Board approves agenda and minutes, elects Abby as vice president; discusses meeting time

The Board of Zoning Appeals approved its agenda and the minutes from the Jan. 26 meeting, then moved to new business, where members nominated and elected a vice president for the calendar year.

At about 6:00 p.m. the chair asked for a motion to approve the agenda "as presented;" a motion and second were made and the chair called for ayes, after which the chair stated the motion carried. The board followed the same procedure to approve the Jan. 26 minutes.

The chair then opened nominations for vice president. "Are there any nominations?" the chair asked; a member nominated Abby, and another member seconded the nomination. The chair closed nominations and asked for a vote: the board voted in favor and the chair congratulated Abby. Carla noted that "Mister Eber had said that he was due to work [and] wasn't able to make it this evening and said that ... he'd rather not," but that he would be "accepting of whomever you choose."

Later in new business Carla raised the possibility of moving the board's meeting time up by no more than an hour to avoid late evening runs for some boards; members expressed concern about too-early starts and potential conflicts with work schedules and did not adopt a new start time at the meeting.

A motion to adjourn at 6:00 p.m. was made, seconded and carried.