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Community Action CEO asks Legislature to remove 5-year statutory board term limit for local control
Summary
Tom Donahue, CEO of Brock Community Action, asked the House Government Operations & Military Affairs Committee to amend a statutory provision that limits consecutive service on Community Action agency boards to five years, saying the rule prevents retention of experienced volunteer board members.
Tom Donahue, chief executive officer of Brock Community Action, told the House Government Operations & Military Affairs Committee he and other community action agency leaders are asking the Legislature to remove a statutory sentence that limits consecutive service on agency boards to no more than five years.
"What we're trying to do is put it back into local control," Donahue said, asking that the statutory limit be struck so individual…
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