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Good afternoon, everyone.

The organizational development standing committee of the Richmond City Council will now come to order.

Mr.

Clerk, if you will provide us with the chamber emergency evacuation announcement followed by the agenda announcements.

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And Madam Chair, all members of the committee are in attendance this afternoon except members Tramell, Abu Baker, and Lynch, and you do have quorum.

Thank you.

Let's proceed with the agenda items, please.

Madam Chair, the minutes to be approved are from the Monday, October 5th, 2026 Organizational Development Standing Committee meeting.

And if there are no corrections or amendments, then the minutes will be approved as presented.

Those minutes have been approved.

Thank you.

At this time, we'll have a uh presentation by uh CRB manager Joseph Lowry.

Welcome,

Mr.

Lowry.

Thank

you for having me.

I'm sorry, ma'am.

No, I

we're good to go.

Oh, okay.

Well, thanks for having us.

But before we begin, I want to take a moment to reflect what this report uh represents for the Richmond Civilian Review Board.

Um, as many of you know, establishing the CRB uh took uh a long time.

It was many years of community advocacy, um planning, collaboration.

And before I got here, there was still a lot of work to be done for the CRB and in order for us to fulfill our mission.

So reaching that point took took a lot of patience, uh persistence, and a commitment of many people.

This report represents more than a summary of our first year.

It also documents the work that was done to build that foundation for civilian oversight in the city here.

And um, it also talks about what we did as far as training, um, establishing the policies and procedures and making sure that our work was accessible to the public.

Now we also realized that this is just the beginning.

So our first year provided a valuable experience for us.

Um helped us identify some areas in which we can approve improve, as well as it raised some important questions to ensure that the board had the information and the resources to fulfill our responsibilities effectively.

So at this point, I want to thank the members of the CRB for their time and commitment.

We have a few members here from the uh from the board.

I want to thank City Council and the mayor's office for their support, as well as community members and advocates who uh push this initiative to make us uh you know uh where we are today.

Uh

today, so I would like to invite our board chair Angela Fontaine up, and she will walk us through the report and highlight some of the things that we've accomplished during that first year and discuss some of the challenges and priorities that will shape our work moving forward.

Angela,

thank you for

having me.

Uh again, my name is Angela Fontaine.

I am the chair of the civilian review board.

Um, for those of you who were here prior to, I was also the chair of the task force of establishing the civilian review board.

Um, let me get oriented with my clicker.

Okay,

great.

And welcome, thank you.

Thank

you so much.

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There

we go.

Over.