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Now all of this was made public later, but if
the thrust of Judge Sherbow's amendment is that all actions
of the Board, which is to be definitive, has to be taken
in public, and no action could be taken unless there is a
public meeting, all three of the inembers sitting there,
then I submit that you in effect .are hamstringing the
Board in doing many of the acts that it must do on a day
to day businesslike basis. We all know that in business
and finance, that people are polled in the telephone.
Their consent is received in this manner. The action is
taken; later it is ratified. It seems to me as commenda-
tory as this suggestion is that the preferable way to
handle it is in the statute or is in the schedule and
not to require in each instance that there be a public
meeting of the Board before definitive action can be taken,
so I think we in effect are hamstringing the efficiency
of the Board with this amendment, and I think it is wrong
and I will vote against it.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Chabot.
DELEGATE CHABOT: Mr. Chairman, I believe that
in this convention the Judiciary Committee on a number of