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Glazer later chastised representatives who were absent from the meeting. By the end of the meeting, the UC was barely at quorum and nearly unable to pass reform legislation which has been in the works for the entire semester. Half of the UC must be in attendance to vote on any legislation...
Only 25 council members were present for the meeting—just exceeding the necessary 22 or 50 percent of current members to reach quorum according to the council’s constitution. The meeting was most likely the final one for last year’s council as the new council will be elected over the next two weeks...
...Lisa Naito and chair Diane Linn, along with a trusted staff member from each office--began discussing marriage. Whenever the commissioners came to meetings on the issue, they were careful to show up alone or in pairs to avoid triggering a state public-meetings law that applies when a quorum of elected officials (in this case, three of five) gather to discuss government affairs. To be sure, the commissioners may routinely follow the same practice, but the deliberate dodging of the public-meetings law on such a politically explosive decision--one that was ultimately made without a single public hearing...
...article also failed to note that Mahan counted a different number of council members in the room each time quorum was called, despite the fact that no one was entering or leaving the room. Given the fact that my own count led me to believe that there were not enough representatives in the room to reach quorum, my decision to make a quorum call three times in quick succession was at the very least justified...
...point during the meeting, Lurie and council member Joseph R. Oliveri ’05 left the room and refused to be counted for quorum in an apparent protest...