[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 168 (Monday, August 31, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46254-46255]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-23473]
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LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION
Sunshine Act Meeting of the Board of Directors
TIME AND DATE: The Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation
will meet on September 12, 1998. The meeting will begin at 9:00 am and
continue until conclusion of the Board's agenda.
LOCATION: Holiday Inn Civic Centre, 300 E. Ohio Street, Chicago, IL
80811.
STATUS OF MEETING: Open, except that a portion of the meeting may be
closed pursuant to vote of the Board of Directors to hold an executive
session. At the closed session, the Corporation's General Counsel will
report to the Board on litigation to which the Corporation is a party,
and the Board may act on the matters reported. The closing is
authorized by the relevant provisions of the Government in the Sunshine
Act [e.g., 5 U.S.C. 552b(c) (10)] and the corresponding provisions of
the Legal Services Corporation's implementing regulation [e.g., 45 CFR
Sec. 1622.5(h)]. A copy of the General Counsel's Certification that the
closing is authorized by law will be available upon request.
MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED:
Open Session
1. Approval of agenda.
2. Approval of minutes of the Board's meeting of June 13, 1998.
3. Chairman's and Individual Members' Reports.
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4. President's Report.
5. Scheduled public speakers:
a. The Honorable Danny Davis, Member of Congress;
b. The Honorable Mort Zwick, Justice 1st Appellate Court of
Illinois.
c. Robert Stein, Executive Director of the American Bar
Association;
d. Doreen Dodson, Chair of the American Bar Association's Standing
Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants;
e. Judy Billings, Chair of the American Bar Association's Standing
Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service;
f. James Wascher, President of the Board of Directors of the Legal
Assistance Foundation of Chicago; and
g. Dennis A. Rendleman, General Counsel of the Illinois State Bar
6. Consider and act on the report of the Board's Operations and
Regulations Committee.
a. Consider and act on proposed mechanism for setting of the
compensation level for the Corporation's Inspector General.
b. Consider and act on proposed revisions to the Procedures
Governing the Annual Performance Evaluations of the Corporation's
President and Its Inspector General.
c. Consider and act on proposed revisions to Corporation's
Communications Policy.
d. Consider and act on proposed revisions to Corporation's Policy
on the Handling of Employee Grievances Filed Against the Corporation's
President and Its Inspector General.
e. Consider and act on final rule, 45 CFR Part 1606, on Termination
and Debarment Procedures; Recompetition.
f. Consider and act on final rule to rescind 45 CFR Part 1625, the
Corporation's existing regulation governing Denial of Refunding.
g. Consider and act on final rule, 45 CFR Part 1623, on Suspension
Procedures.
7. Consider and act on the report of the Board's Finance Committee.
8. Consider and act on the report of the Board's Committee on Provision
for the Delivery of Legal Services.
9. Inspector General's Report.
10. Report on the search for someone to fill the position of Vice
President for Programs and, should the Corporation's President have a
candidate to recommend to the Board for appointment, action on that
recommendation.
11. Establish the Board's 1998 Annual Performance Reviews Committee to
conduct the 1998 annual performance appraisals of the Corporation's
President and its Inspector General.
12. Schedule the annual meeting.
Closed Session
13. Approval of minutes of the Board's executive session of June 13,
1998.
14. Briefing 1 by the Inspector General on the activities of
the OIG.
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\1\ Any portion of the closed session consisting solely of staff
briefings does not fall within the Sunshine Act's definition of the
term ``meeting'' and, therefore, the requirements of the Sunshine
Act do not apply to any such portion of the closed session. 5 U.S.C.
552(b)(a)(2) and (b). See also 45 CFR Secs. 1622.2 & 1622.3.
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15. Consider and act on the General Counsel's report on potential and
pending litigation involving the Corporation.
Open Session
16. Report by the Office of Administration and Human Resources on the
Corporation's Logo Change.
17. Public comment.
18. Consider and act on other business.
CONTACT PERSON FOR INFORMATION: Victor M. Fortuno, General Counsel and
Secretary of the Corporation, at (202) 336-8810.
Special Needs: Upon request, meeting notices will be made available
in alternate formats to accommodate visual and hearing impairments.
Disabled individuals who need an accommodation to attend the meeting
should so notify the Corporation's Office of the General Counsel, at
(202) 336-8810.
Dated: August 26, 1998.
Victor M. Fortuno,
General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 98-23473 Filed 8-27-98; 2:32 pm]
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