Word: quorums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final vote on the budget, only 40 of the council's 88 members remained in the room. He a quorum count been officially requested, the council's spring grant decisions would have been invalidated
There is no certainty that it can pass, however, and so the commission may after all expire on schedule by month's end. If so, it will die mute. Since a quorum of four is needed to transact any business, the three commissioners remaining after last week's firings cannot even convene an official meeting. Nor, among other things, can they even formally issue a report, drafted in October, that complains that the Administration's budget and staff cuts have hamstrung the enforcement of equal rights laws...
Reagan's action leaves the panel without its required quorum of four, meaning it cannot even meet until at least one more member is confirmed by the Senate...
...true the inaugural year of legitimate student government wasn't scintillating. The marathon session last week where the council's picayune by-laws received approval was not a marked departure in size or substance from the nearly two dozen previous gatherings. Meetings rarely drew a crowd far above a quorum or attracted more than a handful of observers...
...although more than 90 percent of the students voting favored the change, the total number of ballots cast was not enough for a quorum. "We needed near 1500 votes, and we missed by 72," said Michelle C. Ott, vice chairman of the present student government...