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1967-69; Don Hummel as a mayor member in 1959-61
and a public member in 1962-64; Price Daniel as a public
member in 1967 and a Federal member from 1967 to
early 1969; Abraham Ribicoff as a governor member in
1959-61 and Federal member in 1961-62; and Anthony
Celebrezze is a mayor member in 1959-62 and a
Federal member from late 1962 to late 1964. One
person-Edwin Michaelian-served on the Commission
twice in the same capacity: as a county representative in
1959-61 and again in 1969.
Two Commission members-both Californians-died
in office: Clair Donnenwirth, one of the original
members, county supervisor from Plumas County passed
away in July, 1965; Arthur Selland, mayor of Fresno,
passed away in December, 1963 shortly after appointment
to the Commission. Four others died subsequent
to their membership. Former Labor Secretary Mitchell,
State Senator Barrett of New York State; Edward
Connor, Wayne County Michigan Supervisor and James
Pollock, a public member and the first Vice-Chairman of
the Commission.
During the decade the Commission has held 34
meetings. Differences in attendance show up clearly
from category to category. The local government representatives
consistently have appeared to attach great
importance to attendance at Commission meetings. Both
mayors and county officials have had at least one
representative at every meeting, and three-fourths of the
time there was 100 percent attendance of the entire
membership in those categories. The overall attendance
ratio for county officials was 88 percent' and for
mayors 81 percent.
The ratio for State legislators was 80 percent; on
two recent occasions, however, none of the State
legislative members was present. This record is almost
matched by that of public members, at 77 percent. At
least one public member has attended every meeting.
The worst attendance record falls to representatives
of the Executive Branch; however, this has varied over
the ten-year period. Although in most cases the cabinet
head has sent a representative, in 16 out of the 34
meetings no voting representative of the Federal agencies
appeared. However, this was concentrated in the period
from May, 1960 through October, 1962. Of the 23
meetings held since that date only seven had no
Executive Branch voting representative. The overall
1This figure is a ratio of members present to the total
number of meetings possible if all members from that group had
attended all meetings. Allowance is made for the occasional
periods when the delegation was not at the full strength allowed
by the statute, owing to death, resignation, expiration of term of
office and so on. Although members are permitted to send
representatives to present their views on matters under discussion,
these representatives cannot vote.attendance rate is 25 percent; five of the 16 cabinet
members named to the Commission over its ten-year life
never attended a single meeting. It must be added,
however, that the record here is improving. One factor
causing low attendance of cabinet members has been the
large proportion of Commission reports addressed
strictly to State-local relations and involving no significant
Federal question.
Almost as scarce at Commission meetings have been
the governors-on six occasions none was present. Their
long-term attendance record is 37 percent.
U.S. Senators and Representatives, considered together,
show an attendance record of 43 percent.
Congressmen are seen much more often than Senators,
however, and one Congressman, in fact, has maintained
an 82 percent record.
After initial staffing of the Commission was completed,
the personnel strength remained relatively fixed
over the decade, growing from 29 authorized positions
in Fiscal Year 1961 to 32 in Fiscal Year 1970. Turnover
among the professional staff was moderate throughout
the period, with an average of two professional staff
people departing each year to accept other employment.
CHANGES IN COMMISSION MEMBERSHIP
AND STAFF
1969
Several changes in Commission membership occurred
during 1969 occasioned by expiration of terms,
State and local government representatives not running
for re-election and consequently going off the Commission
when their State or local terms of office were
completed, and the advent of a new National Administration
with three new Federal Executive Branch
representatives and the appointment of new public
members as the terms of previous members expired.
Robert E. Merriam of Chicago, President of University
Patents, Inc., who had served as Deputy Assistant
to President Eisenhower with responsibilities for intergovernmental
relations and who had served in varying
capacities in local, county, and State government, was
appointed a public member in late October and was
designated by President Nixon as Chairman of the
Commission, succeeding Farris Bryant of Florida whose
term as a public member expired in October. The
President designated Richard G. Lugar, mayor of Indianapolis,
as Vice Chairman-Mayor Lugar having been
appointed to the Commission to succeed Neal Blaisdell
of Honolulu, who had retired from his office as mayor at
the end of 1968.
Also in late 1969 the President appointed Howard
H. (Bo) Callaway of Georgia as a public member
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