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Urbana Human Rights Commission delays vote on changing membership size after quorum clarification
Summary
Commissioners clarified that quorum is based on seated members and agreed to revisit a proposal to reduce the commissionsize at a future meeting when all members, including Peter Resnick, can participate.
At its Aug. 19 meeting, the City of Urbana Human Rights Commission discussed whether to request a change to its membership size but tabled the matter until a future meeting after staff clarified how quorum is calculated under the city code.
The clarification matters because the city code bases quorum on the number of members currently seated, not the maximum number of authorized positions. Carla (staff member) told the commission she met with the city clerk, legal staff and county representatives and reported: "it turns out that we are okay. That in our or in the, code city code, it says, seated versus member." She…
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