Thread by @socialistdogmom

arriving a little late & a little wet to the second meeting this week of the police civilian review board. they’ve got a working draft of their bylawbYE9

oh this is VERY boring.
i’m already nostalgic for the meeting i just came from.

an attorney from legal aid justice center is guiding them through shaping this section. there have been a lot of questions in the past about how independent they can really be of the same lawyer represents them & the poliUL6T

i’d like to make a motion to add a section to the bylaws prohibiting the consumption of baby carrots at meetings. the crunching is k i l l i n g me 🥕🥕❌

a lot of back and forth on the issue of the city attorney. having their own outside counsel would be prohibitively expensive. ms katrina would prefer to have nothing to do with the city atty but don points out that if THEY as a board get sued, that office represents them.

oh god we just turned onto page 4 of 9 in this line by line group revision of these draft bylaws. are they planning on staying here until they get all the way through...?

they’ve been adamant from the outset that they won’t be electing officers. they have monthly rotating chair & secretary roles... but ten minutes into this discussion about reimbursements, josh suggests they might need a treasurer.

nobody asked me, but you can’t write bylaws for the body you HAVE NOW. you can’t leave blanks because you know the people you’re working with and they would never XYZ or they would always remember to XYZ. you don’t know who’s gonna be at the table down the road. be specific.

apparently they said at the beginning of the meeting that they had a hard end time of 9pm. we just moved to page 6 of 9. josh wants to power through it, which doesn’t seem to be a popular opinion.