Amending Chapter 2 Commission on Status of Women of the Municipal

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NOTED March 27,1978 This letter serves as cover letter for the bill. The Common Council City of South Bend County -City Building South Bend, Indiana 46601. .Attention: Roger 0. Parent, President Dear Roger, The South Bend Commission on the Status of Women would like to request a review of Ordinance = 5690 -74, passed June 24, 1.974, to be amended in order to facilitate the work of the Commission. Section I, subsection (e) reads: "All members of the Commission shall serve without compensation and any ten members shall constitute a quorum ". In review, this quorum requirement seems to be presenting an unnecessary hardship. For a number of months over the past couple of years the Commission has operated with less than the full complement of members, one or two vacancies being not uncommon. For this and other reasons, we request the. following change to bring our quorum requirements more in line with other city commissions: Section I, subsection (e) be amended to read "All members of the Commission shall serve without compensation and a majority of the members shall constitute a quorum". Section I, subsection (g) reads: "It shall take the concurrance of a majority of the Commission membership to take offical action ". For the same reason as cited above, we request that this subsection -be amended to read: "It shall take the concurrence of a majority of the Commission members present to take official action ". In addition we would like to add subsection (h) to Section I to read as follows: "No individual shall be appointed for more than three consecutive terms." Sincerely ,yours, Dantina C. Bella, President South Bend Commission on the Status of Women