October 15th Legislative Council Meeting

The Legislative Council meeting begins at 10 a.m.on this Thursday, October 15th. Here the tentative schedule and the grouping of the bills. Rep. Thomas’ Bill, An Act To Prohibit Mandatory Vaccinations, is labeled LR 2136 and can be located on pg 9 of 29 of the doc titled “lrsbysubject2010”. You will notice that the tentative schedule does not specify the order of the bills or when they will be up.

When you enter the State House, go to the 2nd Floor. Walk passed the Governors Office, to the stairs. Go up that flight of stairs. Turn right or left and go up the next set of stairs to the next landing. You will be on Floor 2 1/2. The Legislative Council room has a sign on the door identifying it. It is Rm #334

We will be taking the opportunity to meet as a group to map out our future direction. 

If any of us have cameras and video cameras, please seriously consider bringing them and taping this. I want that Council to have no doubt that they are being watched and that their proceedings will be broadcasted.

I have to take a few minutes here to attempt to express my gratitude to all the help from everyone. The e-mails and phone calls, to the council and the media, the letters to the editors, the copying of the flyers, the dissemination of the flyers, the rides to events, the web posting and website creation, the calls that many of you have had with me, your patience, everything. I am so thankful to know that there are so many of you who care enough to act. I cannot express how much I need to know others are fighting too. Thank you.

And if you feel like it, these 2 can’t get enough phone calls. Hannah Pingree (867-0966) and Elizabeth Mitchell (622-2629)






LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OCTOBER 15, 2009

10:00 A.M.

PRELIMINARY AGENDA


Page

Item

Action

CALL TO ORDER

ROLL CALL

1

SUMMARY OF THE SEPTEMBER 23, 2009 MEETING OF

THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

Acceptance

REPORTS FROM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND STAFF OFFICE DIRECTORS

  • Executive Director’s Report (Mr. Boulter)

Information

  • Fiscal Report (Mr. Pennoyer)

Information

  • Status of Legislative Studies (Mr. Norton)

Information

REPORTS FROM COUNCIL COMMITTEES

  • Personnel Committee (Speaker Pingree, Chair)

(No Report)

  • State House Facilities Committee (Rep. Piotti, Chair)

(No Report)

· Budget Subcommittee (Senate President Mitchell, Chair)

(No Report)

· CSG Annual Meeting Planning Subcommittee

(Senator Bartlett and Representative Nancy Smith, Co-chairs)

OLD BUSINESS

(No action required)

NEW BUSINESS

11

Item # 1: Suggested Procedures for Deciding Legislative Bill Requests

Decision

Item #2: Consideration of Legislative Bill Requests for Introduction

In the Second Regular Session of the 124th Legislature

[Attached Binder]

Decision

13

Item # 3: Notification from the State of Maine Department of Audit that the

Single Audit of the State of Maine for the year ended June 30, 2009 is

being performed

Information

Item #4: Collective Bargaining Matters (Executive Session)

[If Needed]

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND REMARKS

ADJOURNMENT