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Review and Approval of the Update to the Bylaws of the Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC)
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BRIEF OVERVIEW
The Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) Bylaws were adopted on July 15, 2014, and amended on October 20, 2015. The CAC reviewed the draft update of the CAC Bylaws during their October 25, 2023, regular meeting and raised the following questions:
1. Item C1 - Membership: "CAC shall be comprised of 11 appointed citizens..."; should this read "CAC shall be comprised of up to 11 appointed citizens..."? Should minimum membership be specified?
2. Item D4 - Officers: "Chair shall preside at all meetings..."; should a procedural statement be added when conducting joint meetings to accommodate a single Chair of one of the committees presiding over a joint meeting for efficiency? This is what is occurring currently and seems to be working well.
3. Item F - Amendments: "Recommended changes in the Bylaws require a majority of the current CAC members..."; if the Committee serves at the pleasure of the MPO Board, are Bylaws approved by the Committee or the MPO Board or both?
The Hernando County Attorney's Office has provided the following:
1. According to the Hernando County Attorney, 11 is neither a minimum or a maximum, it is the mandated size of the CAC. No changes required.
2. Procedural statement D4 was added: "When conducting joint meetings with other committees, a Chair of one of the committees shall preside over the meeting for efficiency. The committees may alternate the presiding Chair".
3. Verbiage was updated to: "The CAC recommended changes must be presented to the MPO Board for final review and approval".
For reference, the major updates to the CAC Bylaws presented during the October 25, 2023, meeting included the following:
1. included statutory citations (Section 339.175, FS),
2. added the ability to cancel meetings in the Bylaws,
3. clarified the practice of conducting joint meetings with the Bicycle/Pedestrian Advisory Committee (B...
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