Tuesday, May 1, 2012

CCTB Coverage.

As I noted yesterday, the city council votes to enter into a contract with the Carbondale Convention and Tourism Bureau for this year's funding of the Bureau.  Here's an article from the DE on the subject and the Carbondale Times ran this.  Meanwhile, this is the most recent article run on the topic by the Southern Illinoisan.  The Southern's coverage is much more favorable toward the board and the CCTB in general than were the articles in the DE and CT.

From the Southern, this is the first comment I have read from anyone on the CCTB board regarding the expansion of the number of members on the board:

Moore and CCTB Board of Directors President Trace Brown said they added to the board because at least 15 seats had to be filled by the end of March, according to CCTB’s bylaws. The move was not made to stack the board against Fritzler’s appointments, they said.
“I don’t think we were doing anything to go in the backdoor on city council members,” Brown said.

 Moore said CCTB directors chose to expand the board to make reaching a quorum easier. She also said the board has had as many as 36 members during her two decades with the agency.

I'm not quite sure how expanding the number of  people on the board will make getting to a quorum easier, since now at least 15 people have to show up to conduct business whereas before it was only 8, but maybe the board is privy to some math or attendance numbers of which I am not aware.

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