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About The Oregon state employee. (Salem, Oregon.) 1944-195? | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1944)
22 Minutes of the meeting of the Gen eral Council, held June 20, 1943, were read and approved. General Council Committees were announced and Committees directed to consider resolutions referred to them and make recommendations or else con solidate and present alternate resolu tions. Mr. DeFrance read the report of the Rules Committee which was adopted as read. The Secretary briefly reviewed reso lutions which had been presented and which were referred to the various committees. The Secretary-Treasurer reported: Membership: June 20, 1943, 11 Chapters, 609 Members; February 12, 1944, 16 Chapters, 988 Members (60% Increase). General Fund: Receipts, $2,919.23; Disbursements, $722.00; B a l a n c e , $2,197.23. Revolving F u n d : R e c e i p t s , $1,129.11; Disbursements, $688.31; Cash on Hand, $440.60. Reserve Fund: No Reserve Fund had been set up. Mr. Ford, Chairman of the Audit Committee, read the following report: "The Committee examined the books and found everything in order.” The Council adopted the financial reports and the Audit Committee Report. The Secretary reported: (1) That OSBURN HOTEL and Aparimenls Home Owned and Operated Eugene, Oregon he had prepared Bulletin No. 1 but had been unable to put out other issues dues to the lack of a standing com mittee for this purpose; (2) That he had attended two hearings held by the Interim Committee and had prepared and presented an affirmative brief for Civil Service. Miss Rickey also attend ed and took notes. The brief and notes had been mimeographed for distribu tion; (3) T hat other educational ma terial on Civil Service and Retirement Plans had been mimeographed and dis tributed. Work along this line was also limited by lack of a standing com mittee; (4) T hat letters, as ordered by the last General Council, had been sent to members of the Legislature who had voted in favor of Civil Service, to members of the Interim Committee and to the League of Women Voters; (3) That resolutions had been prepared, as ordered by the 1943 General Council, conferring honorary membership on the members of the State Board of Con trol and the State Highway Commis sion. The President reviewed the growth of the Association. He said the duty of the delegates to this Council is to decide what our future course and poli cy is to be. The officers cannot deter mine the policy of the organization as that is the function of this Council. The officers can only carry out the program or policies adopted by the As sembly. We cannot continue along the lines we have been following and ac complish our aims: (1) We have no well defined method of contacting, as an Association, other state departments and the Legislature. We definitely need a representative who can talk for the organization. (2) We need more mem bers. Our strength depends upon our membership. (3) Improved manage-
