(A) Regular meetings. Regular meetings of the Commission may be established by the Commission.
(B) Special meetings. Special meetings of the Commission may be called by the Chairperson or the County Board Chairman.
(C) Quorum. A quorum of all acting Commissioners shall consist of and be equal to a majority of active Commissioners. Any positions that may be or remain unfilled on said Commission shall not be counted as active Commissioners when determining the active number of Commissioners for purposes of a quorum. If a quorum is present, the affirmative vote of the majority of the Commissioners present at the meeting shall be the act of the Commission. At any adjourned meeting at which a quorum shall be present, any business may be transacted which might have been transacted at the original meeting. Withdrawal of Commissioners from any meeting shall not cause a failure of a duly constituted quorum at that meeting.
(D) Deadlock.
(1) Definition. For purposes of this provision, the term DEADLOCK shall mean an even division in the number of Commissioners in the transaction or management of the Commission's affairs, which the Commissioners are unable to break, and which thereby the business of the Commission can no longer be conducted.
(2) Appointment of provisional Commissioner. In the event of a deadlock of the Commissioners, the County Treasurer shall be and become a provisional Commissioner of the Commission. The County Treasurer shall serve only to break the even division of the Commissioners in the transaction or management of the Commission's affairs. Immediately after the even division among the Commissioners has been broken, the County Treasurer shall cease to serve as a Commissioner, until such time as there is again an even division in the number of Commissioners in the management of the Commission's affairs, which the Commissioners are unable to break.
(E) Participation by remote communications. A Commissioner or a member of a committee appointed by the Commission may participate in a meeting by conference telephone, electronic video screen communication, other electronic transmission, or similar communications equipment by means of which all people participating in the meeting can hear one another, each participant can communicate with all of the other participants concurrently, and each participant is provided with the means of participating in all matters before the meeting, including the capacity to propose or to interpose an objection to a specific action to be taken at the meeting. Participation in this manner constitutes presence in person at the meeting.
(F) Open Meetings Act. All meetings of the Commission will be subject to the Illinois Open Meetings Act, 5 ILCS 120/1 et seq.
(Ord. E-17-106, passed 9-27-2017)