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Hearing
halted by
Critzer
walk-out
By JANE BANGLEY
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
A public hearing Sept. 11 on a proposed ordinance banning helicopter landings within the town of Washington was abruptly halted when Councilman Wallace Critzer walked out of the meeting, leaving the council without a quorum.
Critzer said he “just remembered something I have to do” and left the court room hearing shortly after Mayor Peter Kramer recited the ordinance and just before the mayor prepared to open the meeting to public dicussion.
Without a quorum present — a majority of the council’s seven members — business cannot be conducted legally.
Three of the seven council members — including the author of the ordinance and the councilwoman who introduced it — were absent when the meeting was called to order to discuss the proposed ordi
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