-03-10T13:44:00.000-04:002014-03-10T13:44:48.621-04:00VOCATIONAL TRAINING IN A CHARLOTTE PUBLIC CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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young men and women in Charlotte who will not complete conventional high school
programs and are interested in vocational training indicated in these flyers, though the name of the school includes the term "entrepreneurs." There may be
benefits to focusing on preparation for a different route than direct to full-time college, and here is some information about a meeting March 15th to discuss one
such proposal from the program director:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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word about the Entrepreneur High School Information Day </span></i></div>
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<b>82%</b> of area high school students don’t complete a college degree in four to six
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them?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Welfare? Prison?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Our new charter high school
(EHS) prepares students for a job and/or equips them with the tools to start
their own business by integrating advanced vocational training and relevant
world-class education!!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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for more information- <a href="http://www.goehs.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.GoEHS.org</span></a>, and then...<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Attend the Information Day
on Saturday, March 15th from 11 am to 2 pm. (See the flyer below.) This
event will take place at 5431 Hickory Grove Road. We will give a presentation
on the school at 11:30 am, 12:30 am and 1:30 pm.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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an opportunity to ask questions, engage with board members and get a sense of
the corporate support garnered thus far.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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2014 is underway, and they are in the process of interviewing applicants.
Interested students/parents can start the process by applying online at <a href="http://www.goehs.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">www.GoEHS.org</span></a>.</span></i><i><span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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704.232.2096 – cell<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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citynewswatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09166768367697949546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684274417834349897.post-74690773979193869592014-01-22T00:24:00.004-05:002014-01-22T00:24:56.790-05:00CRB Reform Passed by City CouncilCharlotte's City Council passed some of the proposed changes to the Citizens Review Board code by a vote November 25, 2013. It contains significant changes, though not all the recommendations of either the Charlotte School of Law or of citizens seeking reform, including a coalition of groups called CRB REFORM NOW. <br />
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The changes require the police department to deliver the entire Internal Affairs file of the contested charges to the CRB. Before, only a summary of information chosen by the police department was released to the Board.<br />
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The changes allow the CRB to ask for additional evidence.<br />
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The big request for subpoena power has not been met.<br />
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See the changes <a href="http://charmeck.org/city/charlotte/cityclerk/councilrelated/documents/agenda%20attachments/2013/11.25.13.pdf">here</a> (deletions from original shown in strikeout text, additions are underlined):<br />
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<b>ORDINANCE NUMBER: 5259 AMENDING CHAPTER 16</b><br />
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<b>AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 16 OF THE CHARLOTTE CITY CODE </b><br />
<b>ENTITLED “POLICE” </b><br />
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BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Charlotte, North Carolina, that:<br />
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Section 1. Article II, Division 2 of Chapter 16 of the Charlotte City Code is amended as<br />
follows:<br />
DIVISION 2. - CITIZENS REVIEW BOARD<br />
Sec. 16-56. - Creation; composition; terms; compensation; appointments; vacancies; quorum; removal.<br />
Sec. 16-57. - Meetings.<br />
Sec. 16-58. - Duties and responsibilities.<br />
Sec. 16-59. - <strike>Appeal procedure</strike>Request for appeal hearing.<br />
Sec. 16-60. - <strike>Necessity for hearing</strike>Hearing.<br />
Sec. 16-61. - <strike>Hearing procedures</strike>Reserved.<br />
Sec. 16-62. - Action by chief of police and city manager.<br />
Sec. 16-63. - City clerk's duties; meeting places; staff.<br />
Sec. 16-64. - <strike>Reports</strike>Miscellaneous.<br />
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<b>Sec. 16-56. - Creation; composition; terms; compensation; appointments; vacancies; </b><br />
<b>quorum; removal. </b><br />
(a) There is hereby established a citizens review board to be composed of 11 members: five members<br />
to be appointed by the city council, three members to be appointed by the mayor and three to be<br />
appointed by the city manager. The appointing authorities shall ensure that the members of the<br />
board are representative of the community.<br />
(b) Members must be continually domiciled within the county and must be registered to vote within the<br />
county.<br />
(c) Board members shall attend and successfully complete the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police<br />
Department's Citizens' Academy and receive training on relevant <strike>legal and</strike>, policy <u>and cultural </u><br />
<u>awareness</u> issues as required by the city manager. This training must be completed prior to any<br />
board appointee serving as a member of the board.<br />
(d) Individuals with a felony conviction or a class A1 misdemeanor conviction shall not be eligible to<br />
serve on the board. In addition, individuals with a class 1 or class 2 misdemeanor conviction within<br />
three years of their nomination for appointment shall be ineligible to serve. Further, conviction of or a plea of nolo contendere to a felony, a class A1 misdemeanor, a class 1 misdemeanor, or a class 2<br />
misdemeanor during the term of office shall automatically terminate membership on the board,<br />
irrespective of any appeals. Board members charged with a felony, a class A1 misdemeanor, a class<br />
1 misdemeanor, or a class 2 misdemeanor during a term of office shall be automatically suspended<br />
until disposition of the charge, and a quorum shall be established from the remaining membership.<br />
(e) Prior to serving, each board member must sign a confidentiality agreement that is satisfactory to the city and which shall require that members maintain as confidential any information classified as<br />
confidential by state law or otherwise classified as confidential by the city.<br />
(f) The members shall serve staggered terms of office for three years, with no member serving more<br />
than two consecutive terms.<br />
(g) The board shall elect a chairperson and vice-chairperson from the membership.<br />
(h) When a vacancy occurs, the original appointing authority shall appoint a person to serve for the<br />
unexpired term of the vacant position.<br />
(i) Six members shall constitute a quorum in order to hold business meetings and hearings. Members<br />
are required to attend all business meetings and hearings in accordance with the attendance policies<br />
promulgated by the city council. Vacancies resulting from a member's failure to attend the required<br />
number of meetings shall be filled as provided in this section.<br />
(j) All members shall serve without compensation.<br />
(k) Members of the board shall be subject to removal from office by a two-thirds vote of the city council.<br />
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<b>Sec. 16-57. - Meetings. </b><br />
(a) The citizens review board shall hold regular meetings as scheduled by resolution of the board. The<br />
affirmative vote of a majority, a quorum being present, shall be required before any recommendation<br />
is made on any matter considered. A majority vote shall be required for any decision made by the<br />
board.<br />
(b) Special meetings may be called by the chairperson to carry out any duties described in section 16-58 by giving each member notice in writing, by providing personal notice, or by leaving notice at the<br />
member's residence not less than 72 hours prior to the time set for the meeting.<br />
Sec. 16-58. - Duties and responsibilities.<br />
(a) The citizens review board shall:<br />
(1) Serve as an advisory board to the chief of police, the city manager, and the city council.<br />
(2) <strike>Review</strike><u>Hear</u> appeals by the citizens who filed complaints of disciplinary dispositions imposed by<br />
the chief of police or his designee relating to allegations of misconduct against a sworn police<br />
officer. The board may hear appeals of complaints regarding alleged violations of the following<br />
rules: use of force, unbecoming conduct, and arrest, search and seizure. In addition, the<br />
disposition of the review of any discharge of a firearm by an officer which results in the death or<br />
injury of a person may be appealed to this board by the person injured or the next of kin if death<br />
occurs. When a death results and there is no next of kin, any member of the city council or the<br />
chairperson of the community relations committee may file an appeal pursuant to section 16-59.<br />
The disciplinary actions that may be reviewed shall include the findings of the chief of police that<br />
an allegation has been categorized as: sustained, not sustained, exonerated, or unfounded. The<br />
dispositions that may be reviewed for the discharge of firearms shall include: justified, not<br />
justified, or accidental. The board may review only appeals of citizen complaints arising from<br />
incidents that occur after the effective date of the ordinance from which this section derives. The<br />
board may not review appeals of decisions of the city manager or the civil service board.<u> No </u><br />
<u>hearing conducted under this division is intended to supplant civil or criminal remedies or </u><br />
<u>proceedings, nor civil service proceedings under section 4.61 of the city charter. </u><br />
(3) <strike>Determine whether to hold an appeal hearing. </strike>The board <strike>may hold an appeal hearing only </strike><br />
<strike>when it appears, based upon a preponderance of the evidence, that the disposition of the </strike><br />
<strike>disciplinary charges entered by the chief of police constituted an abuse of</strike>, <u>in its </u>discretion <strike>by </strike><br />
<strike>the chief of police.</strike><br />
(4) <strike>Conduct appeal hearings, which include receiving and evaluating testimony and issuing findings </strike><br />
<strike>of fact and</strike>, <u>also may make</u> recommendations to the chief of police and the city manager. <strike>The </strike><br />
<strike>duty and power of the board is to conduct an appeal hearing and to determine whether, by a </strike><br />
<strike>preponderance of the evidence, the chief of police abused his discretion by: </strike><br />
<strike>a. Finding in a disciplinary action that allegations were sustained, not sustained, exonerated </strike><br />
<u>concerning policies, procedures </u><strike>or unfounded; or</strike><u>training of police officers.</u><br />
<strike>b. Finding in connection with the discharge of a firearm that the officer's action was justified, </strike><br />
<strike>not justified, or accidental. </strike><br />
(5(4) As required by state law, maintain as confidential all personnel information to which the<br />
members gain access as a member of the board. In addition, board members shall be required<br />
to execute and adhere to a confidentiality agreement that is satisfactory to the city.<br />
(b) The citizens review board shall promulgate rules and regulations to effect its exercise of authority<br />
under this division and shall keep such rules and regulations on file with the city clerk.<br />
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<b>Sec. 16-59. - <strike>Appeal procedure </strike>Request for appeal hearing. </b><br />
(a) Under this division, all complaints will be investigated by the police department. Upon completion of an investigation, the chief of police shall, consistent with state law, notify the complainant by certified letter of the disposition of the complaint. The complainant also shall be informed of his right to appeal the decision of the department to the citizens review board.<br />
(b) All appeals to the citizens review board<strike> </strike>must be <u>made on a form approved by the board and </u><strike>filed in writing </strike>with the city clerk's office. The request must state the <strike>reason for the appeal and the </strike><u>nature of the incident and the basis on which the complainant contends that the action taken by the chief of </u><br />
<u>police was in error</u>. The citizen may seek the assistance of the community relations committee in<br />
drafting and filing his appeal. The citizen must file this appeal within <strike>seven</strike><u>thirty (30)</u> calendar days of receiving written notice of the disposition of the complaint. The citizen must provide a valid current address for the purpose of all notifications required to be made pursuant to this division.<br />
(c) Upon receiving a request for an appeal hearing, the chairperson of the board shall direct the chief of police to<strike> prepare a summary of</strike><span style="background-color: yellow;"><u>deliver the entire internal affairs case </u></span><strike>and forward the summary</strike>file to the chairperson city clerk for delivery to the members of the citizens review board. <strike>A meeting of the board will be held to discuss the</strike>The chairperson may request <strike>for appeal. </strike><u>additional information from the complainant if deemed necessary. </u><br />
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<b>Sec. 16-60. - Necessity for hearing. </b><br />
<u style="background-color: yellow;">(a) (d) The board may elect not to hear an appeal under this division if civil, criminal or civil service </u><br />
<u style="background-color: yellow;">proceedings are instituted and pending. </u><br />
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<b>Sec. 16-60. Hearing. </b><br />
(a) Upon receiving a request for an appeals hearing,<strike> a meeting of </strike>the board <strike>will be held</strike> <u>shall hold a </u><br />
<u>hearing within </u><strike>30</strike>forty-five (45) calendar days of the request. <u>Notwithstanding the foregoing, the board may elect not to hear an appeal under this division if civil, criminal or civil service proceedings are instituted and pending. </u><br />
(b) <strike>(b) In </strike><u>The hearing shall be conducted in closed session to ensure compliance with all applicable </u><br />
<u>laws, including those related to the confidentiality of criminal information or intelligence and personnel matters. The parties may be represented at the hearing by counsel or any other person of their choice. </u><br />
<u>(c) The hearing will begin with the complainant and the department respectively, each in the absence of the other and the other’s representatives, presenting statements of facts to the board. Following </u><br />
<u>receipt of the statements of facts, the board may, in its discretion, request additional statements, </u><br />
<u>material, or information from the complainant and/or the department. After receiving the parties’ </u><br />
<u>statements and any additional material or information provided, the board shall conduct deliberations </u><br />
<u>in the absence of the complainant and the department. </u><br />
(d) <u>Following the deliberations contemplated in subsection (c), in </u>a public session,<u> and consistent with section 16-58(a)(4)</u>, the chairperson shall indicate whether the board has decided to <u>hold a hearing </u><br />
<u>conduct additional evidentiary fact-finding</u> and, if so, shall announce the date, time and place of the<br />
<strike>hearing.</strike><u>proceedings. In order to conduct additional evidentiary fact-finding, the board must </u><br />
<u>determine that there is substantial evidence of error regarding the disposition of the disciplinary </u><br />
<u>charges entered by the chief of police.</u> The chairperson shall notify the complainant and other<br />
involved parties in writing of the decision and, if <strike>a hearing is</strike><u>evidentiary fact-finding proceedings are </u><br />
to be held, also shall advise all parties in writing of the reasons for the decision to hold a<br />
<strike>hearing</strike><u>evidentiary fact-finding proceedings. </u><br />
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<strike>(eSec. 16-61. - Hearing procedures. </strike><br />
(a) If the citizens review board decides to conduct <strike>a hearing, it</strike><u>evidentiary fact-finding proceedings, </u><br />
<u>those proceedings</u> shall be concluded within<strike> 30</strike><u>forty-five (45) </u>calendar days of the date of the<br />
decision to hold <strike>an appeal hearing.</strike><u>them pursuant to section 16-60.</u> Should the complainant or the<br />
department desire <strike>a hearing</strike><u>to continue the evidentiary fact-finding proceedings to a </u>date other than<br />
that set by the board, the complainant or the department shall submit a written request for a change<br />
of the <strike>hearing </strike>date <u>of the proceedings</u>, stating the reason for the request. The chairperson shall<br />
approve or disapprove such request, provided that such request is received by the board at least<br />
seven calendar days prior to the date <strike>of</strike><u>set for </u>the<strike> hearing.</strike> <u>evidentiary fact-finding proceedings.</u> For<br />
good cause, the chairperson may continue the hearingproceedings from time to time, but all appeals<br />
must be concluded within <strike>30</strike><u>sixty (60) </u>calendar days from the date of the decision to hold an <strike>appeal </strike><br />
<strike>hearing. The hearing shall be conducted in a closed session, with at least six members of the board </strike><br />
<strike>present</strike><u>evidentiary fact-finding proceeding. </u><br />
<u>(b)f) Evidentiary fact-finding proceedings shall be conducted as follows: </u><br />
(1) All witnesses must testify under oath.<br />
(c2) All of the proceedings before the board shall be recorded.<br />
(d3) All parties involved shall have the right to be represented by counsel or any other person<br />
of their choice.<br />
(e) <u style="background-color: yellow;">4) The board shall receive and evaluate evidence which may include testimony of the </u><br />
<u style="background-color: yellow;">complainant, officers, and other witnesses, and documentary and physical evidence. </u>The<br />
complainant shall offer evidence first in support of his appeal. The department <strike>and officer </strike>shall<br />
have the right to cross examine the complainant and his witnesses. Thereafter, the department<br />
<strike>and officer </strike>shall have the right to offer evidence, and the complainant shall have the right to cross<br />
examine the department's <strike>and officer's</strike> witnesses. At the conclusion of all the evidence, the<br />
complainant or his representative, followed by the department <strike>and officer</strike>, may make a closing<br />
statement.<br />
(f5) Members of the board may question witnesses or request additional information or further<br />
investigation at any point in the process.<br />
(g6) Members who, in a particular case, have a conflict of interest shall not attend or<br />
participate in the<strike> hearing</strike><u>proceedings </u>and decision-making process.<br />
<strike>(h) Within ten calendar days after</strike>(g) At the conclusion of the <strike>hearing</strike><u>evidentiary fact-finding </u><br />
<u>proceedings</u>, the board shall <strike>issue its written findings</strike><u>determine whether, by the greater weight of </u><br />
<u>fact to</u>the evidence, the chief of police<strike> and the city manager </strike>along<u>clearly erred by:</u><br />
<u>(1) Finding in a disciplinary action that allegations were sustained, not sustained, exonerated or </u><br />
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<u>unfounded; or</u><br />
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<u>(2) Finding in connection</u><strike> with a recommendation. The findings</strike><u>the discharge </u>of <strike>fact must</strike> <u>a firearm </u><br />
<u>that the officer's action was justified, not justified, or accidental. </u><br />
<u>(h) Upon conclusion of the appeal process, the complainant shall</u> be <strike>supported by a preponderance of </strike><br />
<strike>the evidence and approved by a majority</strike><u>notified in writing of the decision </u>of the board <strike>who were </strike><br />
<strike>present at the hearing. </strike><br />
<u>and, to the extent permitted by applicable law, the reasons for the decision. </u><br />
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<b>Sec. 16-<u>61. Reserved. </u></b><br />
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<b>Sec. 16-62. - Action by chief of police and city manager.</b><br />
(a) The chief of police shall review the<u> determination and </u>findings of fact of the citizens review board and any other information at his disposal. The chief of police shall take such action as he deems<br />
appropriate, consistent with state law and city policy. The chief of police will then, within seven<br />
calendar days of the receipt of the board's recommendations, report his decision to the city manager.<br />
(b) The city manager shall review the decision of the chief of police and, within seven calendar days of the receipt of the decision of the chief of police, take such action as he deems appropriate,<br />
consistent with state law, and shall advise the chief of police of any intended action.<br />
(c) The city manager shall notify all parties, including the citizens review board, of the decision of the city manager consistent with state law and city policy. The city manager also shall advise the city council of the outcome of the appeal. Notifications made under this subsection must be made within seven calendar days of the date that the decision of the city manager was initially communicated to the<br />
chief of police.<br />
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<b>Sec. 16-63. - City clerk's duties; meeting places; staff. </b><br />
(a) Under this division the city clerk shall:<br />
(1) Act as secretary to the citizens review board;<br />
(2) Keep the minutes of its meetings;<br />
(3) Be custodian of all papers and records pertaining to the business of the board; and<br />
(4) Perform such other duties as the board may require.<br />
(b) The city council shall provide sufficient and reasonable rooms and use of public buildings for<br />
meetings and hearings of the board as may be necessary.<br />
(c) The city manager shall assign staff to support the functions of the citizens review board.<br />
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<b>Sec. 16-64. - <strike>Reports</strike><u> Miscellaneous. </u></b><br />
<u>(a) </u>The citizens review board shall make a semiannual and an annual report of its actions for each<br />
preceding year. These reports shall be kept in the files of the board and a copy delivered to the chief<br />
of police, city manager, city council and the community relations committee.<br />
<u>(b) The board shall receive annually a report from the police chief concerning all complaints against </u><br />
<u>department personnel and the disposition of such complaints. </u><br />
<u>(c) The board shall recommend changes to the citizens review process to city council as deemed </u><br />
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<u>appropriate and approved by a majority of the board. </u><br />
<u>(d) The board shall promote its visibility within the community by adopting procedures to educate citizens about the board process, and enhance citizen participation through process and procedural changes as deemed appropriate. </u><br />
<u>(e) The board shall conduct legal, policy and cultural awareness training for its members, in addition to that provided pursuant to section 16-56(c), on a continuing basis as deemed appropriate. </u><br />
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<u>Section 2.</u> This ordinance is effective immediately and shall apply to all appeals to the Citizens<br />
Review Board filed after the effective date.<br />
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Approved as to form: _____________________ (signed by Carolyn D. Johnson)<br />
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City Attorney<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">CRB (Citizens Review Board) Reform
will be the subject of a Charlotte City Council discussion Monday, Nov. 11,
2013 at the regular meeting. Prior to
that, City Manager Ron Carlee at 5 p.m. in room 267 of the Government Center,
open to the public.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Citizens are encouraged to attend this presentation and demonstrate your desire for a fair process and better police/citizen relations. Even if all requested changes pass, there will be need for additional reform. To date, much of the information presented by the CRB has been deemed useless, and much has been incorrect. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Citizens brought up some relevant
points at the <b><u><a href="http://charlottenc.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2511">October 28thCouncil Meeting</a></u></b>: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Corinne Mack asked: 1) Who appoints
members? 2) What is the criteria to be on board? and 3) Does the Board
membership reflect membership of the City and County?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">She likened a weak reform to a guard
dog with no bite and called for including access to the IA files, and
presenting Officers to the board.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dick Hester, President of the
Charlotte Chapter of the ACLU spoke on behalf of himself and the ACLU
Board. He acknowledged that police have
a difficult and dangerous task, working under stressful and dangerous
conditions. He called for the CRB
raising the level of trust between police and citizens. He also called for CRB to be an <b><i>INDEPENDENT
INVESTIGATIVE</i></b> board, allowing fairness dealing with grievances. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rodney Sadler expressed concerns about
the proposed changes: 1) They appear very modest and even if they get through
Council, would there even be real change?
2) He wants the CRB to have influence over the internal police policy
changes, and for that influence/those changes be binding, 3) that the CRB include
members who are “most often victims” of police misconduct, and 4) that CRB
receive full un-redacted, unedited versions of the IA files in order to have
actual oversight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sadler asked for actual power to
adjudicate, not just appellate power.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">If you watch the <b><u><a href="http://charlottenc.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2511">video</a></u></b></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">, at just before 24 minutes in, Councilman
John Autry asked City Attorney Hagemann: “<b><span style="color: red;">Does the Citizen’s Review Board not see the Internal Affairs
file</span></b>?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">City Attorney Robert Hagemann
answered, “Yes, it does.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Autry replied, “It does (repeating
Hagemann’s answer)? Already?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hagemann said, “Yes. That will be more
explicit in the recommendations I will be making to you.” (Is that what you say to cover that your “yes”
answer is false?)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Autry continued: “So, is there some
difference between the Internal Affairs file and the Case File?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hagemann said, “<b><span style="color: red;">I think there’s a misunderstanding</span></b>.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kinsey then moved the meeting forward, avoiding clarification of “the misunderstanding.” </span><span style="color: red; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This “misunderstanding” is
that Hagemann’s direct answer to Autry’s direct question was not true.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Outgoing Council Member Warren Cooksey
interjected about updates that had come to the Council Manager Relations
Committee he is on which has dealt with the Reform Proposals, then said “… We
did meet. We approved recommendations to
council today. What you should be
expecting to see on your future schedules is a dinner briefing on November 11<sup>th</sup>
and a request for Council action on November 25<sup>th</sup>.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">That didn’t answer the
question, either. Cooksey and Hagemann
know the fact that the full IA file is NOT provided to the CRB. For the City Attorney to seemingly misrepresent the facts about the law or legal process to the public, and for Mayor Kinsey, Cooksey, and others on the committee to
encourage and allow this, is wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Various City of Charlotte staff and
Council/Mayor committee members have also tried to state that making changes to
the CRB would require action from the State Legislature. This does not appear to be true since the </span><b>CRB is formed by <u><a href="http://library.municode.com/index.aspx?clientId=19970">City Ordinance</a></u></b><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"> </span>(Ordinance Book 48, page 104, has <a href="http://charmeck.org/city/charlotte/cityclerk/documents/ordinances/1997/ord%20bk%2048%201997%2006-09.pdf" style="text-decoration: underline;">Ordinance849</a> establishing the entire functioning of the CRB) <b>. City Council has the full power to
change City Ordinance</b><span style="font-size: small;">. True, there
is a </span><b><i><u><a href="ftp://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Bills/1997/Bills/Senate/RTF/S429v2.rtf">state statute</a></u></i></b><span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">which
addresses </span><b><i>only the personnel records </i></b><span style="font-size: small;">involved in the Board decisions. There is no need for legislative action to
cause a 2-year delay in action. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The original establishment of CRB, in
Ordinance 849, begins:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">ORDINANCE
NO. 849 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">AN
ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 16 OF THE CODE <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">OF
THE CITY OF CHARLOTTE BY THE ADDITION OF A <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">NEW
<span style="color: red;">ORDINANCE CREATING A CITIZENS REMEW BOARD</span>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">WHEREAS,
City Council finds that the citizens of the City of Charlotte <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">have
an interest in ensuring the thoroughness and fairness of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Police Department disciplinary process; and <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">WHEREAS,
<b><span style="color: red;">City Council
finds that the City has broad authority</span></b><span style="color: red;"> </span>to
adopt <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">such
an ordinance and that a Citizens Review Board Ordinance is consistent with the broad
authority that the City has <span style="color: red;">to execute the powers, duties, and privileges conferred upon
it by Chapter 160A of the North Carolina General Statutes and confirmed by the
Supreme Court of North Carolina in Homebuilders Association of Charlotte v.
City of Charlotte, 336 NC 37 (1994); and </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">WHEREAS,
City Council finds that under the authority of N.C.G.S. 160A- 168(c)(7), the
City Manager may, with the concurrence of City Council, release information
concerning the employment or nonemployment, promotion, demotion, suspension or
other disciplinary action, reinstatement, transfer, or termination of a city
employee and the reasons for that personnel action provided that before releasing
the information, the City Manager or Council shall determine in writing that
the release is essential to maintaining public confidence in the administration
of city services or to maintaining the level and quality of city services;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Note
the reference to <b><span style="color: red;">N.C.G.S. 160A- 168(c)(7) which does not<i> only </i>apply to CRB issues.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Another misleading item from the CRB Committee’s
last presentation to the Council-Manager Relations committee—and to the
public—was the statement the CRB would “</span><span style="background: white; color: #0070c0; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-shading-themecolor: background1;">Promote the
availability of advocates who would assist citizens through the Internal
Affairs investigative process and the CRB appeal process, including legal
representation, if requested, from organizations such as the Mecklenburg County
Bar Volunteer Lawyer Program</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">” which was placed in an article
from the October 27th Charlotte Observer article “</span><b><i><u><span style="color: #136aa8; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><a href="http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/10/27/4420779/committee-to-vote-on-citizens.html#.UoBNgflthx0">Committee to vote on Citizens Review Board</a></span></u></i></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In reality, there’s currently no such Volunteer
Lawyer Program in existence, and it was never available for direct citizen
help. While it would be nice, putting
out such misinformation as another pipe dream concerning citizens’ rights in
this situation is irresponsible at best.
Citizens should have guaranteed access to legal counsel, provided by the
City, in order to be a fair process. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">CRB Board Members are not required to
have any legal background or assured understanding of the law. Even if they did, they should act as fair and
impartial so the police officers would also receive fair hearings. Police have taxpayer-funded free legal help
from the City Attorneys, and from outside counsel hired at the discretion of
city staff when they feel it’s necessary.
Citizens should have no less. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">When speaker Henry Gunn brought the
topic back to CRB, he asked for “transparency and fairness for everybody,
including the police officer and the citizen.”
He stated that he had been advocating for the open release of the
Internal Affairs files—which is not currently happening—to the CRB Board. See the detailed explanation contained within
a proposed letter CRB Reform Now has supplied to send to council members, shown
below.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Another big issue not covered by
speakers on October 28<sup>th</sup> is why Charlotte’s CRB standard of review
is excessively high, having produced <b><i>NOT ONE RULING IN FAVOR OF A CITIZEN</i></b>
in its existence. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Various City of Charlotte officials
have tried to propagate the myth that it’s a very low standard, based on “preponderance
of discretion” wording within the review.
However, that’s not the difficult part:
it’s the rest of the standard which is ridiculously high, “that the
Chief of Police is guilty of an <b><i>ABUSE OF DISCRETION</i></b>.” This standard is means a finding not based on
the facts of the case, nor even error on the part of the Chief, but that he
must have distinctly <b><i>abused</i></b> his discretion—that no
reasonable chief would ever be able to come to the conclusion exonerating or
failing to find any wrongdoing on the part of the officer—in order to move
forward. That fact, combined with the truth
that the CRB may only ask for IA files, and have stated they are not allowed to
see the whole investigative file, make the current Board completely
ineffectual.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">See the CRB Reform Now site excellent <b><u><a href="http://www.crbreform.com/#!standard-of-review/ctat">explanation</a></u></b>
of the standard of review: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">No other review board has a standard as high as Charlotte’s Citizens
Review Board. Our Board must ask: “whether, by a preponderance of the
evidence, the chief of police abused his discretion.” This “abuse of
discretion” language forces the Board to go well beyond a simple “preponderance
of the evidence” inquiry and requires them to practically accuse the Chief of
Police of misconduct before finding in favor of a citizen. Our Board’s
“abuse of discretion” standard of review is unprecedented in any other
similarly situated review board ordinance across the country. In fact, no other
city, within the top 20 most populous cities in the United States, has a review
board ordinance even containing the term "abuse of discretion.”</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">See the coalition group’s call to
action posted here <a href="http://www.crbreform.com/">www.CRBreform.com</a> :<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt;"><a href="mailto:jamesdistrict2@aol.com?subject=Give%20the%20CRB%20the%20Full%20Internal%20Affairs%20File!" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Impact","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">James Mitchell</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt;"><a href="mailto:warren@warrencooksey.com?subject=Give%20the%20CRB%20the%20Full%20Internal%20Affairs%20File!" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Impact","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Warren Cooksey</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt;"><a href="mailto:MayorProTemCannon@gmail.com?subject=Give%20the%20CRB%20the%20Full%20Internal%20Affairs%20File!" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Impact","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Patrick Cannon</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt;"><a href="mailto:cfallon@charlottenc.gov?subject=Give%20the%20CRB%20the%20Full%20Internal%20Affairs%20File!" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Impact","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Claire Fallon</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt;"><a href="mailto:lmayfield@charlottenc.gov?subject=Give%20the%20CRB%20the%20Full%20Internal%20Affairs%20File!" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Impact","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">LaWana Mayfield</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt;"><a href="mailto:bpickering@charlottenc.gov?subject=Give%20the%20CRB%20the%20Full%20Internal%20Affairs%20File!" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Impact","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Beth Pickering</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt;"><a href="mailto:adulin1@carolina.rr.com?subject=Give%20the%20CRB%20the%20Full%20Internal%20Affairs%20File!" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Impact","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Andy Dulin</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt;"><a href="mailto:jautry@charlottenc.gov?subject=Give%20the%20CRB%20the%20Full%20Internal%20Affairs%20File!" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Impact","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">John Autry</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt;"><a href="mailto:bmaddalon@charlottenc.gov?subject=Give%20the%20CRB%20the%20Full%20Internal%20Affairs%20File!" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Impact","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Billy Maddalon</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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David Howard- info@davidhowardclt.com<br />
Claire Fallon- cfallon@charlottenc.gov<br />
Beth Pickering- bpickering@charlottenc.gov<br />
LaWana Mayfield- lmayfield@charlottenc.gov<br />
Michael Barnes- barnesdistrict4@aol.com<br />
Billy Maddalon- bmaddalon@charlottenc.gov<br />
James Mitchell- jamesdistrict2@aol.com<br />
John Autry- jautry@charlottenc.gov<br />
Andy Dulin- adulin1@carolina.rr.com<br />
Warren Cooksey- warren@warrencooksey.com</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0in;">Dear Council Person:</span><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0in;">Please ensure that any new Citizens Review Board law require that
the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department give the Citizens Review Board a
copy of the applicable internal affairs file, in its entirety, at the very
beginning of each new case the CRB reviews. I have been following the
progress of the Citizens Review Board issue and feel that this is the only way
to currently guarantee that the CRB has all the facts before making a decision.</span><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0in;">I understand that the Citizens Review Board presently has “access”
to the internal affairs file and may therefore obtain internal affairs
information upon request. However, I believe that this is not
enough. Only allowing “access” perpetuates the risks that:</span><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0in;">The Citizens Review Board will
not request relevant information because it is unaware of the information’s
existence;</span><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0in;">2) Confusion will occur
due to imperfect or misunderstood requests;</span><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0in;">3) The Citizens Review
Board will run out of time to make a decision before obtaining relevant
information;</span><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0in;">4) Internal affairs file
information will not be distributed uniformly among different administrations
of City Officials and Councils; and</span><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0in;">5) The Citizens Review
Board will not have all the facts to make a fully educated and fully informed
decision.</span><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0in;">On the other hand, giving the Citizens Review Board the entire
internal affairs file from the beginning will be a simple fix that promises to
make the CRB process run more efficiently, by eliminating the time and expenses
associated with retrievals of requested information. </span><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0in;">Citizens Review Board members undergo Citizens Academy training
and sign confidentiality agreements before becoming members. I trust
their ability to manage confidential information and their judgment in making
sound decisions, so long as they have all the facts. Please ensure that
they do have all the facts by requiring that the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police
Department give them the applicable internal affairs file, in its entirety, at
the beginning of each new case they review. </span><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0in;">Sincerely,</span><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(a) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">There is hereby established a </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit7" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">citizens</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit8" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">review</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit9" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> to be composed of 11 members:
five members to be appointed by the city council, three members to be appointed
by the mayor and three to be appointed by the city manager. The appointing
authorities shall ensure that the members of the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit10" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> are representative of the
community.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(b) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">Members must be continually domiciled within the county and must
be registered to vote within the county.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(c) </span><b style="line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background-color: #ede591; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">Board</span></b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt; padding: 0in;"> members shall attend and successfully complete the Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Police Department's <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit12"></a><b><span style="background: #EDE591;">Citizens</span></b>'
Academy and receive training on relevant legal and policy issues as required by
the city manager. This training must be completed prior to any <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit13"></a><b><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b> appointee
serving as a member of the <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit14"></a><b><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b>.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(d) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">Individuals with a felony conviction or a class A1 misdemeanor
conviction shall not be eligible to serve on the</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit15" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">. In addition, individuals with a
class 1 or class 2 misdemeanor conviction within three years of their
nomination for appointment shall be ineligible to serve. Further, conviction of
or a plea of nolo contendere to a felony, a class A1 misdemeanor, a class 1
misdemeanor, or a class 2 misdemeanor during the term of office shall
automatically terminate membership on the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit16" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">, irrespective of any appeals. </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit17" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">Board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> members
charged with a felony, a class A1 misdemeanor, a class 1 misdemeanor, or a
class 2 misdemeanor during a term of office shall be automatically suspended
until disposition of the charge, and a quorum shall be established from the
remaining membership.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(e) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">Prior to serving, each </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit18" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> member must sign a
confidentiality agreement that is satisfactory to the city and which shall
require that members maintain as confidential any information classified as
confidential by state law or otherwise classified as confidential by the city.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(f) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">The members shall serve staggered terms of office for three years,
with no member serving more than two consecutive terms.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(g) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">The </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit19" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> shall
elect a chairperson and vice-chairperson from the membership.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(h) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">When a vacancy occurs, the original appointing authority shall
appoint a person to serve for the unexpired term of the vacant position.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(i) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">Six members shall constitute a quorum in order to hold business
meetings and hearings. Members are required to attend all business meetings and
hearings in accordance with the attendance policies promulgated by the city
council. Vacancies resulting from a member's failure to attend the required
number of meetings shall be filled as provided in this section.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(j) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">All members shall serve without compensation.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(k) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">Members of the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit20" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> shall be subject to removal from office by a
two-thirds vote of the city council.</span></div>
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<i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #777777; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">(Code 1985, § 16-34)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #555555; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">Sec. 16-57. Meetings.</span></b><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #555555; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-no-proof: yes; padding: 0in;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_5" o:spid="_x0000_i1032"
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(a) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">The </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit21" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">citizens</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit22" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">review</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit23" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> shall
hold regular meetings as scheduled by resolution of the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit24" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">. The affirmative vote of a
majority, a quorum being present, shall be required before any recommendation
is made on any matter considered. A majority vote shall be required for any
decision made by the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit25" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(b) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">Special meetings may be called by the chairperson to carry out any
duties described in</span><a href="http://library.municode.com/HTML/19970/level4/PTIICOOR_CH16PO_ARTIIDE_DIV2CIREBO.html#PTIICOOR_CH16PO_ARTIIDE_DIV2CIREBO_S16-58DURE" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="color: #8a3132;"> section 16-58</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> by giving each member
notice in writing, by providing personal notice, or by leaving notice at the
member's residence not less than 72 hours prior to the time set for the
meeting.</span></div>
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<i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #777777; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">(Code 1985, § 16-35; Ord. No. 2344, § 1,
7-28-2003)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(a) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">The </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit26" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">citizens</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit27" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">review</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit28" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> shall:</span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(1) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">Serve as an advisory </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit29" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> to the chief of police, the
city manager, and the city council.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(2) </span><b style="line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background-color: #ede591; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">Review</span></b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt; padding: 0in;"> appeals by the <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit31"></a><b><span style="background: #EDE591;">citizens</span></b> who filed complaints of
disciplinary dispositions imposed by the chief of police or his designee relating
to allegations of misconduct against a sworn police officer. The <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit32"></a><b><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b> may
hear appeals of complaints regarding alleged violations of the following rules:
use of force, unbecoming conduct, and arrest, search and seizure. In addition,
the disposition of the <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit33"></a><b><span style="background: #EDE591;">review</span></b> of
any discharge of a firearm by an officer which results in the death or injury
of a person may be appealed to this <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit34"></a><b><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b> by the person injured or the
next of kin if death occurs. When a death results and there is no next of kin,
any member of the city council or the chairperson of the community relations
committee may file an appeal pursuant to<a href="http://library.municode.com/HTML/19970/level4/PTIICOOR_CH16PO_ARTIIDE_DIV2CIREBO.html#PTIICOOR_CH16PO_ARTIIDE_DIV2CIREBO_S16-59APPR"><span style="color: #8a3132;"> section 16-59</span></a>. The disciplinary actions
that may be <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit35"></a><b><span style="background: #EDE591;">reviewed</span></b> shall
include the findings of the chief of police that an allegation has been
categorized as: sustained, not sustained, exonerated, or unfounded. The
dispositions that may be <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit36"></a><b><span style="background: #EDE591;">reviewed</span></b> for the discharge of firearms shall include:
justified, not justified, or accidental. The <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit37"></a><b><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b> may <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit38"></a><b><span style="background: #EDE591;">review</span></b> only appeals of <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit39"></a><b><span style="background: #EDE591;">citizen</span></b> complaints
arising from incidents that occur after the effective date of the ordinance
from which this section derives. The <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit40"></a><b><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b> may not <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit41"></a><b><span style="background: #EDE591;">review</span></b>appeals of decisions of the city
manager or the civil service <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit42"></a><b><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b>.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(3) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">Determine whether to hold an appeal hearing. The </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit43" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> may
hold an appeal hearing only when it appears, based upon a preponderance of the
evidence, that the disposition of the disciplinary charges entered by the chief
of police constituted an abuse of discretion by the chief of police.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(4) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">Conduct appeal hearings, which include receiving and evaluating
testimony and issuing findings of fact and recommendations to the chief of
police and the city manager. <span style="color: red;">The duty and power of the </span></span><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit44" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> is to conduct an appeal
hearing and to determine whether, by a preponderance of the evidence, the chief
of police abused his discretion by:</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">a. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">Finding in a disciplinary action that allegations were sustained,
not sustained, exonerated or unfounded; or</span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">b. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">Finding in connection with the discharge of a firearm that the
officer's action was justified, not justified, or accidental.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(5) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">As required by state law, maintain as confidential all personnel
information to which the members gain access as a member of the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit45" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">. In
addition, </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit46" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> members
shall be required to execute and adhere to a confidentiality agreement that is
satisfactory to the city.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(b) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">The </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit47" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">citizens</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit48" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">review</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit49" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> shall
promulgate rules and regulations to effect its exercise of authority under this
division and shall keep such rules and regulations on file with the city clerk.</span></div>
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<i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #777777; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">(Code 1985, § 16-36)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #555555; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">Sec. 16-59. Appeal procedure.</span></b><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #555555; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-no-proof: yes; padding: 0in;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_7" o:spid="_x0000_i1030"
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(a) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">Under this division, all complaints will be investigated by the
police department. Upon completion of an investigation, the chief of police
shall, consistent with state law, notify the complainant by certified letter of
the disposition of the complaint. The complainant also shall be informed of his
right to appeal the decision of the department to the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit50" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">citizens</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit51" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">review</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit52" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(b) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">All appeals to the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit53" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">citizens</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit54" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">review</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit55" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> must be filed in writing with
the city clerk's office. The request must state the reason for the appeal and
the nature of the incident. The </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit56" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">citizen</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> may seek the assistance of
the community relations committee in drafting and filing his appeal. The </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit57" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">citizen</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> must
file this appeal within seven calendar days of receiving written notice of the
disposition of the complaint. The </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit58" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">citizen</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> must provide a valid current
address for the purpose of all notifications required to be made pursuant to
this division.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(c) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">Upon receiving a request for an appeal hearing, the chairperson of
the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit59" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> shall
direct the chief of police to prepare a summary of the case and forward the
summary to the chairperson of the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit60" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">. A meeting of the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit61" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">will be held
to discuss the request for appeal.</span></div>
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<i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #777777; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">(Code 1985, § 16-37)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #555555; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">Sec. 16-60. Necessity for hearing.</span></b><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #555555; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-no-proof: yes; padding: 0in;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_8" o:spid="_x0000_i1029"
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(a) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">Upon receiving a request for an appeals hearing, a meeting of
the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit62" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> will
be held within 30 calendar days of the request.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(b) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">In a public session, the chairperson shall indicate whether
the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit63" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> has
decided to hold a hearing and, if so, shall announce the date, time and place
of the hearing. The chairperson shall notify the complainant and other involved
parties in writing of the decision and, if a hearing is to be held, also shall
advise all parties in writing of the reasons for the decision to hold a
hearing.</span></div>
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<i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #777777; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">(Code 1985, § 16-38; Ord. No. 1779, § 1,
3-26-2001)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(a) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">If the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit64" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">citizens</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit65" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">review</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit66" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> decides
to conduct a hearing, it shall be concluded within 30 calendar days of the date
of the decision to hold an appeal hearing. Should the complainant or the
department desire a hearing date other than that set by the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit67" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">, the complainant or the department
shall submit a written request for a change of the hearing date, stating the
reason for the request. The chairperson shall approve or disapprove such
request, provided that such request is received by the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit68" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> at least seven calendar days
prior to the date of the hearing. For good cause, the chairperson may continue
the hearing from time to time, but all appeals must be concluded within 30
calendar days from the date of the decision to hold an appeal hearing. The
hearing shall be conducted in a closed session, with at least six members of
the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit69" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> present.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(b) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">All witnesses must testify under oath.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(c) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">All of the proceedings before the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit70" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> shall be recorded.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(d) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">All parties involved shall have the right to be represented by
counsel or any other person of their choice.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(e) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">The complainant shall offer evidence first in support of his
appeal. The department and officer shall have the right to cross examine the
complainant and his witnesses. Thereafter, the department and officer shall
have the right to offer evidence, and the complainant shall have the right to
cross examine the department's and officer's witnesses. At the conclusion of
all the evidence, the complainant or his representative, followed by the
department and officer, may make a closing statement.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(f) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">Members of the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit71" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> may question witnesses or request additional
information or further investigation at any point in the process.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(g) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">Members who, in a particular case, have a conflict of interest
shall not attend or participate in the hearing and decision-making process.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(h) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">Within ten calendar days after the conclusion of the hearing,
the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit72" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> shall
issue its written findings of fact to the chief of police and the city manager
along with a recommendation. The findings of fact must be supported by a
preponderance of the evidence and approved by a majority of the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit73" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> who
were present at the hearing.</span></div>
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<i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #777777; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">(Code 1985, § 16-39)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #555555; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">Sec. 16-62. Action by chief of police and
city manager.</span></b><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #555555; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-no-proof: yes; padding: 0in;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(a) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">The chief of police shall </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit74" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">review</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> the findings of fact of
the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit75" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">citizens</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit76" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">review</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit77" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> and
any other information at his disposal. The chief of police shall take such
action as he deems appropriate, consistent with state law and city policy. The
chief of police will then, within seven calendar days of the receipt of
the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit78" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">'s
recommendations, report his decision to the city manager.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(b) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">The city manager shall </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit79" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">review</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> the decision of the chief of
police and, within seven calendar days of the receipt of the decision of the
chief of police, take such action as he deems appropriate, consistent with
state law, and shall advise the chief of police of any intended action.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(c) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">The city manager shall notify all parties, including the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit80" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">citizens</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit81" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">review</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit82" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">, of the
decision of the city manager consistent with state law and city policy. The
city manager also shall advise the city council of the outcome of the appeal.
Notifications made under this subsection must be made within seven calendar
days of the date that the decision of the city manager was initially
communicated to the chief of police.</span></div>
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<b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #555555; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">Sec. 16-63. City clerk's duties; meeting
places; staff.</span></b><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #555555; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-no-proof: yes; padding: 0in;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(a) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">Under this division the city clerk shall:</span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(1) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">Act as secretary to the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit83" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">citizens</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit84" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">review</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit85" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">;</span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(2) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">Keep the minutes of its meetings;</span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">(3) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">Be custodian of all papers and records pertaining to the business
of the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit86" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">;
and</span></div>
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use of public buildings for meetings and hearings of the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit88" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> as may be necessary.</span></div>
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the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit89" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">citizens</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit90" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">review</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit91" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"></a><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">The <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit92"></a><b><span style="background: #EDE591;">citizens</span></b> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit93"></a><b><span style="background: #EDE591;">review</span></b> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit94"></a><b><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b> shall make a semiannual and an
annual report of its actions for each preceding year. These reports shall be
kept in the files of the <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="hit95"></a><b><span style="background: #EDE591;">board</span></b> and a copy delivered to the chief of police,
city manager, city council and the community relations committee.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is the complete text of the <b><u><a href="ftp://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Bills/1997/Bills/Senate/RTF/S429v2.rtf">law</a></u></b> allowing the CRB to review full personnel
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="GATitle">GENERAL
ASSEMBLY OF </a><st1:place w:st="on">NORTH CAROLINA</st1:place><o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="Session">1997 </a>SESSION<o:p></o:p></div>
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S.L. 1997-305<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="BillReference">SENATE
BILL </a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="BillNumber">429</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5684274417834349897" name="BillTitle">AN ACT CLARIFYING LANGUAGE CONCERNING
ATTENDANCE AND PARTICIPATION OF ALTERNATES ON THE CHARLOTTE CIVIL SERVICE BOARD
AND ALLOWING THE CITY OF CHARLOTTE TO DISCLOSE LIMITED PERSONNEL INFORMATION
CONCERNING THE DISPOSITION OF DISCIPLINARY CHARGES AGAINST POLICE OFFICERS.<o:p></o:p></a></div>
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The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Section 1. The
first six sentences of Section 4.61 of the Charter of the City of Charlotte,
being Chapter 713 of the 1965 Session Laws, as rewritten by Chapter 623 of the
1995 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:<o:p></o:p></div>
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"Sec. 4.61. There
is hereby continued a Civil Service Board for the City of <st1:place w:st="on">Charlotte</st1:place>, to consist of five <span class="msoDel"><del cite="mailto:Author" datetime="2000-10-24T00:26">members, </del></span><span class="msoIns"><ins cite="mailto:Author" datetime="2000-10-24T00:26">members and
two alternates; </ins></span>three members and one alternate to be appointed by
the City Council and two members and one alternate to be appointed by the
Mayor. Each member shall serve for a term of three (3) years. In case of a vacancy on the Board, the City
Council or the Mayor, as the case may be, shall fill such vacancy for the
unexpired term of said member. For the
purposes of establishing a quorum of the Board, any combination of Board
members and alternates totaling three shall constitute a quorum. All board
members and alternates shall attend regular meetings for the purposes of
meeting attendance policy and familiarity with Board business and
procedures. Alternates shall attend
hearings when needed due to scheduling conflicts of regular Board members and
shall vote only when serving in the absence of a regular Board member.
Attendance at meetings and continued service on the Board shall be governed by
the attendance policies established by the City Council. Vacancies resulting
from a member's failure to attend the required number of meetings or hearings
shall be filled as provided herein."<o:p></o:p></div>
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Section 2. Section
4.61(7)c. of the Charter of the City of Charlotte, being Chapter 713 of the
1965 Session Laws, as enacted by Chapter 449 of the 1979 Session Laws, reads as
rewritten:<o:p></o:p></div>
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"c. Appeal
hearings. Upon receipt of a citation <span class="msoIns"><ins cite="mailto:Author" datetime="2000-10-24T00:26">for
termination </ins></span>from either Chief or upon receipt of notice of appeal <span class="msoIns"><ins cite="mailto:Author" datetime="2000-10-24T00:26">for a
suspension </ins></span>from any <span class="msoIns"><ins cite="mailto:Author" datetime="2000-10-24T00:26">Civil Service covered police </ins></span>officer <span class="msoDel"><del cite="mailto:Author" datetime="2000-10-24T00:26">or employee
of the Fire or Police Department, </del></span><span class="msoIns"><ins cite="mailto:Author" datetime="2000-10-24T00:26">or firefighter, </ins></span>the
Board shall hold a hearing not less than 15 days nor more than 30 days from the
date the notice of appeal, or the citation, is received by the Board, and shall
promptly notify the officer of the hearing date. <span class="msoIns"><ins cite="mailto:Author" datetime="2000-10-24T00:26">Termination hearings shall be
held with a panel of five made up of any combination of available members or
alternates, and suspension hearings shall be held with a panel of three made up
of any combination of available members or alternates. </ins></span>In the event an officer desires
a hearing at a date other than that set by the Board within the period set
forth above, such officer may file a written request for a change of hearing
date setting forth the reasons for such request, and the Chairman of the Board
is empowered to approve or disapprove such request; provided, that such request
must be received by the Board at least seven days prior to the date set for the
hearing. For good cause, the Chairman of
the Board may set a hearing date other than within the period set forth above,
or may continue the hearing from time to time."<o:p></o:p></div>
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Section 3. G.S.
160A-168(c) reads as rewritten:<o:p></o:p></div>
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"(c) All
information contained in a city employee's personnel file, other than the
information made public by subsection (b) of this section, is confidential and
shall be open to inspection only in the following instances:<o:p></o:p></div>
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(1) The employee or
his duly authorized agent may examine all portions of his personnel file except
(i) letters of reference solicited prior to employment, and (ii) information
concerning a medical disability, mental or physical, that a prudent physician
would not divulge to his patient.<o:p></o:p></div>
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(2) A licensed physician
designated in writing by the employee may examine the employee's medical
record.<o:p></o:p></div>
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(3) A city employee
having supervisory authority over the employee may examine all material in the
employee's personnel file.<o:p></o:p></div>
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(4) By order of a
court of competent jurisdiction, any person may examine such portion of an
employee's personnel file as may be ordered by the court.<o:p></o:p></div>
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(5) An official of
an agency of the State or federal government, or any political subdivision of
the State, may inspect any portion of a personnel file when such inspection is
deemed by the official having custody of such records to be inspected to be
necessary and essential to the pursuance of a proper function of the inspecting
agency, but no information shall be divulged for the purpose of assisting in a
criminal prosecution (of the employee), or for the purpose of assisting in an
investigation of (the employee's) tax liability. However, the official having custody of such
records may release the name, address, and telephone number from a personnel
file for the purpose of assisting in a criminal investigation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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(6) An employee may
sign a written release, to be placed with his personnel file, that permits the
person with custody of the file to provide, either in person, by telephone, or
by mail, information specified in the release to prospective employers,
educational institutions, or other persons specified in the release.<o:p></o:p></div>
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(7) The city
manager, with concurrence of the council, or, in cities not having a manager,
the council may inform any person of the employment or nonemployment,
promotion, demotion, suspension or other disciplinary action, reinstatement,
transfer, or termination of a city employee and the reasons for that personnel
action. Before releasing the
information, the manager or council shall determine in writing that the release
is essential to maintaining public confidence in the administration of city
services or to maintaining the level and quality of city services. This written determination shall be retained
in the office of the manager or the city clerk, and is a record available for
public inspection and shall become part of the employee's personnel file.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins cite="mailto:Author" datetime="2000-10-24T00:26">(8)</ins></span> <span class="msoIns"><ins cite="mailto:Author" datetime="2000-10-24T00:26">In order to
facilitate citizen review of the police disciplinary process, the city manager
or the chief of police, or their designees, may release the disposition of
disciplinary charges against a police officer and the facts relied upon in
determining the disposition to the person alleged to have been aggrieved by the
officer's actions or to that person's survivor and to members of the citizens'
review board. Board members shall
maintain as confidential all personnel information to which they gain access as
a member of the Board. Each member of
the Board shall execute and adhere to a Confidentiality Agreement that is
satisfactory to the City. For purposes
of this subdivision, the 'disposition of disciplinary charges' includes
determinations that the charges are sustained, not sustained, unfounded,
exonerated, classified as an information file, or classified as any other disciplinary
disposition category subsequently adopted by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police
Department. In the event that the
citizens' review board hears an appeal of a police disciplinary case, the
disposition of the case, as defined in this subdivision, as well as the facts
and circumstances of the case, may be released by the city manager or the chief
of police, or their designees, to any person whose presence is necessary to the
appeals hearing as determined by the chief of police or his designee.</ins></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins cite="mailto:Author" datetime="2000-10-24T00:26">(9)</ins></span> <span class="msoIns"><ins cite="mailto:Author" datetime="2000-10-24T00:26">That portion
of a video or audio tape produced by a mobile video recorder (MVR) in a police
department vehicle which recorded an event resulting in a citizen complaint
against a police officer may be reviewed by the person alleged to have been
aggrieved by the officer's actions.</ins></span>"<o:p></o:p></div>
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Section 4. This
act applies only to the City of <st1:place w:st="on">Charlotte</st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Section 5. This
act is effective when it becomes law.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this
the 17th day of July, 1997.<o:p></o:p></div>
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s/ Dennis A. Wicker<o:p></o:p></div>
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President of the
Senate<o:p></o:p></div>
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s/ Harold J. Brubaker<o:p></o:p></div>
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Speaker of the House
of Representatives<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Here is a <b><u><a href="http://charmeck.org/city/charlotte/CityClerk/CouncilRelated/Documents/Agenda%20Attachments/2013/11_11_2013/Agenda_2013_11_11.pdf">link</a></u></b>
and the text of the CRB Agenda item for tomorrow night:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Committee Chair: Warren Cooksey <o:p></o:p></div>
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Resources: Ron Carlee, City Manager’s Office <o:p></o:p></div>
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Eric Campbell, City Manager’s Office <o:p></o:p></div>
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Bob Hagemann, City
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Chief Rodney Monroe,
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Willie Ratchford,
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Time: 45 minutes <o:p></o:p></div>
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On April 1, 2013, the City Council requested that the
Council-Manager Relations <o:p></o:p></div>
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Committee review the current Citizens Review Board
ordinance. As a part of that <o:p></o:p></div>
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review, a task force including members of the
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community <o:p></o:p></div>
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Relations Committee and the Citizens Review Board formed to
gather feedback <o:p></o:p></div>
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from the community regarding the Citizens Review Board
process. <o:p></o:p></div>
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On September 23, 2013, the Citizens Review Board Task
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findings and recommendations, and the Council-Manager
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requested the City Manager’s review. The ordinance amendment
is drawn from a <o:p></o:p></div>
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review of the task force report and the full record related
to their work. The City <o:p></o:p></div>
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Manager’ recommendation was developed in consultation with
the Attorney’s <o:p></o:p></div>
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Office, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, Community
Relations staff, and <o:p></o:p></div>
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others. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The Council-Manager Relations Committee voted unanimously
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and Mitchell) to approve the task force recommendations at
their September 23, <o:p></o:p></div>
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2013 meeting. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The recommended changes are based on the important concept
that the Citizens <o:p></o:p></div>
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Review Board appeal process is and should remain an
administrative review of <o:p></o:p></div>
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personnel decisions made by the Chief of Police; this is
consistent with a <o:p></o:p></div>
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recommendation of the task force that the Citizens Review
Board maintain its <o:p></o:p></div>
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appellate structure. Other proceedings, civil, or criminal
litigation as well as the <o:p></o:p></div>
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Civil Service Board remain available to the public and to
police officers. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In addition to the substantive proposed amendments, other
changes are set forth <o:p></o:p></div>
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in the proposed draft ordinance, which is intended to
enhance the procedural <o:p></o:p></div>
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operations of the Citizens Review Board consistent with task
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Bonus note: City Clerk Stephanie Kelly is now only one month behind publishing the <u><a href="http://charmeck.org/city/charlotte/CityClerk/CouncilRelated/Pages/Minutes%202007-2014.aspx">City Council Agendas</a></u>. This is a big improvement over the 4 month
lag which has plagued the site. However,
it’s still not acceptable. </span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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citynewswatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09166768367697949546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684274417834349897.post-58011805815901749752013-10-12T00:22:00.002-04:002013-10-12T00:22:46.302-04:00MALALA YOUSAFZAI, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Interview<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.6pt;">In a
controversial decision, youngest Nobel Peace Prize nominee Malala Yousafzai did
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<br />citynewswatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09166768367697949546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684274417834349897.post-21444164711488094722013-10-08T06:30:00.000-04:002013-10-14T00:08:04.258-04:00Inspiring Child Hero, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee: Malala<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Once you realize she has endured being shot in the head for simply riding a school bus, trying to get an education, and speaking of the rights of girls to be educated, the power of her words is even more beautiful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Malala put such fear in the hearts of the Pakistani Taliban that they hunted her down, boarded her school bus, and shot this beautiful child in the head in front of her classmates, leaving her to die.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">ABC’s Diane Sawyer</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> has done several interviews with Malala. One of them is <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">with the story </span><span style="background: white; color: #777777; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;">By<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="fn">TERI WHITCRAFT and MURIEL PEARSON</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> |<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="provider">ABC News</span> – <abbr style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #777777; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 11.199999809265137px;" title="2013-10-07T04:54:29Z">Mon, Oct 7, 2013 12:54 AM EDT<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></abbr> below:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">A year ago this week 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai was brutally attacked on her way home from school -- shot in the head at point-blank range by the Taliban.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">One year later, the shot heard round the world has given birth to a movement of change -- a movement to educate girls, and the little girl from Swat Valley in Pakistan has become an international symbol of courage and hope.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">"In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It's their normal life," Malala told Diane Sawyer in an exclusive interview for ABC News. "But in other part of the world, <span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>we are starving for education ... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.</i></span>"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Malala was 11 years old when the Taliban came to her hometown in Swat Valley in northwest Pakistan. Suddenly fear was everywhere. <span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>The town's public square was nicknamed "Slaughter Square" because of all the beheadings and corpses. Women were publicly flogged.</i></span> And Malala's own father was targeted for death because he spoke out against the Taliban and for educating girls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">"At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow," Malala told Sawyer. "The time was of fear, but some people can overcome fear and some people can fight fear."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>And while others cowered in fear, Malala -- named for a famous Afghan woman warrior -- was filled with courage</i></span>. When the Taliban issued an edict banning all girls from going to school, <span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>she spoke up when no one else would</i></span>. She blogged about the Taliban attacks on schools for the BBC, and even appeared in a New York Times documentary, saying defiantly: "They cannot stop me. I will get my education -- if it is in home, school, or anyplace."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Even though she knew there had been threats made against her, she says she never expected the Taliban to harm a young girl. But she did rehearse in her own mind what she would do if attacked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">"It was always my desire before the attack that if a man comes ... I would tell that man that education is very important," Malala told Sawyer. "I will tell that man that I even want education for your daughter."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">"And you think that would work against a gun?" Sawyer asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>"I thought that words and books and pens are more powerful than guns,"</i></span> Malala answered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">And on Oct. 9, as she and her friends were singing on the way home, playing the sides of her school bus like a drum, she never imagined that the young man who boarded the bus and asked "Who is Malala?" was an assassin sent by the Taliban to kill her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">"On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine," Malala said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Malala answered: "At that time, I was not worried about myself. I wanted to live my life as I want. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">She doesn't remember the man pointing his Colt .45 and firing three bullets at point blank range, but her best friend told her: "You said nothing and you were just for -- you were just holding my hand and you just squeezed my hand, like you were just forcing it. And you said nothing."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Bleeding heavily, unconscious, Malala was rushed to a local clinic, then to a hospital where a military surgeon saved her life by removing part of her skull as her brain began to swell. She was transported to a military hospital, and then days later airlifted to England. She calls it her "seven days of coma dreams."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">"At the time, I was -- thinking that am I dead or am I alive?" Malala said. "If I am dead, I shall be like -- in a graveyard. And then but I said, like, you are not dead. You can talk to yourself. How can you be dead? Then I said, 'You are alive.'… just hope. One day you will wake up."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Today, after numerous surgeries and intensive physiotherapy, Malala is attending school in Birmingham, England, and says she is "totally recovered." She says she loves music, drama and physics -- and remains extremely competitive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">"Still I want to be the number one," Malala said. "And -- I want to be the number one in every field."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">In the past few months Malala has been honored by human rights organizations around the world, yet she says she's a bit embarrassed by all the attention.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">"I'm feeling that I'm just getting older," she told Sawyer. "I'm 16 now. No one is accepting me as a child."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Still, Malala is eager to do magic tricks and card games with Sawyer, even showing off her special talent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">"I'm double-jointed because I can do this with my hands, see?" she exclaimed, bending her fingers back almost double. She asked Sawyer if she was double jointed too, and then admonished her: "Why don't you practice?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">"Yes, there's no place like home. And I believe it," she said. "If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home. And I do miss my home."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">"I think life is always dangerous," Malala said. "Some people get afraid of it. Some people don't go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move. ... <span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>We have seen the barbaric situation of the 21st century in Swat. So why should I be afraid now?"</i></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">"I think death didn't want to kill me. And God was with me," Malala said. "And the people prayed for me… And now I know that you must not be afraid of death. And you must move forward. You must go forward, because education and peace is very important. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<em><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">You can see Diane Sawyer's exclusive interview with Malala Yousafzai on ABC's "Good Morning America" at 7 a.m. ET, and on "World News with Diane Sawyer" at 6:30 p.m. ET on Monday, Oct. 7. Don't miss a special primetime hour on Malala, "Unbreakable," airing on "20/20," Friday at 10 p.m. ET.</span></em><span style="color: #003964; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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fitness instruction, free admission and Romare Bearden-focused tours at the
Mint Museum Uptown (shown as “Bechtler/Knight/Mint/Duke Center” on the map,
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two blocks south of the new park) at special times, puppet shows and other
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of Romare Bearden, artist born in Charlotte, who studied abroad and lived much
of his life in Harlem, NY. His work is
widely celebrated and he is known in our city as Charlotte’s native son.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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