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Article VI of the Constitution by sub
stituting the words "August 15 and
October 15” for the words "November
1 and January 15.”
Amend the second line of Section 8,
Article VI of the Conssitution by sub
stituting the word "November” for the
word "February.”
Amend line 3 of Section 4, Article X
of the By-Laws by substituting the
words "August 15” for "November
20.”
Amend line 4 of Section , Article X
of the By-Laws by substituting the
words "July 1” for "October 1.”
Since this Resolution concerned a
constitutional amendment a standing
vote was necessary. The result of the
vote was Yes 37, No 0 and the resolu
tion was adopted.
The following resolution was also
submitted with the same recommenda
tion:
Whereas: There is some confusion in
the Constitution which requires clari-
fication,
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED
That the Constitution be amended by:
1. Deleting in lines one and two of
Section 5, Article VI the following sen
tence: "A member of the Board of Di
rectors shall be a member of the Gen
eral Council,: and
2. Deleting in line 3 of the same Seç-
3. Deleting in line 4, Section 4, Ar
ticle VII the word "promotion.”
The result of a standing vote was
yes, 37, No 0 and the resolution was
adopted.
Mr. DeFrance introduced Mr. Jerry
Sayler, Director of the Public Em
ployees Retirement System who deliv
ered an interesting discussion of the
Retirement System and the plans for
putting it into effect. Many pertinent
questions were asked and ably answered.
Mr. Sayler introduced Mrs. Catherine
Carson Barsch, Assistant Attorney
General.
The meeting recessed for 10 minutes
after which Mr. Chidsey continued his
report.
Amendments were proposed to the
Constitution and By-Laws of the Ore
gon State Employees Association pro
viding that employees of cities, counties
or other political subdivisions might be
come members of the Association.
Mr. Cooper was opposed to admitting
the city and county employees because
their problems are foreign to ours and
the amount of dues they would contrib
ute would not compensate for the
troubles we would get. He further
stated that the staff and officers are
already over worked and he could see
no reason for taking on more work.