Bainbridge Island city council members hope the third time will be the charm for creating a citizens committee to oversee the city’s police department.

Council members rejected a proposal at their meeting Tuesday — the second in little more than a month — that would have created a five-member citizens advisory board appointed by the city manager that would offer advice directly to Police Chief Matthew Hamner.

An earlier proposal centered on a seven-member citizen police advisory board that would review complaints about the conduct of police officers as well as general complaints about the police department.

Some said that approach, however, was too limited and needed reworking.

The newest proposal also failed to find favor with the council.

On Tuesday night, the council voted unanimously to appoint three council members — one from each ward — to join the police chief and city manager in writing a job description for the advisory committee.

Concerns about the latest proposal centered on the idea that the citizens advisory committee would disband after a year if it proved unneeded, and whether it would work independent from the police department.

The council appointed councilmen Roger Townsend, Val Tollefson and David Ward to help come up with a job description for the citizens board that the council could support.