A City of Columbia meeting was adjourned on short notice after officials determined they did not have a quorum, and an application scheduled for a vote was postponed until next month, a staff member said.

The staff member told attendees that the meeting would pause for roughly five minutes while officials awaited late arrivals and that “we may have to make a call at 04:05 today.” When enough commissioners did not appear, the same speaker said the meeting would be rescheduled. “We are going to reschedule our month's activities for next month. I think we even had a deferral on the application anyway that we were gonna vote on today,” the staff member said.

The staff member closed the meeting by declining to call a formal roll-call vote, saying, “without objection, I'll call for a vote to actually, I don't even need really even need to do that, so we'll just simply this is adjourned. We we are adjourned.” The transcript does not show a recorded roll-call or roll-call tally for the adjournment.

Why it matters: the postponement delays any decision tied to the deferred application and pushes related public discussion and votes to a future meeting. The transcript does not specify the application’s name, agenda item number or the new meeting date.

According to the transcript, staff attempted a short wait for late commissioners before deciding there was not a quorum and adjourned by consensus. No formal motions, seconders or roll-call votes are recorded in the provided transcript excerpt.