Opinion ID: 169583
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: The Citizens Advisory Board

Text: On January 21, 2003, Telluride adopted a resolution creating the Citizens Advisory Board (CAB). Id. at 321. CAB's function was to facilitate communication between Telluride and its citizens and to raise awareness about health and safety issues affecting the community. Id. at 322. CAB was composed of town-appointed community volunteers and did not have policy, legislative, disciplinary, or supervisory power over Telluride's decisions. Id. at 323-24. Conversely, although Telluride drafted and adopted CAB's mission statement, which included objectives such as making recommendations to the Town concerning marshal policies, Telluride did not offer CAB guidance on how to conduct its operations. For example, the town mayor when the CAB was created testified that CAB lacked operating procedures and that Telluride never instructed CAB about how to conduct its operations. Id. at 246, 247. The town mayor described CAB's authority in the negative: [t]his was not a legislative or public policy board, had no authority. And . . . it is not a police commission that investigates whether Officer X should or should not have shot so-and-so as he left his apartment carrying an AR 16. Id. at 248. Darr's counsel asked the former mayor whether it [was] part of the discussion [when creating the CAB] that the CAB would be involved in any disciplinary actions of police officers[.] He replied: [i]t certainly would not be. Id.