Washington City Council held the first in person voting meeting in several months and the most anticipated item on the agenda was saved for the end of the meeting. Council was scheduled to approve or reject an ordinance to form a police review board. That board would be a mechanism to allow citizens to review allegations of police misconduct. When the motion was raised for a vote, Councilman Ken Westcott read from a prepared statement requesting that the motion be tabled. He pointed to possible litigation circumstances that may be brought on by the city’s Fraternal Order of Police chapter. Mayor Scott Putnam pointed to a case brought by the police union in Morgantown, WV over a similar ordinance. Putnam and council want to make sure the police union in Washington has its concerns addressed. Dr. Andrew Goudy, President of the Washington, PA branch of the NAACP was shocked at the motion. He indicated that he was not given any advance notice that tabling the measure was even an option. He stayed after the meeting to talk with Putnam to see exactly what brought on the tabling and where the process will go from here.