New Davidson Board meeting schedule starts in August.

Starting at 7pm rather than the normal 6pm ensures the Davidson Board will be meeting late into the evening on Tuesday.  The late start for the Board Meeting is most likely due to the National Night Out which is scheduled on the same evening and Commissioners need to attend both.

Long-time watchers of Davidson Town Hall may be thrown off by the "1st Tuesday" meeting time.  This is a part of the new meeting schedule passed by the Board back in May as part of the May 8th its consent agenda.

From that meeting agenda item it says:

• Starting in August, we will transition to the following monthly schedule:
o Meet on the first Tuesday of the month at 6:00 p.m. for a work session with an agenda
o Meet on the second Tuesday of the month at 6:00 p.m. for a work session with an agenda 
o Meet on the fourth Tuesday of the month at 6:00 p.m. for a regular meeting with an agenda 
• Coffee chats: We will cancel the May 21 coffee chat. The board of commissioners will consider hosting coffee chats at Davidson Town Hall quarterly starting in September (two at 9:00 a.m.  and one at 6:00 p.m.). We will use Open Town Hall to seek citizen input.

For citizens, it appears the biggest impact to this change surrounds when public comments will occur.

Public comment on issues will be on the 4th Tuesday meeting which is the "Regular" meeting.  What this means in practical terms is that if citizens want to make a public comment on an issue, they have to go to the 4th Tuesday meeting to speak on things that may be voted on that night or the next two Work Session meetings since there will now be 3 meetings per month with potential for votes rather than just 2.