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October 23, 2012 <br />At a Called Meeting of the City Council on Tuesday, October 23, 2012, there <br />were present: <br />Mayor Kenneth I. Wright, Vice Mayor Charles B. Whitehurst, Sr., William E. Moody, Jr., <br />*Marlene W. Randall, Stephen E. Heretick, Paige D. Cherry, Dr. Curtis E. Edmonds, Sr., <br />Deputy City Manager J. Brannon Godfrey, City Attorney G. Timothy Oksman. <br />12 - 421 -The following call for the meeting was read: <br />"Please attend a Called Meeting of the City Council to be held in the 6t" Floor <br />Conference Room, 801 Crawford Street, 5:00 p.m., Tuesday, October 23, 2012 for the <br />purpose of a Public Work Session. <br />In addition, you may consider a motion to go into a Closed Meeting. <br />By order of the Mayor." <br />12 - 422 -The following items were discussed in Public Work Session: <br />1. Legislative Proposals -Sherri Neil, Senior Management Analyst <br />2. Tax Exemption Legislation -Tim Oksman, City Attorney <br />3. Hot Topics <br />- Judy Duffy, Project Manager - <br />• Street Sweeping Update <br />- Kenneth Chandler, City Manager - <br />• Family and Medical Leave Act (former Fire Chief Don Horton) <br />12 - 423 -Motion by Ms. Randall, and seconded by Mr. Whitehurst, to go into Closed <br />Meeting pursuant to provisions of Section 2.2-3711(A)(1) of the Code of Virginia, to <br />discuss appointments by City Council and the performance of individual city employees. <br />The subject matter of the meeting is to discuss the qualifications of candidates for <br />appointment to boards and commissions, and also personnel matters. <br />The purpose of the meeting is to permit confidential discussion of candidates, plus <br />personnel matters. <br />The motion was adopted by the following vote: <br />Ayes: Cherry, Edmonds, Heretick, Randall, Whitehurst, Wright <br />Nays: Moody <br />Motion by Mr. Edmonds, and seconded by Mr. Whitehurst, pursuant to Section <br />2.2-3712(D) of the Code of Virginia, certifying that to the best of the Council Members' <br />knowledge during the immediately preceding Closed Meeting of the City Council: <br />1. Only public business matters lawfully exempted from open meeting <br />requirements by the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, and <br />2. Only such public business matters as were identified in the motion, by which <br />the Closed Meeting was convened, were heard, discussed or considered in <br />the meeting by the City Council. <br />The motion was adopted by the following vote: <br />Ayes: Cherry, Edmonds, Heretick, Moody, Randall, Whitehurst, Wright <br />Nays: None <br />