By JIM BUTLER

Lizzie Felter prefers John Callis to Trayce Snow as her City Council district appointment to the Greater Alexandria Economic Development Authority. End of story, whether all the story or not.

Exercising her privilege Tuesday to select a GAEDA member, she nominated Callis and the City Council agreed, 4-2 (Cynthia Perry, Gary Johnson) with Reddex Washington abstaining.

Felter’s desire for a change, and Lee Rubin’s respective to his at-large appointment, surfaced Monday.

Rubin’s intent to nominate a successor to Candice Cheney was pulled from the council agenda. At meeting’s end he opted to return it.

That required unanimous accord by the panel. Perry’s “no” on roll call ended the matter until such time it is back on a posted notice.

Snow, GAEDA chair, told the council she was not aware of any reason or justification for being replaced after two years of a four-year term, noting she is the third of the authority’s seven members to be removed since the council amended the process last February.

That amending essentially left the duration of an appointment (by definition four years) at the will of respective council members, requiring no cause of action for replacement.

Felter took the opportunity to have a person of her own choosing, and thanked Snow for her service.

Callis, perhaps most familiar to many for his continuing venture to restore the Owl Grocery building on Chester Street and operate a restaurant there, has a varied business background here and elsewhere.

Most-recent minutes published on GAEDA’s website don’t reflect acrimony, though an executive session in January causes some pause.

Near the end of the January 17 meeting, vice chair Dr. Curtis Lewis moved to go into executive session, with a second by Ronald Morgan.

The stipulated reason: “to discuss character, professional competence, or physical or mental health of a person.”

Minutes do not reflect whether the unnamed person was advised of intentions to have such a discussion or whether the person was afforded the option of attending and/or of a public discussion.

After the closed portion, the board also agreed to hold an Executive Committee meeting, “as stated in the Succession Plan,” on January 19.

Those minutes were not immediately searchable. Public agencies with active web sites are required by state law to cache minutes on them.