In a 6-2 vote, the Council asks City Manager Woodrow Wilson Gaitor to begin creating a starkly different review team than initially proposed. The newly proposed board would have extremely limited powers: “it would add three members of the public to a review board that already exists within the police department and would limit the board’s role to advising the chief on disciplinary matters.”²⁸  The HRC openly criticizes the council members’ decision, while Police Chief George W. Sicaras and other HPD officers express frustration with and resentment for the creation of any review panel that challenges their internal decision making. Three members of the HRC are named to sit on the prospective panel. As significant roadblocks continue to stand in the way of their work, the review board finally hears its first case in September. The police union, motivated by a fear of accountability and a distrust in the HRC’s priorities, declare they will go to court to block the Civilian Review Board from holding meetings.²⁹  Though unsuccessful, the union’s attempts at halting the Civilian Review Board speak to their unwillingness to allow any type of outside accountability to evaluate the inner workings of police behavior.