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METROPOLITAN AREA PLANNING COMMISION
APRIL 13, 1993
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City Council Chambers 314 W. Washington Avenue Jonesboro, Arkansas
The minutes of the 03-09-93 and 2-23-93 meetings were approved as prepared.
Jon Coleman stated that due to the term expiration of Guy Patteson, who held the position of secretary, it was necessary to elect a new secretary and opened the floor for nominations.
Mr. Little made a motion to nominate Jim Damron for secretary. Mr. McCracken seconded the motion. There were no other nominations. All members present voting aye. MOTION CARRIED.
Mr. Coleman asked for a report from the streamlining committee that was appointed at the last meeting to evaluate procedural matters.
Mr. McCracken stated there were several areas of discussion, but basically five main topics. On three of these five items it was decided that it was not appropriate to make any changes. One of these items was to split duties of the Commission into two or more separate groups depending on the type of project or some other manner. The committee decided it was best to continue to function as a full organization and have this body act on things collectively. Delegation of additional items to staff for administrative approval was also discussed and no change was felt necessary. It was noted that in 1992 the Council did approve an ordinance allowing for administrative approval of some items. The committee also discussed the possibility of spitting the agenda to where the Commission would meet more frequently than once each month. Some of the problems that arose with this was how do you split an agenda, do you stagger the filing dates, does when you file determine which agenda you are on. It was the decision of the committee to not take any action formal action to establish more frequent meetings.
The committee further discussed that fact that many items are coming to the Commission that are deficient, in some cased severe deficiencies in the amount of information and docu...
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