A bill for an ordinance clarifying and amending the authority of the Office of the Independent Monitor. An ordinance clarifying and amending the authority of the Office of the Independent Monitor and expanding the appointment process for the Citizen Oversight Board to include City Council appointments. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 1-30-19.
No items have been called out and under pending. No items have been called out. All right. Looks like we got them all. Madam Secretary, if you could please put the first item on our screens. And, Councilwoman, can you go ahead with your comment? Thank you, Mr. President. This is the bill to update and clarify the powers of the Independent Monitor and the Citizen Oversight Board that works with the Independent Monitor on independent oversight of police and sheriff. We're going to hold our substantive comments until next week on this bill. But I wanted to, for transparency to the community and my colleagues, let them know that an amendment will be coming next week on a very tiny technical issue, which is we did not get this staggering quite right for the members of the Citizen Oversight Board. And so you'll see an amendment. We wanted to just give you time to absorb it, so we'll send it to you this week. But it will basically just ensure that we have a chunk of members kind of expiring in an irregular cadence rather than having a big chunk at once and then none for a year. So we didn't get that quite right. And I'm sorry we didn't catch it sooner, but transparency just wanted folks to know if anyone who's listening or watching needs to see the amendment. We will have it available through my office. 720337 7712 or contact the city council main office and we can have them get it to folks as well. So we'll talk with you more about the bill next week. Thank you.