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Show Organization 0! Town Hall OaSled j Monday, August 2 PLANS for the inauguration of a Roosevelt Town Hall were completed this week with the announcement that the first meeting will be - held Monday, August 2 at 8 p. m. in the American Amer-ican Legion barracks. Organizational factors will be considered but will not lake up the full time of the opening session. ses-sion. The election of a permanent chairman, the naming of a secretary, sec-retary, parliamentarian and ser-geant-at-arms will make up the earlier minutes of the meeting. The adoption of a few simple rules governing the functions of the Roosevelt Town Hall will finish the business of organizing the public forum. The matter of selecting subjects sub-jects of community importance for public discussion at subsequent subse-quent Town Hall meetings will be brought up for joint consideration, consider-ation, and a tentative schedule of-monthly topics arranged. The thought behind the proposal pro-posal to ask for suggestions on vital community problems is a follow through of the whole idea of the Roosevelt Town Hall, namely regular public gatherings gather-ings to examine community problems through the medium of public discussion. Roosevelt citizens, citi-zens, therefore, will determine at the outset what issues should be included on the agenda. i i i SOME suggestions have already al-ready been offered including. Inter - Community Cooperation, Housing, Zoning, Roosevelt's Water Wa-ter Problem and Sources of City Revenue." Also at Monday's meeting, a regular date for Town Hall sessions ses-sions will be determined. In this instance as in all others governing govern-ing the operations of the forum, public agreement will be the ruling rul-ing factor. The most recent idea with respect re-spect to conducting the sessions and one meeting with general approval ap-proval is that the permanent chairman will select a participant partici-pant from the floor at each forum for-um to serve as chairman during the evening's discussions. In all probability the first regular meeting of Roosevelt Town Hall at which a particular issue will be' offered for consideration con-sideration will follow on the heels of Monday's organizing assembly. as-sembly. - |