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Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities
February 14, 2016
Commission Meeting - Telephonic
COURT REPORTER: Good morning. This is the court reporter. Can you hear me?
(No response.)
COMMISSIONER AYOUB: David, while we're waiting, could you explain what that email vote
would look like? Would that be --
CHAIRMAN SANDERS: Specifically, it would have to be similar to what we did with the
executive director, that we would call for the vote. There would be an email just to me on
the vote and it would be a vote "yes" or "no" on the full report.
COMMISSIONER AYOUB: Okay. Thank you.
COMMISSIONER MARTIN: So David, this is Pat Martin, and I'm not saying that I have read
through the process you just described, but I do want to know most of those statutorily have
to be public.
CHAIRMAN SANDERS: I will ask Amy to describe what's required.
COMMISSIONER MARTIN: Okay. I just want to make certain and I know that you're working
hard to do that, but I just want to make it clear what the statute would require of us.
CHAIRMAN SANDERS: Yeah. We can do an email vote and one of the questions will be "Is the
specific vote identified in the report?" That would be one of the questions and I believe we
have an option but Amy Templeman?
COMMISSIONER CRAMER: Yeah. That's an important question for me, too, and it needs to be
answered so I assume we will have an answer.
AMY TEMPLEMAN: Yes. The feedback that we got from GSA when we asked for an opinion on
this was that the vote did not need to be taken in a public meeting. It could be a vote that
happens by email, by an email to the Chair but that we would need to be prepared to make
that information public if it were requested or the Commissioners would decide to put the
results of the vote in the report which is an option that I know some other commissions have
chosen in the past.
COMMISSIONER COVINGTON: And my thought -- this is Commissioner Covington -- is if we do
it by email, it seems -- and they're only going to you, I would still like to know what everyone
voted. I mean are these supposed to be secret votes because it seems to me we should know
what everyone else is voting.
CHAIRMAN SANDERS: All right. Let me make sure that we devote enough time at the end of
this call to make sure that we have all of the pieces of the voting in place. I want to make
sure we get to the substantive pieces of the report so, Amy, be prepared at the end to walk
through the voting and some of the requirements and the conversations with GSA and what
our legal requirements are.
COMMISSIONER COVINGTON: Can I make one more comment about the process related to
the voting, David?
CHAIRMAN SANDERS: Yes.3
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