The mayor and the city council chairman say they are making progress but still haven't come to an agreement on how to choose board members for a Tampa citizens review board.

Meanwhile, citizens say they're not backing down and they're taking their case to the streets.

Driving through downtown Tampa Friday night people came upon a rather unusual sight: Donna Davis dressed up like the tooth fairy and protesters waving signs of a toothless Mayor Buckhorn.

Their point?

They say they want a citizens review board with some teeth.

"The mayor has come in and said it will be this way,” said Davis. “'It will be my appointees,' taking power out of the hands of the people and that's not good."

For weeks, the mayor, city council members and residents have been at odds about how many people should be on a citizens review board designed to oversee Tampa police and who should appoint them.

Mayor Buckhorn and Council Chairman Frank Reddick met at the mayor's office to talk it out.

"You know we had open dialogue, put everything on the table, but we just couldn't reach that compromise on where we should go," Reddick said.

Right now, it's a numbers game. Buckhorn has offered to allow the council to pick three board members out of 11; he would pick the remaining 8.

Reddick has been pushing for the city council to appoint seven board members with each council person getting a pick.

“I think ultimately both of us want this to succeed, we both want it to be done, we're both committed to doing it with the least amount of drama," Buckhorn said.

Meanwhile, Davis and her group say they'll be watching.

"We’re asking for democratic government which is participatory and representative," Davis said.

Mayor Buckhorn and councilman Reddick say they'll be talking again early next week.

They're hoping to have something to present to the council at its meeting on Thursday.

Reddick has also proposed having a larger citizens review board made up of more people so every council member could have an appointee, but Buckhorn says he's just not comfortable with that.

He says he feels like larger boards can become unruly and that 11 is a good number.