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Julv 14. 2010 At a Called Meeting of the City Council on Wednesday, July 14, 2010, there were present: Vice Mayor Charles B. Whitehurst Sr., William E. Moody, Jr., *Marlene W. Randall, Stephen E. Heretick, Elizabeth M. Psimas, *Paige O. Cherry. 10 - 333 - The following call for the meeting was read: "Please attend a Called Meeting of the City Council to be held in the 6th Floor Conference Room, 801 Crawford Street, 5:00 p. m., Wednesday, July 14, 2010, for the purpose of a Special Called Meeting and possible appointment to Mayor and City Council. In addition, you may consider a motion to go into a Closed Meeting. By order of the Mayor." 1 0 - 334 - Motion by Mr. Moody, and seconded by Mr. Heretick, to go into Closed Meeting pursuant to provisions of Section 2.2-3711 (A)(1) of the Code of Virginia, to discuss an appointment or appointments by City Council. The subject matter of the meeting is to discuss the qualifications of candidates for appointment to the position of Mayor of the City of Portsmouth, and also possibly to City Council. The purpose of the meeting is to permit confidential discussion of candidates. The motion was adopted by the following vote: Ayes: Cherry, Heretick, Moody, Psimas, Randall, Whitehurst Nays: None Motion by Mr. Moody, and seconded by Mr. Heretick, pursuant to Section 2.2- 3712(0) of the Code of Virginia, certifying that to the best of the Council Member's knowledge during the immediately preceding Closed Meeting of the City Council: 1. Only public business matters lawfully exempted from open meeting requirements by the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, and 2. Only such public business matters as were identified in the motion by which the Closed Meeting was convened, were heard, discussed or considered in the meeting by the City Council. The motion was adopted by the following vote: Ayes: Cherry, Heretick, Moody, Psimas, Randall, Whitehurst Nays: None The following statement was read by Vice Mayor Whitehurst: "The Portsmouth City Council has met to consider the difficult choices facing us to select the next Mayor of Portsmouth. Our deliberations have been productive, cordial, and collaborative, reflecting our collective duty to our community. In order to permit us to undertake the necessary due diligence to complete this process, we will adjourn our deliberations until Monday, July 26, 2010 at 5:00 p.m. We anticipate reaching a final decision on that date, and electing the next Mayor of the City of Portsmouth in our public session at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, July 27, 2010. This is an unanimous decision by the Portsmouth City Council. The Portsmouth City Council will have no further public comment on this decision until July 27, 2010."