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Lynn City Council on Aging committee to rewrite bylaws, seeks clearer finance reporting and quorum rules
Summary
Members of a Lynn City Council on Aging bylaws committee met to begin drafting revisions to the council's bylaws, focusing on aligning the bylaws with the city ordinance and charter, clarifying attendance and removal procedures, and creating a clearer financial-reporting process.
Members of a Lynn City Council on Aging bylaws committee met to begin drafting revisions to the council's bylaws, focusing on aligning the bylaws with the city ordinance and charter, clarifying attendance and removal procedures, and creating a clearer financial-reporting process.
The committee decided to work from the active bylaws (those listing 8 Silsbee Street) and to remove any provisions that conflict with the city ordinance, after legal review. "It does mirror the ordinance that creates the council on aging, but the council on aging ordinance would trump, would trump the bylaws," Jim said, recommending that a sentence requiring 51% of members be over age 60 be removed because the ordinance does not contain that restriction.
Committee members said the bylaws should explicitly address…
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